About 3 weeks ago I made a post consisting of 10 tips for improving team culture which I hope you’ve been able use or gbet something from and with club culture being so hard to attain at local/amateur level from player/admin turnover and interrupted continuity, here’s some more. By focusing on the “target” and hitting...
Author: swans05
CHANGE OF DIRECTION/AGILITY FOR JUNIORS
Last week I ran some strength and conditioning stuff for my DFS session focusing on change of direction. Change of direction has a huge technical component to it if you want to be able to get from cone A to cone B the fastest to win the ball or get to the opposition with the...
6 GROUP 1-2 TRAINING DRILL
This training drill can be used directly after your physical warm up to get the balls moving and also to get your players zoned in. It is also a great training to layer, meaning you can start it small and easily make it longer to suit both handballing and kicking without having to alter the...
FIXING JUNIOR FOOTBALL – IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT FOOTBALL
The problems with junior sport participation, including football, are very real. And let’s not think it’s just “juniors” either, we’re talking pre-teen and teenage participation numbers as well. 1 very crucial thing we must all remember when there is a change in how football is run at club or league level, is that it is...
GAME PLAN VIDEO PART 4 – BACKLINE + TRANSITION OFFENSE
Part 1 looked at starting positioning. Part 2 looked at what the mids and wingers do at the stoppage clearance. Part 3 looked at how your forwards position and move based off how we want to move the ball out of the stoppage. Part 4 here looks at what happens if we don’t win the...
GAME PLAN VIDEO PART 3 – FORWARDS
Part 1 looked at starting positioning. Part 2 looked at what the mids and wingers do at the stoppage clearance. Part 3 right here will look at how your forwards position and move based off how we want to move the ball out of the stoppage. If you go back to video 1 and 2...
GAME PLAN VIDEO PART 2 – MIDS/WINGS STOPPAGE CLEARANCE
Game Plan Video Part 1 looked at the starting positions to run this specific game plan from a stoppage. As stated in that post, if all players are not in the correct starting positions then there will be holes in your player and ball movement, and a turnover in a dangerous position might be on...
GAME PLAN VIDEO PART 1 – STARTING POSITIONING
I made this up late last year based on a specific but popular ball movement option of using the quarterback position at the stoppage. Utilising the quarterback player/s efficiently and effectively is a team strategy over individual, as it requires great discipline to initially set it up then also to hold your position, create the...
KOBE BRYANT – THE MAN
Kobe’s very last tweet congratulating Lebron James on passing him for 3rd all time on the NBA scoring list: Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother 💪🏾 #33644 — Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 26, 2020 Shaquille O’Neal’s son Shareef received one of if not the final text from Kobe: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12303718&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utmc_campaign=nzh_fb&fbclid=IwAR3QCgQxAJ8oVOrBf4YZp-pFUnyJt9ySCflD5dUNi8mdg-_5-RwrLv-GoWA “…Kobe:...
KOBE MAMBA MENTALITY MINDSET
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/28569694/remembering-kobe-bryant-relentless-curious-infinitely-complicated “…I could never understand, why winning wasn’t the most important thing to everyone. Why are you here then?…” https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2873343-what-made-kobe-different “…I have such a narrow focus, so I didn’t have much time to socialize at all. When I wasn’t training, I was writing and I was studying the art of writing, of film making. My...