GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE

The psychological co-active is the most underutilised co-active which needs to change if you want fully developed players. but it’s hard to quantify which is probably why it doesn’t get the attention it should. To build the psychological co-active for each individual player, coaches need to set aside time to get to know players on...

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KICKING DECISION MAKING TRAINING DRILL

This is a simple kicking skill and decision making under pressure scenario that can use anything from 6 – 10 players per group. It requires you to go on demand, not having view of the the marking options, not viewing how the defense has set up, to find and make the right decision and to...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – PHYSICAL CO-ACTIVE

This post will look at some lesser known aspects of the physical co-active which goes a lot further into the hole then a 2km time trial as well as the ridiculously underutilised psychological co-active – an area at local/amateur level that can have perhaps the greatest affect on your team and players performance then anything...

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HILL SPRINTS PROGRAM

Hill sprints have been a staple of elite athletes since the dawn of time, purely because of their simpleness – find a hill and run up it! Perhaps the best thing about hill sprints is that it can be used as a preparatory tool for high speed/velocity running as it trains the action and thus...

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EVASION/DECISION MAKING TRAINING DRILL

A training drill involving: Clean Hands Evasion Decision Making Awareness Basic Rules Number each handballer/tackler on the outside who can shift positions each round Use 2- 3 less balls than handball/tackling numbers so the player out the front has to find a spare man without a ball After 5 – 10secs (I said 15secs in...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – CLUB/TEAM CULTURE

Successful teams possess high culture values and more importantly, follow through on them in good and bad times. To do this you must: Create an identifiable culture anchored by unshakable beliefs and values View problems as opportunities Get comfortable being uncomfortable Refuse to accept nothing but the best which is often what you’ll get when...

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TEACH ANYONE TO KICK TRAINING DRILL/S

I’ve coached Auskick for 4 years and obviously have put my own son through his paces in regards to footy training but I’ve always been a little stuck on teaching kicking from an absolute zero base. I’m a pretty good kick personally but it’s one thing being able to do something and then to be...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TREAM PREPARATION – 4 CO-ACTIVES

One of the major driving themes of the Game Changer book is the 4 co-actives being: Tactical Technical Psychological Physical Every singular action in any sport involves these 4 aspects so it stands to reason that you must expose your players to all of them in training to prepare them for game day. TACTICAL Tactical...

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LOWER BODY STRENGTH PROGRAM

Just over 4 years ago I did a little post on Nat Fyfe’s body transformation, especially his legs, from his first 4 – 5 years in the AFL system, and had won his first Brownlow Medal the year prior to that. In a game that requires speed, endurance, strength and resiliency from injury/collisions, a strong...

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GAMECHANGER ELITE PLAYER/TEAM PREPARATION – TEAM DEFENSE

There’s not a lot of man-to-man defense in AFL or local/amateur footy anymore with the emphasis moving to a team defense through the use of zones and compression of space in your won forward line. That being said there are still times that defenders can caught in 1-on-1 situations but these days it is minimised...

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