INTRODUCING/TEACHING TACTICS

I've come to the personal realisation and opinion that everything starts with the tactical co-active.

From a technical standpoint there will be specific kicks and handballs that you need to be able to do in each tactical game moment with the prime example being an in-board kick that needs to be low, flat and hard with anything being outside of that bandwidth flirting with danger of being intercepted by the opposition.

From a psychological stand point, knowing what type of skill's you need specifically in this situation and then training them accordingly will provide players with confidence in those situations.

From a tactical stand point already knowing where you're meant to go and that there will be a teammate where you expect them to be makes decision making easier and thus, faster.

From a physical standpoint with less psychological stress comes less perceived physical stress so players will feel less fatigued for longer throughout games.

So you'll end up with players who will be able to make the correct decision quickly, with great and variable skill level under less fatigue more often than the opposition.

Sounds like a winning formula, yeah? 

This is how you can go about teaching tactics of which I'll use a switch kick in the backline for an example.

One of our main tactics in the seniors last year was "in 1 way and out the other" which was a huge driver for our winning premiership in a division 4 competition where huge running distances aren't seen to often so if you expand the ground than you'll find a lot of space to work in at some point.

In the ressies though the coach and I just couldn't get the players to do with as much frequency and thus success as the seniors were able to do it and we get done in the first week of finals when we probably shouldn't have.

We tried to train it up in the back end of the season but waited too long and a lack of continuity of layers throughout the season didn't help either.

We did make strides when we wanted to though in the only final we played we goaled after marking deep in their backline and doing exactly what I'm about to lay out below but on a majorly windy day the confidence to do that again just wasn't there.

Here's a sequence you can use to teach tactics to make a bit easier and less daunting for you and you're players.

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