Picking right up from yesterday… POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT YEAR With a shortened season and also a potential partial playing list maybe it gives you the perfect time to try something you’ve always wanted to try but always “having to win” stopped you from doing so. This could relate to anything from training to games to off-feild...
Month: April 2020
FOOTY POST COVID-19 PART 1 (FREE CONTENT)
With the ever-hopeful impending commencement of local/amateur footy somewhere in the not-to distant future, here are my thoughts on bringing your footbal club back to its regular programming under unprecedented circumstances. A lot of the following issues aren’t new by any stretch but this pandemic has really put a spotlight on what the true deficiences...
FOOTY SECRETS #10 – DECISON MAKING DURING CHAOS (14 VIDEOS)
Earlier in this series we looked at how improving your vision and the amount of information you take in and compute can dramatically improve your decison making and now we put it into practice. To quickly touch on what goes into clean, fast and efficient decision making you need to have the ability to react...
FOOTY SECRETS #9- DEVELOP A GAME MODEL
I’ve been ranting about game models for a while thanks to Fergus Connolly and they are used extensively at elite level in various capacitites and if and when I coach I’ll definitely be implementing one regardless of the grade or age level. We all know of how Richmnond have a specific game plan that they...
FOOTY SECRETS #8 – CLEAN HANDS
In 2017 Sydney Swnas premiership coach Paul Roos released a book called Here It Is mostly detailing his rebuilding of the Melbourne Football Club of whicvh I did 3 different posts on. I specific comment I remember from the book was one of the first things he wanted his players to be extremly good at...
FOOTY SECRETS #7 – WATCH/STUDY THE GAME
2004 was my last season back in the country before moving to Melbourne where I had 4 years off from playing football of any kind. In that time I watched so much footy is was ridiculous. From all that watching I unconsciously picked up/learnt many 1%er type aspects of footy that when I returned to...
FOOTY SECRETS #6 – OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE BODY
Is this really a secret? I dunno but it is still lacking in players at all levels, including the AFL at times. I feel I’m in a pretty good position to comment on this being a left footer but also being pretty good on both sides of the body in kicking and handballing. I’m also...
FOOTY SECRETS #5 – IMPROVE VISION TO IMPROVE DECISON MAKING
To make the right decisions in congestion you need the following: Clean and fast ball handling and disposal skills To know where your teammates are or where they will be To know where the opposition To be able read cues from the opposition so you can predict their movements These can all be developed individually...
FOOTY SECRETS #4 – BE ACTIVATED
This is quite hard to explain quickly but here goes… Be Activated is a treatment developed by South African physio Douglas Heel of which I caught wind of back in 2014. Here’s the quickest way I can explain how it works. Under stress your body starts to go into survival mode the further away you...