SKILL ACQUISITION TRAINING/DRILL DESIGN - AUSTIN STUBBS / MARC SOPHOULIS
I've posted about various modules I've done of Austin's before so when I saw him on the Saturday and told me he was on the next day I made sure I was there - he's been an analyst at various clubs in the AFL/VFL system and now doing his own thing.
Marc is at Collingwood VFL but is a high-performance tennis coach by trade with Austin and him having done this in a tandem for a while and it showed in their delivery.
This was again focusing on using CLA to drive how to you design your training activities which I've also written about extensively, so it was right up my alley.
My favourite nugget from this was Austin's framework of concept and skill where you need to be able to label both and if you can't then the training activity is probably not representative enough of the game and won't contain enough game information to transfer to games.
I'll touch on that in the 4th training activity presented below.
Austin went in to how when he was at Essendon and they tried emulating the Richmond chaos handball/surge game and this was what they used day 1 to introduce it:
2 DEFENDERS IN
A transitional handball activity with the constraints of time and space being progressively decreased for the offense as more defenders come in:
INSIDE TO OUTSIDE DIAMOND
A congested-driven activity that requires the offense to move the ball quickly and cleanly to the outside players to get the number advantage with the number players in such a tight area constraining time and space a lot for the offense, yet the defense needs to also adjust to having more players to cover as the outside players join the fray:
INSIDE TO OUTSIDE OPEN PLAY
Over a bigger area, this deliberately and specifically positions players from both teams to start with and then it's perceive and act for every player from there. I'll just add that if you only train in tight spaces where there isn't time to think and act, but simply to act then players will find it hard to perceive, think and act when they have the time to do so:
FORWARD PRESS DEFENSE LINE
Let's go back to the concept and skill framework from earlier.
In this training activity the concept is forward press defense and the skill is closing space effectively.
Going deeper on the concept, the why is to create a turnover as close to your goals as possible also recognising the triggers of when to use it which is usually once the first defender presses then the rest trade up an opposition player as well. Other triggers are the opposition receiving the ball facing our goals, a high/loopy handball receive or a fumble/loose ball.
The skill of forward press defense is how effective you are at closing space and then directing the player to an angle that will disadvantage them.
We're talking powerful acceleration into small/tiny steps to decelerate + angling the ball carrier towards the boundary line or another teammate coming into assist
What concepts you want to train up is the easy part but you really need to go to work on the skills required to carry it out repeatedly in the heat of battle.
In the end it weas a big but fruitful weekend and it should be mandatary for coaches and parents (especially dad's) to attend these typers of things in my opinion to increase the barrier to coaching which is THE number 1 reason for kids dropping out of football at any age and the sooner clubs realise this, the better.
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