Yesterday was part 1 in this series featuring 6 passing drills that you could use immediately at training tonight or later this week. With passing drills being the feature of the week here’s another 8 drills to put in your toolbox. Remember that there is only limited learning attained from passing/cone to cone drills so...
I know I’ve blabbered on about how crap cone to cone drills (or passing drills as I’ll call them from now on) are for a while but there is still a place for them, it’s just that you shouldnlt really rely on them to transfer into games very much so if that’s all you’re doing...
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...
This is the first of my ACL/Women’s Football related posts in the last few years to gove you an idea of my initial thoughts on the subject then and how they’ve been shaped since then. The posts over the next few days (as I’ve ended up making this a women’s football week) will all have...
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...
Last week I ran some strength and conditioning stuff for my DFS session focusing on change of direction. Change of direction has a huge technical component to it if you want to be able to get from cone A to cone B the fastest to win the ball or get to the opposition with the...
This training drill can be used directly after your physical warm up to get the balls moving and also to get your players zoned in. It is also a great training to layer, meaning you can start it small and easily make it longer to suit both handballing and kicking without having to alter the...