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 ...
coaching resources for Australian Football (AFL) and other team sports
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“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 ...
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.
Our 1st Coaching E-book – Developing a Playing System
There hasn't been much action in the way of new posts in the last couple of weeks. The reason for this is we have been busy applying the finishing touches to our 1st ebook called "Developing a Playing System - The 4 Stage Coaching Blueprint". This is a completely ...
Oh no! The opposition have worked out our system/style of play – what now?
Here is the scenario. You are a new coach implementing a system or style of play. In Australian Football (AFL) this could be systems related to counter-attack plays out of defense, kick ins, stoppage setups/exit plays, or forward entry. You carefully design and implement your training activities and teaching methods to fast-track your players in ...
Phil Jackson Coaching Philosophy – master of creating a team culture
Whilst this site is primarily focused on Australian Football (AFL) I am always interested in anything coaching-related from other team sports. As such, on the eve of game 7 of the NBA playoffs I thought it was appropriate to insert this video of Phil Jackson and others discussing his coaching philosophy and methods. Jackson, looking to ...
Game Style Moments in Australian Football (part 2)
In this previous post we began to look at some video examples of what I call "game style moments" - certain situations in the game where the game style you coach is on display. Examples in the first post were entries into the forward line, slow play at half back and defenders ...
Game Day Instruction & Voice
In the modern game of Australian Football the importance of instruction and feedback on the field is just so critical. In fact the value of players who can provide these qualities are sometimes more important than their pure football ability. Below is some great video and audio of Troy Chaplin demonstrating these things during an AFL ...
Making a system work – Lombardi
Hoopthoughts (hoopthoughts.blogspot.com) has a nice short post on an excerpt from a Vince Lombardi book about practice, precision and persistence. Read the post here. This tickled my fancy because Lombardi is really referring to what makes any system of play in any sport successful - the execution of the fundamentals and the ...