I've posted about my loathing levels of cone drills plenty of times previously, yet continue to be a staple of local football at all levels and ages even with the mammoth amount of evidence that for skill development and game intelligence, they are simply awful.
4 days ago a study was released on Twitter titled "Exploring the Effects of of Task with Different Decision-Making Levels on Ball Control, Passing Performance and External Load in Youth Football" and it SHOULD signal the death of cone-to-cone passing drills, at least I can hope it does anyway.
The study used Soccer but it all holds true for pretty much any team-ball-invasion sport.
PRE-TESTING
Players were put through a 4v4 small sided game on a 40 x 30m pitch x 6mins and were graded on control behavior (execution, kicking the ball into motor space,body orientation, appropriateness) + passing behavior (decision, execution, offensive position, free from opposition, rhythum and tempo), receiving a 1 or 0 point rating if successful or unsuccessful during the 6min game.
INTERVENTION
After 2 minutes of rest, players were split into 3 groups for activities involving low, moderate and hard decision making.
The low decision making group performed...
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