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Imagine being a local/amateur football coach and having in your possession a pretty revolutionary style of footy that is literally played by 1 football team in all of Aussie Rules Football, and that your club could be the 2nd.
Just yesterday I read this (paraphrased) quote on Twitter:
"...the biggest barrier to adopting modern approaches is that coaches are afraid to swap something they are comfortable with for an unknown better alternative but as sport evolves, remain married to game styles and training practices that no longer have much relevance in the modern game..." - Chris Oliver (College Basketball Coach)
This is your chance to become an innovator at your football club, league and local/amateur football in general, by installing a system that I believe can cover most, if not all, team deficiencies via the player formations on their own.
They will put you in an excellent position to cover most mistakes or at least, have an excellent chance of causing a stoppage and then a great opportunity to regain formation depending on the location of the stoppage.
These specific player formations allow you to always have players where you need them - at the ball, in front of the ball and behind the ball - at ALL times.
They involve all players all the time so everyone plays a role regardless if they have the ball or not.
Every player can made to feel they performed positively for the team even if they didn't possess the ball very much.
The team cohesion that I believe can be built through developing this system with your football team could be unparalleled as it's not reliant on elite runners, elite ball winners or even elite ball users - having those players can and will add greatly to this system, but at local/amateur level we don't always have that luxury.
Lastly, I will no doubt be adding to this as I have a look at what the Swans will be adding to this system in season 2022 + other ways I think of of how to learn, train and implement this system, and you'll have immediate access to these updates that will not be released in other form on my website, as a purchaser of this package.
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Until Sunday February 6th, you can purchase this package at the introductory price of $175 before it goes up to its regular price.
As always if you have any questions, feedback or comments on any this then please let me know as it might be handy to develop an FAQ for future holders of this package.
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You've got the ball inside your forward 50 but the opposition has a lot of players back which hinders you on 2 fronts.
Firstly your severely outnumbered so your chances of winning possession of the ball are quite slim, but in your own forward 50 we know that's not the end of the world.
Secondly, there's no room to do anything constructive with the ball even if you are able to win possession of it anyway.
The ball is hack-kicked out of the congestion by the opposition to your waiting defensive line set up behind the play (great structural coaching by the way!) but in the chaos of the game your players simply send the ball right back into the crowd, again where you're outnumbered rendering that inside 50 opportunity useless.
By going right back into your forward as quick as you can, coupled with the fact you simply kicked it right back to the spot it came from, did any of the defenders really have to, or had time to move?
No.
What can we do about it?
Give yourself just over 3mins to watch this and find out...
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NOTE - I don't want to add negative connotations to female sports and ACL injuries as there are far more sportswomen who haven't done ACL's then who have but there was recently a study that showed clinicians should stop overtreating and where 1 session of high quality education, advice and a self management plan was as effective as 6 physio so that's my angle here.
Education = Compliance = Confidence = Prevention
When I started out with this blog way back in 2009 (!), with my background as a personal trainer/strength and conditioning coach, the focus was purely on physical preparation for football.
If you've been a long term reader than you'll have noticed a gradual shift into the coaching which also adds in tactical, psychological and technical elements of performance and this brings me back to a topic I've covered numerous times before, ACL's.
AFLW 6.0 starts tonight and hopefully we see the best season to date in regards to performance but also limiting ACL injuries.
Even though I don't write much on the physical aspect of football too much these days (when there's new info to provide I do my best to do so), I do still read up on it so here's my latest readings on all things ACL injuries from movement specialists such as Jason Avedesian, Harjiv Singh, Adam Virgile and Rich Clarke.
For a while now my thoughts have been that what we're seeing is not all physically based (strength, range of motion etc) as there's a lot of females in sub-elite and elite sports now but we're still seeing lots of ACL's, even with the vastly improved training that comes playing at those levels.
My local club's women's team implemented one of those ACL prevention programs developed at one of the sports universities and I developed one pretty similar back in 2016 when AFLW started, so I am aware their limitations now looking from lense consisting of the 4 co-actives of sport, not just 1.
Non-contact injuries usually involves a flat footed interaction with the ground + the knee being close to full extension upon landing/deceleration + lateral flexion (side bending) of the torso in the opposite direction that you try to go cascading into an abducted hip, knee valgus and a foot planted in external rotation of the cutting side.
