I am a big fan of the stand man on the mark rule and if you have the ball and can’t move off the mark then what’s the advantage of even having the ball? I’ve got on files maybe 7 – 10 different ways I’ve seen players exploit the rule and/or use it to their...
These points come from a study I read during the week which is based on Soccer but transfers fully to any team sport with relatively high player numbers per team such as footy, soccer, rugby etc. Read through to the end to get some usable tips on how to make small sided games work for...
GAME MOMENT – North Melbourne Open Play Forward 50 Entry PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Open Play Transition Offense GROUND LOCATION – North Melbourne Forward 50m Line GAME VIDEO – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
These points come from Harjiv Singh who works in performance and development at the Orlando Magic in the NBA but also does a heap of stuff in the motor learning space and is what this focuses on. A skill can be practiced continuously (massed) or with rest-pauses/interpolated skill learning (distributed practice) where distributed practice has...
When any football player, but especially a junior football player goes to football training, they are going to learn. The activities that a coach designs and uses for their players is the content. How that content is being taught/interpreted by the players depends on how delivery that content and how you have them try and...
GAME MOMENT – West Coast Free Kick Center Square Ball Up PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – Center Square Ball Up GROUND LOCATION – Center Circle GAME VIDEO (start of video) – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
I’ve always got about 200 pages to catch up on reading wise and today I got to this Twitter post that I copied into my to-read files from soccer coach Tom Hartley who asked the question in the title. Like the players we coach, us coaches are also expected to upskill and improve on what...
My 11yr old is playing under 12’s this year for his 8th consecutive year of footy comprising of 4 years of Auskick and now his 4th year of under aged football, including the year off in 2020. Junior football is a bloody tough gig at the moment with youth participation numbers at best maintaining but...
GAME MOMENT – Geelong Kick Out PREVIOUS GAME MOMENT – West Coast Behind GROUND LOCATION – Opposition Goal Square GAME VIDEO – TRAINING SCENARIO VIDEO –...
I’ve managed to score a coaching gig at one of the grammar schools in Melbourne for term 2 and I’m pretty pumped about it. I’ll be 1 of 2 coaches of the senior 2nds team for the school but it’s a pretty quick turnaround with induction on Tuesday then training on the students first day...