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Founder of @The_CoachingLab - Helping coaches and teachers, grassroot to the world's elite play games with purpose - Dyslexic - info @thecoachinglab .org
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Ag 16 I was told if there was 100 people in a room, 99 would be better.
A few years on, I own a business that gets to work with some of the biggest names in sport, supported by Virgin SU and every day I live the dream.
If there’s a will, there’s a way!
#DyslexiaAwarenessWeek
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Big fan of this graphic, lots of ingredients to make your recipe…
🧱👷🏽
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Epic new favourite small sided game 🙌🏼 🔥5v5… players numbered 1 to 5 on each team, each players number is the value of their goal when scored.
Let players choose their numbers and keep them hidden from the opposition until the final whistle.
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This is the stuff that isn’t shouted about enough within Academy football. Creating meaningful experiences and connections that will last a life time. Well played Chelsea.
👏
@ChelseaFC
invited entire
@ChesterfieldFC
Academy to Cobham on Saturday before sides played each other in FA Cup third round.
A group of 237 players & 30 coaches trained with Chelsea’s Academy teams & had lunch before watching game at Stamford Bridge
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Scary that a kid aged 12/13 could move to the 11v11 aside game and play that format until they stop.
What’s the rush to the adult game? You can’t buy back time!
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The words "High performance" in youth sport is pure branding and marketing.
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No player (or parent!) should arrive at a session without the coach saying hello to them. The best environments I have spent in have coaches who shake hands, know names, ask awesome questions and have a BIG smile!
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Coaches should spend less time talking the group as a whole and spend time coaching on the run and speaking with individuals.
I use to hate listening (trying to!) to coaches talking for 5 minutes about something irrelevant to half the group.
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First rule of coaching, don’t make it about you, make it all about the kids.
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A High Performance coach working at the peak of elite sport said to me recently 🗣 "I am really just a gardener planting seeds for others to grow and explore"
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One top academy Head of Coaching said to me "we pride ourselves in simple practice design, we don't want players learning the practice but the game"
This is an excellent example of simplicity.
3v3+3 with free movement around the outside to support passing lanes
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If you start your sessions with a game every week, I bet you that your players will...
⏱ Arrive on time
⚡️ Start quickly on game day
👋🏼 Be more connected as a group
💥 Become better decision makers
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You have elite U8s?! 😳
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🧠Pedagogically lead
🤹🏼♀️Play based programme
⚽️1v1 to 3v3 practice design
❌Not labeling kids elite
Meeting the kids where they are and not saying "we've always done it this way" attitude. Rule breakers from tradition, love it!
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“The head coach is a component of the system, but they aren’t the system”
@JonBloggs66
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Bleep test video going around of 10 year olds on social media and people justifying it 🤯🤯🤯 How to get most physical return in training in more playful ways?
🥵 Second ball at the ready
🔥 More transition moments
🏀 Add basketball shot clock
🦁 Small numbers, bigger area
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Using a games based approach is not just playing small sided games.
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The use of two attacking and two defensive goals formed a core part of the work produced by
#HorstWein
- Developing an understanding of space, importance of scanning and sharing of the ball. Here’s a few examples....
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Arsenal training ⚪️🔴 Notice the clock and score board! The two biggest things that influence how a player plays the game? Time and score.
Powerful!
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When I look at the best youth sport environments, i see coaches that…
📧 Involve parents
👊🏻 Have a connection
😎 Coach with a smile
🎯 Believe in each player
🎮 Put the game at the centre
❤️ Love something about every player
What do you see?
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The receive to the break the line, the scan of space, the execution of the backhand cross field - Seve Van Ass 🙌🏼💥👀
#Skills
@HGCHockey
@KNHB_NL
@hockey_nl
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Hockey is beautiful. Gameday 9
@Hockey_nl
Hoofdklasse highlight comes from Amsterdam and Pinoke...
#GiveAndGetGo
Full highlights here:
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Thomas Tuchel approach at Chelsea has been intriguing, a coach who loves to use constraints and games to afford certain outcomes for his players.
⚽️ Mini balls - improved control
🎾 Hold tennis balls - no shirt pulling
↗️ Diagonal pitch - diagonal runs
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Rather than playing 8v8 at training it could be some of these things options…
👀 8v8 with 2 balls
⛹🏻 7v7+2 bonus players
❌ 10v6 with constraints
🙌🏼 4v4 small sided games
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I asked a 9 year old why they love playing games in training, his response was good feedback for his coaches…
“It’s what we play on the weekend so why wouldn’t we do it at training.”
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“...before we start developing in the kids the notion of football as a passing game, we must focus on the development of skills that suit where they are mentally and cognitively, like keeping the ball, running with the ball and scoring.”
/
@KrisVDHaegen
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Talent identification has become a money making and marketing tool for clubs, schools and associations. It doesn’t put the player at the centre, it puts the bank balance and ego at the centre. Rant over.
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New Years resolution, read at least 15 minutes a day... These should be get me started!
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I look the most 🤪✌🏼🕺🏽coaches and teachers, they do these 9️⃣ things to engage players in sessions! How many positive interactions are you having with players?
🔗
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Super excited to be selected for the 2018
@EuroHockeyOrg
Coaches for Europe programme. Roll on a year of serious of learning!
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As the season kicks off... clubs, coaches, schools, EVERYONE! Just consider the format your youngsters are playing, is U8s playing half pitch 6v6 really supporting their development?
