Here’s another dose of training exercises I’ve used with my women’s senior team during our pre-season so far. Numbers are still fluctuating because it was January which is very early for most girl’s to be really deep in thinking about footy, up until the Australia Day weekend many are still in holiday mode even if...
I read a study summary on kicking assessment which led me to this older study on Aussie Rules Football specifically titled “The Development of a Field Based-Kicking Assessment to Evaluate Australian Football Proficiency”. It challenges the current kicking test used at the AFL Draft Combine and provides an evidence-based alternative assessment. I posted about this...
We’ll all head down to footy training tonight and I bet we see a lot of this: A lap Some dynamic stretching in lanes Some strides in lanes Some handball in lanes Some kicking in lanes All linear in nature and all geared towards warming up the physical component of football, just 1 of the...
The girls and I have completed 7 training sessions so far and it’s all been great so today I’ll go through some of the training activities that we’ve performed (not real important) and the why and how’s behind them (the most important). I covered off a ground ball progression a couple of weeks ago which...
I think we’re all well-aware of the collective excellence of the All-Blacks culture on and off the field and I picked up this book from the op-shop a little while ago and here are my notes from it with PLENTY of takeaways for individuals and teams alike. Only by knowing yourself can you become an...
Yesterday I posted about task simplification and all the why’s, what’s and when’s around it and today we get to the how with a real-world example I used this week with my senior women’s team. For a bit of background, we did some game-sim the session before without any real instructions from me except the...
Traditional skill acquisition practices goes something like this, using kicking as an example: 1 – Stationary kicking to a stationary target 2 – Cone-to-cone kicking drills 3 – Games There might be some game-based practice somewhere between stages 2 and 3, but it’s still not as prevalent as it should be so let’s get to...
These notes come from Soccer coach Bernat Mosquera who has some great threads on his Twitter page and is definitely worth a follow. Giving feedback/correcting mistakes also act as major constraints for player performance because what a coach says to a player will then also dictate where they look, what they look for and that...
Score source stats from the 2024 AFL season showed that Port Adelaide averaged the highest point total average in the league at 6.3pts/game and they also reached the highest single game total of 26 points. For added context, the 5th placed team,the Western Bulldogs averaged 5.5pts/game and Sydney 13th at 3.3. So as far as...
My new team I’m in charge of is a rebooted team but is essentially a start-up with no carry over of players from the initial team from pre-Covid. We have solid numbers but a lot of beginners at football but we’re still aiming to grade ourselves into division 2 if we possibly can, otherwise division...