Having barely touched a footy since we stopped footy training in February, for the last few months I’ve been running through a cycle of: Day 1 x Neural Prep Day Day 2 – Sprint Day Day 3 – Recovery Day (X Basketball shot makes in X mins) Day 4 – Upper Body Weights Day As...
Month: September 2020
4 LEVELS OF SKILL ACQUISITION
These are notes taken an article from Irish coach Phil Kearney. STAGE #1 – WHAT THE ATHLETE DOES What can you get the athlete to do Experts practice differently and enhance their own strategies via self regulation such as goal setting, task strategies, imagery, self instruction, time management, help seeking, environment structuring, self evaluation and...
DON’T ARGUE TRAINING PROGRAM
Apart from the high mark, the greatest spectacle of individual play in the AFL these days is the fend-off, or the “DON’T ARGUE.” As footy has become more and more congested and contested, being able to create some space, any space, to get an effective handball or kick away is of great importnace. ...
RESTRUCTURING JUNIOR FOOTBALL DEVELOPMENT/TRAINING
I’ve had this note about structuring junior football on my phone for 6 months now so it’s time to do something with it, although I might not make many friends with this post. For memory someone asked on social media somewhere about what to do with them at training or how to do whatever…I can’t...
PLAYER MOTIVATION + OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
These are notes taken from a 3 part article series from UK Senior Coach Developer Marianne Davies who has a lot of great articles here. Plenty of super takeaways here so make your self comfortable. The self determination theory (SDT) is made up of autonomy (a sense of control over your own life/volition), competence (being...
COACHING LANGUAGE
I’ve discussed coaching language before a little bit on this site in the past and it’s still very much a very underappreciated skill in any coaching job. What you say and how you say it can have HUGE implications on how your players interpret it. Any interaction between coach and player generally follows...
GAME MODEL – TRAINING THE MICRO MOMENTS (6 VIDEOS)
Even at local/amateur level, the focus on team defense in footy is clear to see with zones, clusters and the like. The part I want to focus on is the “team” part which means that everyone is working on conjunction with everyone else on their team but as dictated by the opposition. It’s not what...