This is just a little twist on a basic half ground game with 2 even teams. Usually it works like basketball and bring the ball out of defense to the middle of the ground then you play transition offense to get it back into the forward 50 and score. Nothing extra ground breaking for this...
I’ve been posting a fair bit on the psychological aspect of performance lately and 1 thing I say a lot is that don’t just think thoughts, but write them down to make them “real”. I can almost guarantee that by writing it down, which obviously takes way longer to do then to simply think it,...
Skill development at the top of all sport pyramids and footy is no different. The ability to attain, stabillise, replicate and then add variability to those foundation skills is what seperates us from the elites. A lot of local/amateur players have endurance, speed and strength but they often alck the skill required to compete consistently...
What we have here is a drill that includes 4 specific scenario kicks used a lot during a game so is very representative of what happens on a Saturday. It combines 4 different scenarios into the single activity so players need to perform different kicks within the same drill but specific kicks that are required...
In all grades of footy, but especially youth and junior levels of football, building competitiveness and aggressiveness can be extremley hard, not that everyone HAS to have both of these qualities at those young ages but if they can start told develop them then my personal opinion is that they will be more likely to...
All sports contain 4 co-actives being psychological, physical, technical and tactical and they are all entwined where the decision you make to solve a particular problem via 1 specific co-active, is dependant on where the other 3 are at at that point in time, and this is an ever changing landscape throughout 4 quarters of...
Noone celebrates goals like one of my favourite Swannies Tom Papley and although it looks like showboating, if you were to dive a bit deeper, it’s about generating enthusiasm and celebrating small wins, both which help build great confidence within a game and throughout the entire team. And as you can see in the image...
If you’ve read anything on Dusty Martin than you’ll be well aware that he has done a tonne of work on his psychology and truly thinks of this work as going a long way to jumping up from very good player to one of the best ever. Psychology is hard to measure in a lot...
Earlier this year I did a 3 part post of Dan Abrahams tweets (give him a follow!) and I’ll go again with plenty more here. Each day I scroll through my socials then copy a bunch of content that I want to read and paste it in my files and then go back and read...
2 weekends ago after Melbourne easily dispatched of the Western Bulldogs, Christian Petraka was very honest in what they wanted to do in a post game interview with Channel 7: The biggest points I noted were: 1 – “…we wanted to trust the tackler in 1v2’s” meaning let’s not have other players rush in to...