I love watching how teams from all different levels train and how the different aspects can be added into my personal and my team's training.
We probably got there after the initial warm up and stayed for about 45mins and here's what I saw.
DRILL #1 - LANEWORK
Just your basic lanework here with 4 or 5 lanes.
As you would expect the skills were ridiculously good!
What I did notice was that after marking the spot up kick, every player took 3 or 4 real fast momentum steps before kicking, even though the groups were only 20m apart.
I suspect this is done to get the kick to the destination as quick as possible which is what you need to break up defensive zones, not kicks with too much height, and thus too much time in the air.
DRILL #2 - DIAGONAL LANEWORK
Same thing but you kick to the diagonal group now as indicated the video above.
This changes up the kick a lot but keeps the very same fundamentals of the kick in tact from the previous drill.
I added the extra bits onto the lanework drill myself in the video above.
DRILL #3 - UP AND BACK NO DEFENSE
The list was split in to 2 teams, Yellow v Blue but I'm not sure what the mix was (seniors v reserves etc) but it doesn't matter anyway at this level where everybody is exceptionally skillful.
The objective of this drill was for each team to simply transition the ball from back to forward and immediately switch to get the ball back from back to frowards again so up and back.
Each group had their own ball and used chip kicks, medium switches and spot up kicks to move the ball.
It was't a race between teams either, they just had to have clean skills from goal to goal to goal - which they did.
DRILL #4 - UP AND BACK AGAINST DEFENSE
Staying in their yellow and blue teams they performed the same drill but no one team was offensive and the other was defense.
Again the ball had to go from one to the other and back again but this time the defensive team would apply token pressure and the offensive team would stay offensive for a period of time before having a quick break and switching roles.
DRILL #5 - STOPPAGE AGAINST DEFENSE
Still in the yellow and blue teams now they would simply start the ball where the coach said whether it be a kick out like they had just been doing, or a stoppage on either wing.
The coach would usually nominate who wins the clearance and then they would kick it into their forward 50 where most of the tie the opposing team was allowed to mark the ball and then they had to bring it out out defense, move it forward, take a mark and have a set shot at goal.
The opposing team would need to spread from the contest during the clearance but then immediately shift into defense when the opposite team marked the ball.
At this point they'd start from somewhere else on the ground and so on.
If the ball was turned over then the defensive simply dropped the ball on the ground, the offensive picked it up and the drill continues from a stoppage kick.
What most people might find most interesting was that there were absolutely zero HATS to guide the players, which is something local/amateur footy needs to try and implement to have carryover to game situations.
It's hard to do because of the wide variety of skill levels, fitness abilities and game sense at L/A levels but if you can find a way to somehow implement it into your team's training I'm sure it will pay off come a Saturday - even if it's just 5 - 10mins worth with just your senior group and top end reserves players to keep the drill flowing without too many skill errors.
I actually hope to get down some games this year but geez that Newport winter wind is a mood killer!
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