FOOTY TRAINING FALLACIES THAT NEED TO GO

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

I started playing footy in grade 4, while not turning 8 until after that season with a birthday in late September, in under 14’s as there was no younger age groups in country Victoria back in 1988! Between then and now I had 4 years out of football after moving to Melbourne then started back...

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GAME/TRAINING SCENARIOS – WHAT TEMPO OUT OF DEFENSIVE 50?

by swans05, posted in Game/Training Scenarios

This is a scenario that presented itself from the AFLW Grand Final this past weekend and has multiple game fundamentals involved in it, and when I say fundamentals I don’t mean kick, mark and handballing, but actual fundamentals of team invasion sports such as space, timing and team cohesiveness. There’s more than 1 way to...

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SPORTS COACHING OPINIONS TWITTER THREAD

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

Last week, Rugby coach Dan Cottrell put this post up on Twitter asking “What opinion of yours in sports coaching will have you like this?”, along with an image of very self-satisfied cartoon character. It got a bit of traction with 97 responses to the actual post but I also saw dozens of quoted replies...

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HOW WE LEARN TO MOVE (ROB GRAY) NOTES PART 4

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

About a month ago I posted a very short excerpt from a book I had just completed titled “How We Learn to Move” by skill acquisition specialist Rob Gray and now with some AFLW winding down I can finally start posting the numerous noted I took from it. I’m sure you’ll get plenty our of the notes on their...

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AFLW GRAND FINAL GAME ANALYSIS – NORTH MELBOURNE v BRISBANE

by swans05, posted in Training Drills

With 189 clips from 73 out of 99 games in season 8 of AFLW, here’s what I saw from an absolute belter of  Grand Final. I don’t care what way you look at it, the better team always wins regardless of how many quarters they won on the scoreboard or whatever. Brisbane’s best (half of...

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DELAYED 5v5 TRAINING ACTIVITY

by swans05, posted in Training Drills

This training activity uses a delayed start meaning it will be a slow to medium paced play at most, and then encourages players to build up with precision at they can only score once they get into the scoring zone. There’s plenty of ways to utilise this so here’s the basic set up and then...

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AFLW GAME ANALYSIS: BRISBANE v GEELONG + NORTH MELBOURNE v ADELAIDE

by swans05, posted in Training Drills

2 absolute cracker prelim finals over the weekend with a combined winning margin of a measly 5pts! We could very easily be looking at an Adelaide/Geelong GF but that’s how close the top end of AFLW is, even if the drop off from about 5th down is a quite dramatic but in the end the...

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BECOME A TACKLING MACHINE

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

I received this email from a member Aussie Rules Training over the weekend: “…I’ve coached Senior Women for the last 5 years and tackling is one area I can’t seem to nail in an organised drill. I can demonstrate the technique but wondered if there was anything structured I could use?…” My quick initial response...

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HOW WE LEARN TO MOVE (ROB GRAY) NOTES PART 3

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

About a month ago I posted a very short excerpt from a book I had just completed titled “How We Learn to Move” by skill acquisition specialist Rob Gray and now with some AFLW winding down I can finally start posting the numerous noted I took from it. I’m sure you’ll get plenty our of...

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HOW WE LEARN TO MOVE (ROB GRAY) NOTES PART 2

by swans05, posted in Training/Coaching Articles

About a month ago I posted a very short excerpt from a book I had just completed titled “How We Learn to Move” by skill acquisition specialist Rob Gray and now with some AFLW winding down I can finally start posting the numerous noted I took from it. I’m sure you’ll get plenty our of...

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