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Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Address: South Kingsville 3015 Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 1ST TRAINING SESSION BACK - FULL LAY OUT I sent out the weekly newsletter last night and in it I mentioned that with the uncertainly around the lifting of restrictions here in Melbourne, coupled with my team not having a committed senior coach at the time (as of about 4 - 5 weeks ago), I put together an 8 session pre-Xmas training plan if on the off chance that we still didn't have a coach yet needed to get back into training. In the end I spent countless hours going through ...all my drills I have on file, drawing them up, printing them out and making out a folder so I could categorise them all. From there I went to work and ordered each drill within their own category to form a progression of training activities for that category. I must have reordered them 5 times as I devised different ways to categorise them but time was a-plenty. In the end my categories ended up being: Warm Up Kicking Development Defense Midfielders / Defenders / Forwards (split up into seperate groups at times) Game Within each positional category they were then broken up into: Game Model Rehearsal Positional Tactics Small Sided Games / Scenarios As stated I built an 8 session plan where no 1 training activity is repeated except for the kicking development category. The reason for this is that with players having been out of the game for 12 months, I want to expose to them as many situations/problems as possible as soon as possible, forcing them to have to process a lot of different information and then solving all those problems. I don't want to do 3 - 4 cone drills that solve the same problem (if you can call no opposition or decision making a problem...hint: you can't), as we'll be well behind from the outset and need to "catch up" in fast time. There are limited cone drills apart from some of the game model rehearsal activities but that's basically to teach positioning and they will be taken out as soon as possible. So for this week I'll lay out the first session of this 8 session plan with all the training activities that I planned for that session. It will be based on the types of systems our team used last year, which I believe we should build on more rather than "start again" so it might not be ultra specific to all of you but footy isn't a hard game and we all pretty much want to do the same thing with and without the ball. Tomorrow I will post the warm up, kicking development and defense activites in the training drills section so make sure you check back in.

21.01.2022 TRAINING ON THE EDGE- DECISION MAKING Part 1 - Training on the Edge Introduction Part 2 - Training on the Edge Kick Development... Today we have a look at training on the edge in regards to decision making but just a quick reminder of what training the edge really means which is "training a player at a specific level that lies just above or below their level of capability. This drill can be performed in a number of different ways within the same basic set up which is the image above... If you would like access to this training and many others register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.

20.01.2022 GAME INTELLIGENCE PART 3 As we slowly develop the holisticness of what Game Intelligence is after parts 1 and 2 earlier this week we look at part 3 which discusses a little about scanning and the visual system. Performing scanning of the field requires a higher functioning mind to decode, which is fundamental to on-field awareness, we looked at in part 1....Continue reading

17.01.2022 TRAINING ON THE EDGE Every player has their own strengths and weaknesses and as a coach it's our duty to build on those strengths and develop those weaknesses. Knowing how 99% of team training operates at the local/amateur level with everyone doing the same drill at the same time then we're probably not attending to the strengths and weakness and even 1 player like we should be, let alone all of them....Continue reading

17.01.2022 Dad with Son at Footy Ground Love - father/son time, initiative, setting a great example Hate - dad hasn’t let go of the footy for the first 20mins!

14.01.2022 GAME INTELLIGENCE PART 4 In the final part of this Game Intelligence series inspired by this monster article I'll take a look at how movement fits into all this and finally in-game decision making, which is how everything presented up until now presents within a game, why it presents as such and who it presents to specifically. I've deliberately left anything from the physical co-active out until now and my reason for that is that is because at local/amateur levels of footbal...Continue reading

12.01.2022 The bounding looks to have improved my vertical force a little which is kinda the point #afltraining #aflcoaching #afl #aflw #aflwomens #athletics #sprinting

12.01.2022 CollingwoodFC doing shuttle runs for testing like I've described here - https://aussierulestraining.com//aerobic-threshold-traini/ https://twitter.com/ByMarcMcGowan/status/1347309222837407744

12.01.2022 10 STEPS TO DEVELOPING TRAINING DRILLS THROUGH YOUR GAME MODEL I've harped on about game model's for ages now and I'll keep doing until every coach from division 8 under 12's to AFL premiers has one. It's greatest use is how it organises not only your game plan, but how you teach it and that trails through to how you can train far more effectively than cone to cone lanework for maximal transfer to games - the actual point of training.... Here's a 10min video I made on how to do this and let me know your questions/feedback below: EDIT - 2 slides were skipped during the recording for some reason so they're posted in the comments below. EDIT 2 - I redid the full video again, link in the comments

12.01.2022 10 TAKEAWAYS FROM THE AFL SPORTSREADY GAME PLANS COURSE A couple of weeks ago I took part in another AFL Sportsready course run by Austin Stubbs from AFLHP, this time looking at game plans. Earlier this year I took part in a skill acquisition course that I posted about here....Continue reading

10.01.2022 CONCENTRATION WARM UP DRILL I read a little bit about player concentration the other day and like everything else, if you want your players to have it and, display it on gameday, then if you don't you don't put focus on it at training then the you the coach, is to blame, not the players. Players Required: 12/group but you could have multiple players on each group and they go to where they kick it to.... Balls Required: 2 Space Required: 50m x 20m Drill Level: Moderate to Hard Here it is: To access this training drill and heaps of others than register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.

