Category: Training/Coaching Articles

This has literally taken me all week to put together but might be the most important coaching document a local/amateur coach could read all year, even though we’re only 6 days in! It comes from a monster document you can find here: “The forest through the trees: Making sense of an ecological dynamics approach to...

Here are some more left over notes from what I originally compiled for the level 4 – game/training scenarios membership. All notes/clips are taken from actual AFLW games from 2022 showing how things can play out in the heat of games and how much team organisation actually takes place, something severely lacking in local/amateur football...

As you’re all aware I do film reviews during the AFLW seasons which means I watch the games, take notes of what I see, go back and video the clips, edit the video then put it up but I also keep a list of every clip I take when I do each round which led...

This 2 part post are notes from an article/video posted by Doug Lemov, someone who I’m pretty sure I’ve posted about before, about a video of soccer coach Christian Lavers, who I don’t really know anything about at all! Suffice to say that after reading and watching this piece I now know that he is...

Intercept marking players are a premium in the AFL ranks and are probably even held in higher regard in local footy with more kicks being long to contested area’s compared to the AFL. It’s 1 thing to be able to take manufacture and take intercept marks through your defensive side of the game but games...

Part 2 of this cracker of a study on developing challenge-based practice design in sports coaching. High challenge can about unexpected rewards/close misses which can engage the learner Small changes for small periods of time can keep motivation high while balancing the benefits of errors for learning against their costs in motivation Performance errors can...

This is a bloody long one so it will take 2 posts to cover but as always lot of points to get the coaching-thinking juices flowing and they can also be immediately implemented in your own coaching sessions. There are 3 types of practice x practice to learn, practice to transfer to competition and practice...

“Training Activities for Current Football Practices” is a stand-alone product that uses training activities that have far more game representation, learning opportunities and transfer to games, then traditional and outdated cone to cone drills that a lot of coaches still use. To ease product navigation I have categorised each training activity of which there are over...

From the feedback receive via my emailing list and social media pages, most readers/coaches are most interested in the 2 training activity memberships. As of right now I have posted 118 posts containing training activities designed for other coaches like you, to implement in your own training sessions. These training activities have for now been...