Category: Training/Coaching Articles

I’ve covered this before in the last couple of years but it’s still a little, if at all, used piece of magic you can do right after you read this article. The hyperarch mechanism is something “discovered” by Chinese strength and conditioning coach Chong Xie and refers to link between fascia tensioning and elite athletic...

If you switch onto Fox Footy every now and then you’ll see a classic game or 2 and for games in the latse 90/00’s it’s hard not to notice how much bigger the players were across the board. With a more continuous game these days, but not neccesarily faster, and the need to cover more...

We moved house last week so I was a bit light on for content in what was probably the weirdest week most of us have ever been part of. The unceretainty of the AFL was changing by the hour but what is certain is that all local footy is off until at least the start...

This article popped up on my feed last week looking at AFL Queensland implementing Catapult, a GPS tech company, into it’s pathway programs. Before I start be sure to remember that I am talking from a local/amatuer football point of view, not AFL. Late last year it might have been, I saw another article on...

Here’s yet another follow up to the women’s football ACL epidemic about a month after yesterday’s post. It looks at more contact with John who attended the Latrobe Uni Women in Sport seminar that was held here in Melbourne about this time last year with several speakers from different area’s talking all things female sport....

This post was made about 18mths after yesterday’s post after another bout of female footballer ACL injuries. Geelong #1 pick Nina Morrison had just done her ACL in her first game in the AFLW and we all had the “here we go again” thoughts. In this post I link 6 articles relating to ACL injury...

Last November I made a post titled “How I Would Train A Women’s Football Team” that looked some concepts I would focus on if I was to coach a women;s football team at any level. My initial area’s of focus were to: Teach Kicking but Only to a “Good Enough” Level Get the Ball to...

During the 2019 seasons of AFLW I posted some weekly insights that of passages of play that I noticed watching the games of things done well, things done not so well and how they could be done better. I had many arrows and colorful lines in those earlier edition videos but this year I’ve dialled...

About 3 weeks ago I made a post consisting of 10 tips for improving team culture which I hope you’ve been able use or gbet something from and with club culture being so hard to attain at local/amateur level from player/admin turnover and interrupted continuity, here’s some more. By focusing on the “target” and hitting...