I’ve posted about my loathing levels of cone drills plenty of times previously, yet continue to be a staple of local football at all levels and ages even with the mammoth amount of evidence that for skill development and game intelligence, they are simply awful. 4 days ago a study was released on Twitter titled...
Author: swans05
4 (+4) v 4 POSSESSION RONDO
This training activity focuses heavily on maintaining possession by utilising wide and/or central options. Start by creating 3 teams of 4 in different colors and make sure they know the focus of the activity. The scoring system is what will drive the behaviors in this activity of which I mention in the training video and...
STARTING OUT WITH A CONSTRAINTS-LED APPROACH
These points were made by various coaches to a Twitter thread by Philip O’Callaghan, a tennis coach who posts a lot about coaching with a constraints-led approach (CLA), a method I’ve also posted plenty on. Take your best 6 – 8 points from here and start your own journey with CLA and watch player engagement,...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – PRESSING FORWARDS TRIPLE LAYER
Scores from turn over is easily the largest scoring source in the AFL and I’d suspect holds true in local footy. Forcing the opposition to turn the ball over as close to your goal is the most effective way to do this as the closer to your goal you can force a turnover, the better...
4 STEPS TO EXPLOITING THE STAND RULE
This rule has been in footy for a few years now but it’s still hugely underutilised at local level which is surprising because of the affordances you can attain from it which never used to be there – it’s made the game easier to transition the ball but only if you know what you’re doing....
STUDY NIGHT – HIGH PERFORMERS
These notes are taken from a study on high performers in sport, what they look like, what they think about and what sets them apart from us normal’s. There’s a saying that says “success leaves clues” so if you’re goal as a player to improve, or a coach wanting to improve your players, then the...
TEAM CHALLENGE TRAINING ACTIVITY
Not much to this but it’s a bloody effective activity as it gives you, the coach, a chance to have your players attempt to interpret and put into play your specific strategies/tactics that you’re aiming to use in games. By having your players focus on using just 1 strategy/tactic at a time, it gives them...
GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – 5 PLAY SWITCH SCENARIOS
Usually I post the game video then the training video but I’m going a different today with these 5 outnumber scenarios. I normally leave quite a bit of bandwidth with how the scenarios can play out but these 5 are specific slices of the game with an offensive or defensive outnumber theme. The 2nd major...
LEFT OVER GOLDEN NUGGET NOTES PART 3
Here are some more left over notes from what I originally compiled for the level 4 – game/training scenarios membership. All notes/clips are taken from actual AFLW games from 2022 showing how things can play out in the heat of games and how much team organisation actually takes place, something severely lacking in local/amateur football...
IMPROVE YOUR TIME TO FATIGUE TRAINING PROGRAM
OK, you start your watch and head out for a run, get back and look at the time. A 25sec personal best over 3kms, great. You continue with this method time after time and at some point, more often sooner before later, you can’t really beat your time anymore. You can close to it, but...