Inspired by some recent research on the use of video to enhance umpires decision making capacity in Australian Football, I thought I would expand a bit more on my practical experiences and demonstrate some examples of how this could work. As some may be aware I am a real advocate for using technology to enhance ...
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Author Archives: Mark Upton
More thoughts on developing “thinking players”
I recently produced a post on this topic and have since found some more good stuff to follow up with. First came a play in the recent AFL game between Collingwood and Richmond. This play shows experienced Richmond player Chris Newman (no. 17 in the black and yellow) looking away from the ball as ...
Performance Analysis – how it fits in the Coaching Process (part 1)
This post is the first of a 3-part series relating to my presentation at last years Level 3 AFL coaching course at the AIS in Canberra. The presentation was all about how performance analysis fits in the coaching process from a coaches point of view (and specifically Australian Football coaches at the elite and semi-elite ...
Developing “Thinking Players”
I recently gave a short talk to a group of year 12 students about how we go about training and playing at the elite level. I touched briefly on the importance of developing "thinking players" - players who have the ability, with or without the ball, to be aware of the important cues in the ...
Developing a Playing System – video presentation
I recently ran a presentation/workshop for a level 2 coaching course based on our ebook "Developing a Playing System - the 4 stage coaching blueprint". I thought it might be worthwhile to record a screencast of the presentation and explain how we conducted the workshop. If you are interested in this topic I encourage you ...
“Flipping” the player learning process in coaching
UPDATE (February 2012): I am in the process of joining forces with "Sports Relations". As such this article can now also be found on the Sports Relations blog. I have seen a few tweets lately concerning a TED presentation by Salman Khan (and this article) on "flipping" the traditional classroom-homework educational ...
Developing a Forward Line in AFL
The video below contains a presentation that I gave about 3 years ago at a level 2 coaching course. It relates to processes and principles for developing a forward line system in Australian Football. Like most of the content here, it is not telling you what forward system to use - that is up to ...
Importance of Transition Play
I have written about transition play in a previous post but wanted to delve into it a little bit more. It is interesting to observe the game of Australian Football evolve at the elite level. Over the last couple of years the ability of the defending team to restrict the time and space available to ...
Coaching Style of Play in AFL – Rob Wiley Videos
Whilst this site covers all team sports it is specifically aimed at Australian Football (AFL). One of the reasons for this was that, when we started the site earlier this year, there was a real lack of quality online resources and information available. Hopefully we are contributing to wards changing that.
10 traits of successful coaches
Earlier in the year I was lucky enough to speak with Patrick Hunt, the coach education expert from the Australian Institute of Sport (you can listen to an audio interview with Patrick on a range of coaching topics in this post). One thing not included in ...