Category: Training/Coaching Articles

To make the right decisions in congestion you need the following: Clean and fast ball handling and disposal skills To know where your teammates are or where they will be To know where the opposition To be able read cues from the opposition so you can predict their movements These can all be developed individually...

This is quite hard to explain quickly but here goes… Be Activated is a treatment developed by South African physio Douglas Heel of which I caught wind of back in 2014. Here’s the quickest way I can explain how it works. Under stress your body starts to go into survival mode the further away you...

I’ve covered this before in the last couple of years but it’s still a little, if at all, used piece of magic you can do right after you read this article. The hyperarch mechanism is something “discovered” by Chinese strength and conditioning coach Chong Xie and refers to link between fascia tensioning and elite athletic...

If you switch onto Fox Footy every now and then you’ll see a classic game or 2 and for games in the latse 90/00’s it’s hard not to notice how much bigger the players were across the board. With a more continuous game these days, but not neccesarily faster, and the need to cover more...

Today is day #1 of the 10 Secrets of Footy that Players & Coaches Can Train in the Time Off. I forgot to add 1 secret to the list so that will actually go to 11! #1 – SPEED DEVELOPMENT I’ve harped on about developing your max speed for years and for good reason –...

We moved house last week so I was a bit light on for content in what was probably the weirdest week most of us have ever been part of. The unceretainty of the AFL was changing by the hour but what is certain is that all local footy is off until at least the start...

Last night we did a drill I’d never seen before and with some time to kill between clients this morning I wrote down some points on it. The more I wrote about it the more it represented a great meeting point between drills and scenario’s/games. Then that got me thinking that maybe you can make...

This article popped up on my feed last week looking at AFL Queensland implementing Catapult, a GPS tech company, into it’s pathway programs. Before I start be sure to remember that I am talking from a local/amatuer football point of view, not AFL. Late last year it might have been, I saw another article on...

Here’s yet another follow up to the women’s football ACL epidemic about a month after yesterday’s post. It looks at more contact with John who attended the Latrobe Uni Women in Sport seminar that was held here in Melbourne about this time last year with several speakers from different area’s talking all things female sport....

This post was made about 18mths after yesterday’s post after another bout of female footballer ACL injuries. Geelong #1 pick Nina Morrison had just done her ACL in her first game in the AFLW and we all had the “here we go again” thoughts. In this post I link 6 articles relating to ACL injury...