THE 4 CO-ACTIVES OF DUSTIN MARTIN

For a while now I've been going on banging on about the 4 co-actives of performance being:

- Technical

- Tactical

- Psychological

- Physical

Every single action you perform on the footy field requires an adequacy of these 4 elements to be successful.

In this Instagram video I have a quick shot of Dusty Martin in the Grand Final against GWS- check it out:

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What a cracker of a move in traffic hey?

But even though a move like this requires some natural talent and gifts, it's definitely a by product of the 4 co-actives.

TECHNICAL

- Clean 1 grab of the footy in traffic

- Positive decision making based on the perception-action coupling of the surrounding constraints (space, opposition, teammates, environment)

TACTICAL

- Running forward of the footy (what Richmond love to do)

- Forward handball to a forward running teammate (again what Richmond love to do)

- Dusty gets it get out of the way and let him create


PSYCHOLOGICAL

- Supreme team confidence applying pressure to the opposition and then to capitalise on their mistake

- Dusty knows he 1 of the best players inside and outside so he's extremely confident in whatever situation he gets the ball in

- Dimma gives him all the confidence in the world to create whenever he gets it rather then give it off to a first option like most players do

PHYSICAL

- Great eccentric strength to stop on a dime and change direction in the middle of those 2 GWS players

- Great lower body power and body control to be able to explosively change direction and pretty much maintain pace with the ball

- Great acceleration to power into space after the change of direction

This passage of play DOES NOT happen if even 1 of these co-actives hasn't been trained up to par so for the 2020 season think about how you can train the 4 co-actives to instead of the 1, maybe 2 that we do at local/amateur level right now.