Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Warm Up / Kick Development / Defense Part 3 – Line Work (Midfielders/Forwards/Backs) The last portion of training is now the games portion which allows to playeres to put into a competitve situation all the different information they’ve taken in and processed during the session so far. If you’ve designed...
Part 1 – Introduction Part 2 – Warm Up / Kick Development / Defense At this point we’re about 30 – 35mins into the session and it’s time to break into groups. Grouping your players into their specific lines that they’ll most likley play in is all part of the stream lining approach as well...
Let’s look at the first 3 parts of the session and my thoughts on each of them as well as the specific training drills I would use, being: Warm Up Kicking Development Defense WARM UP You’ve got 180mins total time to train each week at 90mins per session. Not long really when you need to...
Late last year with the uncertainly around the lifting of restrictions here in Melbourne, coupled with my then-team not having a committed senior coach at the time, I put together an 8 session pre-Xmas training plan if on the off chance that we still didn’t have a coach yet needed to get back into training....
Part 1 – Training on the Edge Introduction Part 2 – Training on the Edge Kick Development Part 3 – Training on the Edge Decision Making Today we have a look at training on the edge in regards to the psychological co-active, or mental strength, but just a quick reminder of what training the edge really means...
Part 1 – Training on the Edge Introduction Part 2 – Training on the Edge Kick Development Today we have a look at training on the edge in regards to decision making but just a quick reminder of what training the edge really means which is “training a player at a specific level that lies...
A quick recap from the introduction yesterday that refers to training on the edge as “training a player at a specific level that lies just above or below their level of capability.” Here’s a quick way you can train kicking development in each and every player within a team training setting. Here’s what the basic...
Every player has their own strengths and weaknesses and as a coach it’s our duty to build on those strengths and develop those weaknesses. Knowing how 99% of team training operates at the local/amateur level with everyone doing the same drill at the same time then we’re probably not attending to the strengths and weakness...
Earlier this week I posted a presentation video titled 10 Steps to Developing Training Drills Through Your Game Model. In it it provided you with some general guidance on what a game model entails, how you go about developing it and then how it can drive what you train and how you train it. It’s...
I’ve harped on about game model’s for ages now and I’ll keep doing until every coach from division 8 under 12’s to AFL premiers has one. It’s greatest use is how it organises not only your game plan, but how you teach it and that trails through to how you can train far more effectively...