The best round of football for the year, Preliminary Final round is upon us and by jeez it should be a cracker so I thought I would gather some notes from my files in regards to the different aspects of game day. This will be a 3 part series (Pre-Game today, In-Game tomorrow and Post-...
Category: Training/Coaching Articles
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT: HOW TO CHALLENGE YOUR PLAYERS
This is taken from an article in my files but again I didn’t note who it was by but lays out a process using an athlete-centered approach and in it they outline a basic progression of pushing your players to higher levels over and over again for continued long term development. It all starts with...
WANT TO GET DRAFTED? HERE’S HOW…
Mid last year I took part in a course ran by the Lindsay Gilbee Elite Kicking Academy and as part of that we received a talk from Simon Dalrymple. Simon was the recruiting manager behind the Bulldogs premiership team in 2016 and is now the Melbourne-based recruiter the all might Sydney Swans (KPF please Simon!)....
USING A DIGITAL VIDEO GAMES APPROACH TO JUNIOR SPORT
If you’re a parent of a child under the age of 18 then you know the addictiveness of video games in all their formats. On top of that us parents want our kids off video games but what we need to stop and think about even more is why they are so driven to them...
SKILL ACQUISITION TWITTER THREAD
Twitter has become my go-to social media platform these days and last week I stumbleed across a length thread on skill acqusition and what the biggest bang for your buck is in relation to it. Here are just some of the responses from varous coaches around the world from all different sports: Fail to learn...
ONE ON ONE FOOTBALL COACHING
In the last couple of weeks I’ve joined up as a coach on the One on One Football platform to provide private coaching to footballers of any age but 12 – 18yrs of age specifically. I believe most coaches do 1 on 1 sessions but I’m used to training small groups in my personal...
THE LEARNING PROCESS (ARTICLE + TRAINING DRILL)
Here are some notes from an article by Australian Sports Phyiso Greg Dea based here in Melbourne who has some excellent content that can be applied to most sports. This one specifically discusses the learning process and I’ve added a training drill based around this as well. Here they are: There’s a difference between performance...
THE 4 MOST IMPORTANT GAME PRINCIPLES
Below are probably the 4 most important game principles involved in any team sport, especially Aussie Rules Football. Every coach and every player needs to be familiar with each of these as it will then make things far easier when implementing your game model. They can also be used categorise different game moments which will...
PLAY WITH PURPOSE
Shane Pill is an Australian PE Teacher/Sport Coach who every coach should read up on in my opinion. Here are some notes taken from an article of his that I titled Play With Purpose in my notes but might have gone by a different name when he published as I can’t locate now! Being a...
FREE CONTENT DIRECTORY
Here’s a list of all FREE content you can find on the site: STRAIGHTENING UP KICKING (training drills) AEROBIC CAPACITY TEMPO RUNNING (training programs) MITCH ROBINSON ON HOW TO PLAY THE WING (training/coaching articles) THE TEENAGE BRAIN AND HOW YOU CAN COACH THEM (training/coaching articles) FOOTY FOCUS COURSE WEEK 1 (training programs) THE KICKING MECHANICS...