As you’ve probably guessed from reading previous articles that I’ve posted here recently, I’m a SSG advocate and think there are so many benefits from learning through game play. Personal belief is that you need those technical aspects in sessions, you need broken down tactical elements and you can connect all of these in smaller …
Thomas Tuchel is a strong advocate of ensuring training is tougher than games. Utilising his differential learning methods, he explains that creating environments for players to be challenged in unusual ways makes the game ‘easier than the training sessions’. This is due to the increased thought processes, increased decision making and the often decreased space …
Why should training sessions be a tougher mental challenge than matches? Read More »
We know that creating a positive environment can help players due to the encouragement and willingness to be creative and explore new ways of displaying talent, but what about for coaches? The coaching environment could be the day to day (or week to week) sessions and this could be positively developmental or negative, depending on …
Looking at the coaching process through a philosophy aspect, coaches often base their own process on experiences, past events or either their own, or surrounding individuals’ feelings (Cross, 1995; Saury & Durand, 1998; Gilbert & Trudel, 2001; Cushion et al., 2003; Jones et al., 2004), which can allow them to stray away from their own beliefs. …
Could positional coaching work in soccer as well as it does in American Football? Read More »
Having looked at trends around behavioural, cognitive and philosophical approaches to coaching, the one that stands out to me as most intriguing is cognitive, with Abraham, Collins & Martindale (2006) suggesting that coaching is a decision making process, something of which I am hugely in support of. In terms of coaching, there are many ways …
Constant, variable and random – when, where and why? Read More »
Who do you think of when asked to provide a ‘Proactive Coach’? What about a ‘reactive coach’? It is (probably) easier to name more proactive, forward thinking coaches than reactive, maybe because of the elite status names on the tip of your tongue. Is this because of the expert/novice paradigm where better executions and decisions …
Proactive and Reactive Coaching – influenced by relationships? Read More »
“Can we play a game?” – as a youth coach, you’ve definitely heard this at least 500 times in a session! You’ve probably heard it a few times each session with adults too, so is it a bad thing? Often, coaches will dismiss the question until the end, and then it can lack direction and …
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