Category: Training/Coaching Articles

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activities that have far more game representation, learning opportunities and transfer to games, then traditional and outdated cone to cone drills that a lot of coaches still use.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...

The notes for this post comes from study on developing a psychological skills sequence (PSS) that I can’t relocate on the internet but I’m pretty sure there’s enough here for you to make something of it and have a crack at developing your own program for your club, team and players. If you’re going to...

I actually got these books for Xmas last year, read straight away while taking my usual notes and have only got to typing them out now. I have posted my notes from Game Changer as well as The Process 1 & 2 at the hyperlinks on each volume. These books, and Fergus himself in Twitter...

Craig McRae has been a breath of fresh air in season 2022. He’s taken a traditionally unwatchable Collingwood team and turned them into a must watch for fans of any team but more importantly, a winning team as well. Even though I’m a Swans man and we’re facing this very same team for a spot...