The forward press defense was popularised by Richmond during their premiership years where Sydney started using it very soon after and now a bunch of clubs use it regularly.
This needs to be a full team mentality as every player needs to be all-in on this for it to work, otherwise huge holes will be visible in your team defense, and is why it might scare off more teams from using it more often.
That being said I think the advantages that it can provide your team are too good ignore so I'd definitely want it to be in my team's defensive toolbox.
Pressure from behind is possibly the "least" pressure you can apply to the ball carrier as they still have eyes on what's unfolding in front of them, space to play through and are relatively well-balanced to execute a kick or handball.
Applying pressure from in front of them disrupts them completely, taking away all their time and space to do any of this, forcing them to re-route their decision making while under in-coming physical pressure with the play in front of them blocked.
If they are able to dispose of the ball then the handball will be high and loopy, in order to get over the player applying frontal pressure, which then gives time for the next layer of forward press defense to get there and so on until they turn the ball over.
A kick disposal would also be rushed, kicked high and loopy and easily defended as well.
Above I mentioned pressure from behind and you still need it because if everyone from the defensive side of the ball simply charges forward then you're vulnerable if they make it through so the chaser's from behind still need to perform that action, but the hope is that the frontal pressure delays the opposition ball movement and they can "catch up" and apply actual physical pressure, saving defensive players from leaving their post if they possible.
Lastly, you need to determine specific triggers for when pressing forward is to happen so that there is a shared mental model of this among all teammates.
Specific language that greatly assists in teaching this includes "press forward" or simply "press", "boundary close-in" and "all-in" or "trading up".
In the 5 videos below, you'll see exactly what this can look like at different times of the game as well as the triggers for when to "go".
From here we look at video examples during different stages of play:
- Center Bounce
- Slow Closed Play
- Short Transition Moment
- Long Transition Moment
Then I provide some training activities to train it.
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