09.01.2022 10 TAKEAWAYS FROM THE AFL SPORTREADY GAME PLANS COURSE PART 2 * images can be seen at the blog link at the bottom I finished off my previous post after the first of 2 Zoom calls for the course with the 2nd one here having a huge focus on game vision and seeing how different tactics and strategies look in actual game situations....Continue reading

09.01.2022 TRAINING ON THE EDGE PSYCHOLOGICAL CO-ACTIVE Part 1 Training on the Edge Introduction Part 2 Training on the Edge Kick Development... Part 3 - Training on the Edge Decision Making Today we have a look at training on the edge in regards to the psychological co-active, or mental strength, but just a quick reminder of what training the edge really means which is training a player at a specific level that lies just above or below their level of capability. To train on the edge psychologically you need to induce great stress to the player's system which can be a number of ways but before that you need determine what co-active you want to focus on whether that is individual player-based or team based. PLAYER BASED To push the boundaries of an individual player you first need to determine what their biggest performance limiter/s are. Hint: it probably isn't fitness... To access this training and many others, especially the others in this Train on the Edge series, than register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.

08.01.2022 KEEPING DEFENSIVE SHAPE TRAINING DRILL Earlier this week I posted a presentation video titled 10 Steps to Developing Training Drills Through Your Game Model. In it it provided you with some general guidance on what a game model entails, how you go about developing it and then how it can drive what you train and how you train it.... It's best quality is how it breaks down a complicated game such as Aussie Rules Football that can then allow you to train specific aspect of it in isolation. In 99.9% of cases, us coaches go straight to the integrating the many aspects of a scenario, such as team defense, but in such a broad and general manner that the foundation that the tactic or strategy is built on is not as strong as it could be and it breaks down under the pressure of game time. In the presentation I used the following example: Game Moment - Defense Macro Moment - Defend the Goal Micro Moment - Make the Ground Small Making the ground small will increase the chances every other defensive based micro moment being successful (the foundation as mentioned above) so here's a training drill that can help do exactly that. Players Required: 5 + Your Defensive Formation Balls Required: 1/Group Space Required: Half of the Ground Drill Level: Moderate If you would like access to this training drill and plenty of others than register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.

04.01.2022 GAME SENSE COACHING APPROACH TO AFL BOOK REVIEW Shane Pill is a PE Teacher and Author who runs his own site called Learning Through Sport. I've been following him for about a year and a half now and he's always putting out good information that has been through the trenches throughout his coaching and teaching duties covering a variety of sports, with AFL being one of them.... His thing is along the lines of game based training with a purpose so instead of just setting up a mini-game of football and letting the kids go, you would develop a game involving the skills you want to develop, use rules/constraints that highlight them, set an acheivable goal then let the kids/players self explore themselves through it. It's definitely an athlete-centered approach where the coach acts more of a facilitator who creates the ideal environment to elicit the change/improvement you would like to see. Throughout the gamed the coach then would allow pause breaks for questions and discussion about what's currently happening and to also ask players for idea's about how they can better go about it. He has plenty of articles on the site linked above so I would strongly encourage you to go back through those (I have) but here's a peak at what's in the book. There are 6 basic levels to the book: 1. Games for Fundamental Sport Skill Development 2. Games to Refine Sport Specific Skill Development 3. Games to Develop Attack and Defense Structures 4. Developing Practice Plans 5. Developing a Game Plan 6. Task Cards/Session Plans Each level sort of matches up to an increase in player age as you can see by the subjects of each level. Each level starts with basic questions to ask throughout this level as alluded to above followed by 10 - 20 training drills that you can use for different scenarios/activity goals. Each level finishes with a game simulation activity you can do suitable for the level these players are at. I've used a lot of stuff I've read from Shane's articles in my own writings so if you like the content I release then you'll love this. Every junior club should have this book and have it available for all junior coaches to use to base their training sessions on. Buy it here - https://www.achper.org.au//play-with-purpose-the-game-sens

03.01.2022 1ST TRAINING SESSION BACK - LINE WORK (MIDFIELDERS/FORWARDS/BACKS) Part 1 - Introduction Part 2 - Warm Up / Kick Development / Defense... At this point we're about 30 - 35mins into the session and it's time to break into groups. Grouping your players into their specific lines that they'll most likley play in is all part of the stream lining approach as well as making training ore specific to each player. So break your players up into backs, midfielders and forwards but there might be a little bit of switching of players depending on the drill as I'll outline below... If you would like access to these training drills and the others in this "1st Session Back" series than register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.

02.01.2022 1ST TRAINING SESSION BACK - WARM UP, KICKING DEVELOPMENT, DEFENSE Yesterday I kicked off this week's "1st Training Session Back" series with an introduction on how all this came about and how I went about putting it all together. Today I'll take you through the first 3 parts of the session and my thoughts on each of them as well as the specific training drills I would use, being:... Warm Up Kicking Development Defense WARM UP You've got 180mins total time to train each week at 90mins per session. Not long really when you need to cram in skill development, team/line tactical work as well as all the physical-based work teams like to do. With all these non-negotiables you need to find a way to majorly streamline your warm up. The days of 2 laps with some stretches thrown in haphazardly should be left to die as it's 15mins out of your 90mins per session essentially wasted. You can warm up and get benefit out it at the same time... If you would like access to this training drill and the others in this series than register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.

01.01.2022 TRAINING ON THE EDGE - KICKING DEVELOPMENT A quick recap from the introduction yesterday that refers to training on the edge as "training a player at a specific level that lies just above or below their level of capability." Here's a quick way you can train kicking development in each and every player within a team training setting.... Here's what the basic set up looks like... If you would like access to this training drill and many others than register for a level 3 membership at https://aussierulestraining.com/membersh/membership-levels/.