Category: Training/Coaching Articles

One of my major finds in Twitter-world 2022 has been basketball coach Alex Sarama and this post is based off some of his current content on the fundamentals of basketball and in sport in general, why coaches all over glue themselves to the fundamentals of their and why they should embrace the complete opposite of...

Last week I posted 10 gems from coach Dan Abrahams who does a heap of work around the psychological aspect of performance, the most underutilised area of sport performance in local/amateur sport. Hopefully you were able to use some of the pointers from last week and here’s some more to get your psychological juices flowing....

Round 1 is up for most of us tomorrow and between now and then you still have the chance to become a better player via this post. Mindset could not be anymore under utilised in local/amateur football but can have a dramatic effect on your game day performance on an individual level. If you can...

So far this week we’ve looked a study of how team cohesion shapes how you can use the ball and how that pertains to scoring and then a quick look at some quarters of football from round 1 and what types of kicks were used and who they were kicking to. Even though it was...

In my previous post I looked at a study recently released that aimed to find correlations between collective behavior and team performance in regards to how tactical, technical, physical and psychological actions affect the outcome of AFL games. One of it’s conclusions was that it may be beneficial to focus on optimising attacking via low...

A few weeks ago my Twitter feed was blessed by this post from a skill acquisition specialist from Sydney Job Fransen. The post was about a study he was a part of conducting with a bunch of others called “A Holistic Analysis of Collective Behavior and Team Performance in Australian Football via Structural Equation Modeling”,...

Being a Sydney Swans supporter and the latest episode of The W podcast by Sam Lane and Sharni Norder being released, I gave it a listen last night as I have a few of the episodes so far – it’s an excellent podcast actually coming from a non-podcast listener. I wanted to hear from Scott...

This is an issue at most levels of football really where once we get the ball it seems there is no other option but to go forward as quick as we can. This stems from we do at training where there are no defenders and thus constraints to limit the options we can do with...

Imagine being a local/amateur football coach and having in your possession a pretty revolutionary style of footy that is literally played by 1 football team in all of Aussie Rules Football, and that your club could be the 2nd. Just yesterday I read this (paraphrased) quote on Twitter: “…the biggest barrier to adopting modern approaches...