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 ...
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Tag Archive: game style
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 ...
Game Style Moments in Australian Football
I recently gave a presentation to a local club about developing and training your game style. One of the things I thought generated some good discussion was showing video footage of certain moments in games (ie turnover in your forward line) and seeing if they had a defined plan for their players to execute in ...
Defensive Transition Principles
Recently we posted an article on the counter-attack in Australian Football, both from an offensive and defensive viewpoint. In basketball this play is referred to as a 'fast break' or 'transition' - a time when possession is lost by one team and hence gained by the other. This transition phase is ...
Utilising video in your coaching
We all know video is a powerful tool for those coaches fortunate to have access to this resource. In the last 10 years the explosion of digital video has made many things possible in a coaching sense. Video technology has become commonplace to the point that coaches at most levels should be exploring how it ...
The Counter-Attack in Australian Football
The following article was first published in 2005 as part of my Level 3 coaching accreditation. Whilst some of the statistics quoted below are now different and indeed some of my thoughts have evolved, I thought it was still worth posting in order to generate some ideas and get coaches thinking about this aspect of ...