Physically I would aim to develop forefoot (balls of feet) locomotion patterns + trunk rotation and lateral flexion in the direction you intend to cut towards.
Tactically it comes from an error in perception-action coupling error as stimuli must be received, interpreted and organised correctly and efficiently, for the correct movement solution to be found to play against it so the more game experiences you can provide your players in training, the more movement tactical and movement variability they'll develop as every action in football is different so having just 1 solution puts you at great risk in each and every action you perform.
On the back of that you have cognitive load which is comprised of everything going in a game such as decision making on top of your physical and psychological state and it's this divided attention that may be the biggest issue players face as it puts our body and it's movements on a form of autopilot as you can't individually attend to every little thing in the heat of game time.
Things that can be impacted by divided attention include reduced knee flexion at initial contact, increased valgus/knee extension and reduced stability during landing/cutting with a lot of these biomechanical changes coming from the reduced ability to anticipate ground contact and implement protective movement patterns to reduce knee joint loading.
In training settings we have full control over all of these aspects and we mostly train them in isolation so the performance gap is the game play at training mentioned above where physical and psychological demands can also be decreased and built upon if needed.
By using game play during training you are providing your players a greater representative of gamer demands which has far greater transfer than traditional training, and it's not even close.
Coaches always to train like you play but you can't train like you play if you don't play like you play when you train - a bit of a mouthful but you get the point!
Moving to games and what the research shows from those is that game actions like pressing, tackling, being tackled and regaining balance after kicking/landings are the most frequent injury patterns.
It's also important to note that most injuries occur in the first half of games, providing support to the theory that when the game is fast and decision making requirements are at their highest (putting cognitive load through the roof), then players are at their most vulnerable and this backs up my thoughts above that physically we're probably doing more than OK in preparing players but tactically and psychologically we could improve a fair bit.
To dive even deeper in this ACL rabbit-hole, ACL injuries occur within 60 milliseconds of contacts but conscious processing of proprioceptive information doesn't take place for 100 milliseconds, leaving a major gap in the time line where players need to predict what they can and can't do in a safe manner, at that very point in time which again, is developed through increased game play at training and being exposed to a lot of scenarios and situations that require the player to find an infinite amount of solutions that builds movement variability and a more robust system, and studies have shown training environments that use differential learning and a constraints led approach can greatly reduce non-contact ACL injury risk for these very reasons.
Lastly we'll look at sensorimotor performance which is a fancy term but is simply the integration between perceptual sensory input (vision, hearing, touching etc) and the biomechanical movement output (running, jumping, cutting, deceleration etc).
Key attributes here include working memory (team tactics), pattern recognition (us and the opposition), dual tasking (divided attention), visual attention/multiple object tracking (spatial recognition of changing positions of teammates and opposition) and reaction time/processing speed (avoiding on-coming defenders etc), all that needs to be completed in milliseconds (60 of them if you remember from above!).
If players are lacking in some or all of these area's they'll often be out of position tactically and physically and then attempt to fix that by using solutions they probably haven't rehearsed before, and the body isn't quite ready for there and then. By being able to predict what will happen even slightly ahead of time, the body can perform movements and actions that they have processed are already safe to perform.
I'll pull this up here but if you have any questions, thoughts or feedback on this then left me know on the socials and I can confirm whatever you need.
Tigers by 18 tonight.
Something you'll see in all levels of football, but plenty of in youth football ranks, is a player in possession of the ball on the burst but unable to see anything on the field apart from length, resulting in simply kicking the ball as long as they can to whoever is there.
A unique skill you can teach is for players to look both short and long so as to not just find an option top kick to, but the correct option.
The first option isn't the best option, the best option is the best option, whether that is 1st, 2nd or 3rd option.
During "game day" we had just prior to Xmas which completes each program, 1 player did this perfectly where he burst out of the middle of the ground and where a lot of players would simply continue with that action of fast and long, he lowered his eyes mid-kick action and hit up a far shorter target then he was initially looking for.
His team were a player down in their forward line too at that point, displaying elite decision making under pressure, knowing that continuing the fast and long action he was already embroiled in, would result in a kick to a free back line, an immediate turnover, and a loss of the opportunity to score.
Here's a little training drill you can use for this exact game situation that focuses on finding the best option whether that be the fast and long option or the slower and shorter option...
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