You’ve come up with a great game model but then the questions announce themselves? How will you teach it? How will the players learn it? How will the players retain the concept? What about the mixed ability of the playing group? How can we build it robust enough to stand up in the chaos of...
A new edition of this covering training activities #192 – #2?? and as usual there’s only a quick explanation, no diagrams or images. #192 – OUTNUMBER ADVANTAGE TO OUTNUMBER DISADVANTAGE Start with 11v10 our defensive half but the opposition has a locked +1 in their defensive half #193 – TACKLING SEQUENCE 2 players...
Last week I challenged all coaches to sit down and find ways to turn their training drills (boring/zero learning) into training activities (high player engagement and involvement/high learning) in this post. STEP #1 – SESSION THEME Without a theme you’re not really going to nail any real sustainable outcomes that carry into game day so...
It was looking for shaky for the Crows after losing the 1st week of finals and it didn’t get any better, with the look of being a great system team which stacks up week after week in the regular season but lacking creativity which are the moments that turns and wins finals. The Hawks have...
After posting 171 streamline activities with just a brief written description, I’ve now probably got more diagram activities in my files that I haven’t posted, then written one’s. Today introduces the first whiteboard edition which are still streamlined but require a visual to get started, with activities #172 – #181 consisting a simple image with...
A new edition of this covering training activities #152 – #171 and as usual there’s only a quick explanation, no diagrams or images. #152 – 3 x 3v2 1 big playing area divided into 3 squares with a 3v2 offensive advantage in each square with all players locked. Goals at each end for each team...
As promised, here’s the rest of the training activities I’ve used with my senior women’s football team so far this year and to back up on previous posts, you want just enough variety to still provide enough repetition at the activities that best replicate what you want to see in games which builds adaptability. If...
Haven’t posted one of these for a while so I have a back log of training activities to post so I’ll do a 13 (13! 13!!!) today and another 15 or whatever’s left next week to catch all the way up on these. You’ll notice that a lot of them are similar in how they...
Back in late January I started a series of posts of the different training activities I’ve been using with my senior women’s team and within that came something called differential learning. No 2 kicks are ever the same in a game of footy with the multitude of constraints the game is played under such as...
I haven’t posted one of these for a while so just remember that these training activities simply have a brief description and that’s it – no images, diagrams and pictures to accompany them. Let’s get to activities 132 – 151. #132 – 2 x 5v4 The play starts with a kick out from the goal...