Author: swans05

Looking outside of your immediate sport, and even sport in general, can expose you to new ways to do things and earlier this week I looked at the concept of fishtanking, and once you start doing than you you now start moving in new, and better, directions for superior coaching ad player learning. The OODA...

What has fish got to with footy? Is Paul Salmon making a comeback? What do fish tanks have to do with footy? This all sounds a bit abstract but will make perfect sense in the 5mins it’ll take you to read this and will help all coaches be far more informed of what their having...

I am a big fan of the stand man on the mark rule and if you have the ball and can’t move off the mark then what’s the advantage of even having the ball? I’ve got on files maybe 7 – 10 different ways I’ve seen players exploit the rule and/or use it to their...

These points come from a study I read during the week which is based on Soccer but transfers fully to any team sport with relatively high player numbers per team such as footy, soccer, rugby etc. Read through to the end to get some usable tips on how to make small sided games work for...

These points come from Harjiv Singh who works in performance and development at the Orlando Magic in the NBA but also does a heap of stuff in the motor learning space and is what this focuses on. A skill can be practiced continuously (massed) or with rest-pauses/interpolated skill learning (distributed practice)  where distributed practice has...

When any football player, but especially a junior football player goes to football training, they are going to learn. The activities that a coach designs and uses for their players is the content. How that content is being taught/interpreted by the players depends on how delivery that content and how you have them try and...

I’ve always got about 200 pages to catch up on reading wise and today I got to this Twitter post that I copied into my to-read files from soccer coach Tom Hartley who asked the question in the title. Like the players we coach, us coaches are also expected to upskill and improve on what...