Hopefully this doesn’t seem like a Gold Coast Suns pile-on but there was some major issues with their performance last weekend where the coach David Lake even said “It’s what you’re going to do about it that matters. That’s where you can define yourself…” in the post-game presser. For the purposes of this blog all...
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AFLW INSIGHTS – ROUND 2 PART 2
ST KILDA SWITCH PLAY FAIL https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/video-1612705920.mp4 MY TAKE https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/video-1612782569.mp4 ST KILDA NO HANDBALL LINK UP https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/video-1612705940.mp4 MY TAKE There was almost an exact sequence of play in part 1 of round 2 insights except that they did give the handball and were able to break the lines of the defense. In this case the Saints...
AFLW ROUND 2 – KICK OF THE ROUND
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 – ROUND 2
We’re half way through round 2 for AFLW 2021 so here is what is probably part 1 of this week’s insights. NOTE TO AFLW PLAYERS: RUN AND CARRY https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/video-1612606579.mp4 MY TAKE In both plays here, both players, especially the Richmond player, could have ran and carried the football a lot further then they did. Vesio...
AFLW INSIGHTS 2021 – ROUND 1
A new season of AFLW means another series of AFLW Insights posts and this one has 11 peices of vision from the weekends games that I take a quick look at. I’ll post the game the vision then put my take under it in either video, image or text form. POTENTIAL ST KILDA SWITCH OF...
AFLW ROUND 1 – KICK OF THE ROUND
If you watched any AFLW over the weekend then you’ll have clearly seen that skill level has again improved across the board and once decision making and tactical prowess catched up then we’re in for a real treat. FYI, a bumper edition of AFLW Insights will drop tomorrow. Each Monday I’ll release the weekly contenders...
PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE – DAN ABRAHAMS PART 3
The 3rd and final installment of psychological co-active tips from Dan Abrahams. Cognitive Player Issues – Paying attention to cues and clues that are irrelevant/noise. Letting your mind wander. Will present as slow decision making through inexperience, inhibition through anxiety and an internal focus of attention too often. Learning – Promote learning rather than performance...
PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE – DAN ABRAHAMS PART 2
Here’s another 15 tips from Dan: Training Environment – Shapes attitude, energy and effort and each of these aren’t simply traits players have or not, they are choices the player has to display or not, and you have to bring it out of them and players will become better at choosing them in their given...
PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE – DAN ABRAHAMS PART 1
As I’ve mentioned many times before there’s 4 co-actives of performance: Tactical Psychological Technical Physical I’ve actually listed them in order of what I think is most important, especially for local/amateur football, with psychological being my number 2 behind tactical. My reasoning you ask? Tactics teach the player what to do and when. Psychological is...
TRAINING SCENARIO – FAST PLAY DEFENSE (VIDEOS)
Once you’ve devised your list of training scenarios that you think are important to be successful at to win games, then choose 1 scenario that consistently presents itself during a game to focus on at training, in this case fast play defense. The concept of defender 1/2/3 isn’t new but is probably more a case...