1 LINERS FROM MY RESEARCH FILES - YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

I've got 100's of pages of research I've compiled over about 20 years on training and coaching just sitting there, with the intention of being used as content but rarely does.

As I'm in the middle of packing and then moving house next week, this is the perfect opportunity to utilise some of it.

This new series is called "1 Liners from my Research Files" which is exactly what it suggests.

In the next few weeks there will also be posts on learning, teaching, sport psychology and other aspects of sports coaching.  

Today I've pulled all 1 line pieces of info from my files on everything youth development, training and coaching + I'll link to Twitter accounts of those I have noted the author of so feel free to check each of them out and greatly extend your learning space.

1. Training Don’ts (Shane Smith) x long runs, large sided games, aggressive instructions, long lines, demanding silence, long warm ups, long duration stretching, having only a winning focus, being too serious, focusing on skill technique over coaching, making it about you
2. Shane Smith – consider those who don’t get a lot of the ball in games, who don’t stand out or are too shy to call for a pass and give them extra time, encouragement and opportunities
3. Be child centered, be holistic, be inclusive, fun/safe, prioritise the love of the sport over learning the sport, focus on fundamental skills over sport specific skills, engage parents positively, plan progressive programs, use different methods to enhance learning, use competition in a developmental way
4. .01% of youth athletes will be world champs but 99.9% will hopefully be lifelong supporters/lovers/contributors to their sport, so coach accordingly
5. Grant Jenkins – kids don’t specialise at school so why should they at sport?

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GAME MODELLING - OUR KICK OUT

 

Previous Post - Our Intercept Mark Defensive 50

New Post - Our Kick Out

Because a kick out is a closed play action and about the only time where time isn't a factor besides set shot goal kicking, it's 1 of the most controllable moments of the game.

Most teams will defend a kick out with a 3/4/5/5 zone or something similar so what you'll be kicking into is pretty much the same.

The most important thing to do as the offensive team is determine where the ball is going to be kicked, whose going to be directly involved and then what the other players do off the ball.

Otherwise you have 17 players calling for the 1 ball, and there's actually too much information for the kicker which can be as bad as not enough information, and decision making can be greatly affected.

Here are the movements for each line...

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HALF GROUND KICK OUT TRAINING ACTIVITY

 

Not much to this one really,just set it up and go although you'd have some of your own strategies/tactics you'd want to use off of a kick out so include them in your cueing when explaining the activity.

It looks like this...

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COLLINGWOOD 2024 PRE-SEASON GAME ANALYSIS (FREE!)

Footy's back and about time as my brothers fill the family chat with every cricket game happening on earth when footy isn't on and it's going on right now!

Collingwood had their first hit out against opposition today so I tuned in to see what they kept from last year and anything new I could find in the game style.

Although North Melbourne dominated the game for various reasons (wanted/needed to more, ridiculous center clearance work and fast handball chains from defense for deep forward entries), the Pies still showed their best is going to be up there, without important players and managed game time for others.

Below is a 12min video from today showing staples from last year such as:

• Front Press Defense
• Lane Running
• Kickout Play
• Plus a few other things I took out of it

LEVELS OF GAME MASTERY

 

I've posted about mastery v ego before so in a nutshell it's:

Mastery - locating, finding and completing a pass to the best, usually most open and easy target available.

Ego - ignoring the most open and easy target to attempt a pass with a low chance of being completed and that puts our team at a huge disadvantage if not completed.

1 will usually go unnoticed but does wonders for your team's performance and the other is all about being noticed by everyone, and bragging about it later.

These notes touch on the different levels of mastery, compiled by Paul Gamble, who I'm pretty sure I've posted notes of before.

You'll have players in all of these 5 categories and it's your job as coach to know which players are in what category and then how you'll coach differently to reach and improve them.

• Identifying what stage you’re at can help reveal blind spots and weak areas, and what it will take to get to the next stage
• The 5 stages are novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient and expert
• Novices are entirely reliant on what they’re explicitly taught and blindly follow procedures/templates for how to practice, irrespective of it’s quality
• Advanced athletes are more aware of the gap between what they’re taught and what works in practice, and they start to recognise scenarios and how they each require a variation of the plan, but their pattern matching is flawed/prone to error
• Competent athletes are deliberate and analytical in their approach who can now formulate plans to fit the situation but tend to rigidly follow through with the plan once in motion and can't switch course as the situation evolves
• Proficient athletes are less formulaic and can now custom-fit to each situation while improvising and being highly adaptable/flexible in their responses to unforeseen developments
• Experts are fluid, adaptable, intuitive in how they practice/make decisions on the fly and have superior judgement/tacit knowledge which means they see things others don’t and detect anomalies sooner

I would strongly guess that most of your players are in the top 2, possible 3 categories but also, what category do you, the coach, sit in, and what do you need to do to also move up a level or 2?

The new Game Intelligence Challenge (Level 1) is a great place to start!

GAME MODELLING - OUR INTERCEPT MARK IN DEFENSIVE 50

 

Previous Post - Center Bounce Clearance Win

New Post - Our Intercept Mark Defensive 50

The player movements/formations that will allow this to occur frequently will be evident in future posts as we reach the end of the loop which starts this new loop (that made sense didn't it?), but of course it helps immensely if you have a great contested mark in your defensive 6 but still, we should have equal or more numbers than the opposition from how we're setting up...

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LEARNING FROM TRAINING

 

These notes come from this Gaelic football Twitter site, that looks at what we're actually all aiming for during and from training - learning.

There's so much focus on the "doing" of training but that's mainly because that's what coaches know - they know what they want to see and design their activities for that to happen but that rarely equates to actual learning and thus, minimal transfer to games.

I post a lot on teaching/learning which I get from reading a lot of school-teaching and learning science content, and I strongly urge you to get your hands on some of this too because you haven't taught anything until it's learnt, and in footy that learning is presented in how players perform in games, not in training.

Here's a 10-step framework you can use to ignite your players' level of learning from your own training.

#1 - PLANNING...

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