FOOTY TRAINING FALLACIES THAT NEED TO GO

 

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 up again until now.

I'm 45 now so that's 33 out pf the last 376 years I've been actually playing football, while doubling that up with coaching in the last 4 or 5 years or so.

That's a lot of games, a lot of training sessions and a lot of coaches so its safe to say I've seen and heard it all from Auskick (coordinator for 2 years) right up division 1 football (coached 1 year).

As the game progresses in how it's played at all levels - even at the junior levels - the one thing that hasn't changed but holds the teams and players back more than they should be, is language.

The language around footy and the cliches still used today that originated last century, rarely line up with today's version of football.

One of the reasons there is an AFL v AFLW supporter battle is the use of language and maybe more importantly, tone, used by coaches towards their players with "yelly" coaches not really having a place in the game at any level anymore, as with the rise of dozens of other sports and outside interests, players no longer have nothing else to do with their friends except sport - they can simply all go off and play Fortnite together instead.

Teams in the past might have been ultra successful with this coaching style, but most coaches these days would agree that it was in spite of the coaching, not because of it.

Today I'll present 4 of the 10 fallacies of footy training that need to go, why they should go and what you can do or say instead.

#1 - DON'T REST YOUR HANDS ON YOUR KNEES, PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD"

#2 - TURNOVER WHEN THE BALL HITS THE GROUND

#3 - FOCUSING ON OUTCOMES OVER PROCESSES

#4 - FIRST OPTION IS ALWAYS THE BEST OPTION

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