Category: Training/Coaching Articles

The Pies are hot right now and after beating the Dees yesterday, have now entered the 8 and Jack Crisp gave some saucy info on their ball movement while being interviewed by On the Couch last night that I thought I’d clarify for those interested. Here’s the interview: https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/video-1655180417.mp4 Crisp highlights 4 aspects in the...

In this series we’ve look at how to optimise your coaching through things like fishtanking, the OODA Loop, player problem-solving frameworks and a constraints-led approach which brings us to the question, what’s the best way of implementing this? Enter small sided games. We’ve touched on some of things you should be doing when running small...

So far in the last week we’ve looked at fishtanking, the ooda loop and player problem-solving in a move to get us coaches to develop more iron clad frameworks around what we do to ensure sustained player development and retention. Today we look at using the constraints led approach to player development which is pretty...

In my opinion, one of the biggest, if not the biggest thing missing from local/amateur football, are framework/loops. Last week I posted about the OODA Loop and how that can be used to up your coaching level and today we’ll look a player driven framework which would usually be developed with a coach around a...

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...