Earlier this week I posted a presentation video titled 10 Steps to Developing Training Drills Through Your Game Model. In it it provided you with some general guidance on what a game model entails, how you go about developing it and then how it can drive what you train and how you train it. It’s...
Players Required: 35 – 40 in total (but alter numbers and area size to fit your training numbers) Balls Required: 3 in total Space Required: 65 x 45m Drill Level: Easy to Moderate Pretty simple here. Drill #1 – 4v4 handball in the smaller 10 x 10m square that could be even smaller to be...
Local/amateur football training is extremely GENERAL where everyone does the same skill work and the same running work regardless of positional requirements. I’ll give this a pass “for now” because that’s how it’s always been done but from now on it’s not good enough and coaches need to do better. With time being maybe the...
I’ve posted plenty of Rondo progressions before and here are some more. Rondo drills are easy to set up and easy to constrain so training doesnlt need to be stop start to reintroduce totally different drills for 2hrs. You could use 3 – 5 layers for the single set up for agood 20 – 30min...
When you’re the single coach in charge of 30 – 40 players at once, training drills that can be used in a multitude of ways and thus requiring just the initial set up of that drill, is a life saver. Between having players go out to drills, come back in, have a drink and “do...
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...
Kicking is a general skill. Being able to perform specific kicks is a specific skills. All game models at any level of footy will require the use of specific kicks to carry it out. This all stands to reason that if you need to use specific kicks for specific reasons (i.e. to fulfill your game...
Here is a list that I’ll hopefully keep up to date of all posts from the Training Drills section: STRAIGHTENING UP KICKING DRILL (solo skill) HANDBALL TOUCHES (partner skill) KICK TO KICK WITH PURPOSE (small group skill) RONDO TRAINING DRILL (small sided game + team training) TEACH ANYONE TO KICK TRAINING DRILL/S (solo skill) EVASION/DECISION...
Players Required: 20 (9/side + 2 extra’s) Balls Required: 1/group Space Required: 70m to goal line Drill Level: Moderate Here it is: https://aussierulestraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Zone-Kickout-Transition.mp4 The ability to layer your drills and then make them “multi-focused” is probably the holy grail of team training at the local/amateur level where more competitive games can be played but at...
Players Required: 6 Balls Required: 1/group Space Required: 60 x 30m Drill Level: Easy to Moderate I took part in the AFLHP Coaching Advanced Certificate in Coaching Fundamental AFL Skills course this week and Austin who ran the course, agrees with my view of just how poor a drill lanework is but if you’re not...