In my original tribute Facebook post to Kobe I touched on what he was doing in the coaching of junior players and really believe he would have changed how junior coaching is done with what he was doing and how he was doing it. It wasn’t really anything new but for someone as competitive as...
MAMBA MENTALITY BOOK EXCERPTS
I had this on my to-get list for some time and finally got it 2 days ago and read it all in 1 hit. Here are my favourite bits: “…the biggest element that changed over time, however, was I went from watching what was there to watching for what was missing and what should have...
KOBE BRYANT MAMBA MENTALITY WEEK
As you are all probably aware of, NBA great Kobe Bryant died last week in a horrible helicopter crash with 8 others, including his daughter Gianna, and I’ve been watching and reading stuff on him literally all week. I purchased his Mamba Mentality book and read in 2hrs while taking notes from it (as I...
AWAY LEAD + SQUARE UP KICK DRILL
Here’s a kicking my own club has used quite a bit and I like it mainly because it’s practises a different kick then you normally do in your warm up (kick to space for a leading player rather then a linear lead or stationary target) That drill is pretty straight forward so I’ll show that...
10 TIPS FOR IMPROVING CLUB CULTURE
We hear a lot about team culture at the elite levels of sport whether it’s the Sydney Swans Bloods Culture or Richmond’s team culture of recent years or in other sports such as the All Blacks in World Rugby and the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. At local/amateur level it’s never really given enough...
SWITCH ON WARM UP
I’ve never been a really big warm up guy personally much preferring to do my warm up as close to the game as possible. Other players like a longer warm up and that’s fine too but what is the warm up really about? Is it to warm up the muscles used in a game of...
KOBE’S ADVICE FOR ALL JUNIOR COACHES
Rule 1 – Sit Rule 2 – Watch Rule 3 – Ask Questions The complete opposite of what junior coaches do at the moment. Kobe Bryant on coaching his daughters youth team🗣 “We could win more games if we micro managed & called more plays” “We sit back, let them process & figure things out”...
DEVELOP POWER IN THE WEIGHT ROOM
Pre-season training is back for most clubs and there’s pretty much 7 – 8 weeks before practice games start and about 10 weeks until round 1 – not long really. With training being back on 2 nights per week that will take up most of your energy resources for other training and whatnot, it means...
COACHING MAVERICKS
We’ve all play and probably still play with one of them. The maverick will at times go away from “team values” as their extremely high competitive spirit can often get the best of them and they shift to a “if I don’t do this now then we’ll lose?” mentality. Christian Laettner was a NCAA superstar...
STRAIGHTENING UP KICKING PART 3
Here’s another drill variation to reinforcing the habit of squaring up while kicking, 1 of the main attractors of successful kicking that ALL great players possess and display each and every time. For this drill you’ll have groups of 5 or so, but you can do more if you don’t have enough balls to go...