Category: 20 Game Sense Drills Vol 1

This is a progression from the basic Rondo Drill posted a few weeks back and one we use at DFS a fair bit with our younger groups but it holds up for any age group/ability. This Rondo variation trains: Clean Hands Creating/Utilising Space Game Simulated Change of Direction Perception-Action Coupling (most important) All you need...

If there’s 1 mission in my life worth fulfilling it’s to eradicate the endless laps footy teams do at training before, during and after training. It’s boring, it’s useless and it’s taking prescious training time, of which local/amateur teams already struggle with, away from far more productive things they could be doing like skill and/or...

My senior team from 2019 built it’s entire game plan off of our defense and it paid dividends, playing off in and winning the Grand Final. At low to mid levels of football a rock solid team defence will be near impossible for opposing teams to play against because of the lower grade of skill...

This is a simple kicking skill and decision making under pressure scenario that can use anything from 6 – 10 players per group. It requires you to go on demand, not having view of the the marking options, not viewing how the defense has set up, to find and make the right decision and to...

A training drill involving: Clean Hands Evasion Decision Making Awareness Basic Rules Number each handballer/tackler on the outside who can shift positions each round Use 2- 3 less balls than handball/tackling numbers so the player out the front has to find a spare man without a ball After 5 – 10secs (I said 15secs in...

I’ve coached Auskick for 4 years and obviously have put my own son through his paces in regards to footy training but I’ve always been a little stuck on teaching kicking from an absolute zero base. I’m a pretty good kick personally but it’s one thing being able to do something and then to be...

A lot of footy we practice is played with mates in a non-structured way which is fine but if you can add some purpose into what you’re doing than you can still have all the fun you want to trying all the kicks you want to, but with a little extra intent that can have...

The shape of our ball is like no other so being able to grabn the ball and grip it how you like in a split second is essential to shape skill development. Here’s a quick handball warm up you can use with players of any age and ability and all you need is 2 players...

Here’s a simple kicking skill drill you can do on your own or with a mate or 2. The main focus is to straighten up your body (hips/shoulders) towards your target which is implicitly inserted into this drill by the use of the initial cones in the first video below. Also in my video series...