Here’s a few ideas from 🇧🇪🇳🇱
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A big misconception of coaching is that every session needs to be different. There is nothing wrong with replicating the same session twice... Have your core games with variations... Create opportunities for players to recall information....
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One of the things that drops off as you move into High Performance is the use of fun…. Looks like it’s working for Arsenal….
Just remember why players got into sport! 👊🏻
Arsenal players - full of internationals and top of the Premier League - playing ‘Robin Hood’ from the Level 1!
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The problem in youth sport is that coaches often coach for themselves and not for the young people in front of them. The player and person will also be the syllabus/curriculum/inspiration.
Get rid of your ego and meet players where they are not and where you are.
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A friend who started teaching at a local primary school for the first time asked for my reflections and lessons must haves for young people.
I showed him this....
@The_CoachingLab
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Adultification of youth sport.
Everton under 8’s arriving to sign contracts with the club. Absolutely brilliant for the young lads and we hope they enjoyed there day 👏🏼 💙
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Hold a strong belief that we shouldn’t be having trials for sports teams at Primary School. The school sporting experience is one that underpins how an individual will interact with sport for the rest of their lives.
Make it playful, create opportunities and measure smiles.
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A reported 70% of kids will stop playing sport by their late teens! Even more reason to…
💥Create great memories
🙌🏼 Know a players “why”
👊🏻 Teach non tech/tac skills
⚽️ Play their favourite games
Don’t be someone’s last coach
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I asked a group of junior players who I met for the first time, what they want in their sessions, in front of their coaches and here is what they said….
@The_CoachingLab
#MatchPlayCards
©️
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🏆🇦🇺Had the privledge of playing against some of the best players in the world today. The coach inside me had to write down some reflections of their attributes and skill sets...
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Reflecting on some experiences:
🎾Hockey coach in Australia used a tennis ball to play 7v7 and test players first touch...
📐West Ham U9s played on a long and narrow pitch for more 1v1s and vision through the field...
⚡️One coach scored metres run with the ball in the game...
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Indoor Hockey we love you - Please stay around a little longer each year! Moment of the week from Uhlenhorster Vs Club Alster
#GiveAndGetGo
🇩🇪💥🤙🏽
Full highlights:
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One Premier League Academy club I visited recently challenged me to look at one player for the session. To notice their how many times they scanned, where their first touch went and what they did after they passed the ball.
Every coach should try this!
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I’d add coaches putting themselves making front and centre of team photos. First rule of coaching, make it about the players first and not you!
Catch you in 2023 ✌🏼first stop Singapore, then Malaysia and Melbourne for January.
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As the
#FIHProLeague
completes its first year, here’s a low-down on what teams were attempting throughout the tournament.
Happy viewing!
👉🏽
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6 ways to make your session the best session of the week for players…
😀 Coach with a smile
👉🏼 Ask them about their day
⚽️ Play their favourite games
⏱ Leave the balls out on arrival
🗣 Maximise touches on the ball
👊🏻 An interaction with every player
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Why starting training with games is so powerful ⬇️ Try starting training with the game you finished with in the last session and reflect on what you notice....
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One misconception of the games based approach to coaching is that it’s just playing small-sides-games.
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9 things I definitely wish I knew earlier as a coach... and half the stuff you don't get told on coaching courses.
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4-0 win for the England U18s against Ireland. Barmy Army out in full force. Semi-Final against the Dutch up next!
@TheGrangeSch
@BuckinghamLHC
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Golden ticket in coaching young people? Knowing names.
Find your method and remember kids name and nick name. It’ll open up many more impactful interactions.
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Hockey is a beautiful game of craftsmanship 🙌🏼🙌🏼
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With world leaders players on our doorstep, here’s some work we’ve done around role models, playing attributes and characteristics to support emerging players.
#TheGameIsKing
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A few things we’ve explored recently with trying to develop players ability to scan the field…
⚽️ Using two balls
👀 Playing with no bibs
👋🏻 Neutral bounce players
🎥 Playing with a head cam
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It's real...
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Maybe my favourite video of 2019....
#UnleashingCreativity
When their ball control continues to improve, we send in the reinforcements...
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First rule of coaching (and teaching), make it about the kids and not about you. Meet players where they are and not where you are.
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Wrapping up our 6am training block by exchanging turf for beach. I vote for beach hockey in place of hockey 5s....
#LovePerth
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ESCAPE ROOM 🧩🔐 The puzzle to explore, search and exploit! 3v1 in a compressed space with 4 possible exit points to travel through to be released...
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Coaches should be paid for their planning time, amazing the hours people out into these things and employers think it’s a 1 hour session and so one hour is paid.
Guardiola: "As a player you train 2hrs & you go home; as a coach you train 2hrs, but you can work 24hrs if you want, there are always things to do. You have to be mentally calm, try not to feel exhausted. Find a way to work to the maximum, but also to have time for your own life.
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Coaching youngsters? A few of my ideas on coaching the
#FoundationPhase
and where we sit as coaches to best support the young people in front of us.
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HOCKEY DODGEBALL🤾🏼♂️🕺🏻Hockey in a school environment is often restricted due to the lack of protection each pupil has… here we mix it up and use different balls and roles of students to get the movement and interactions we want.
3 touches of the ball the middle player changes.
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One year on... we’ve shipped to 33 countries across the world, supported coaches from grassroots to elite performance and created countless new friends and adventures!
#MatchPlayCards
🎮👀
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📲🎙 Insightful podcast with AFC Director of High Performance
@DarrenBurgess25
➡️ The need for work experience
➡️ Embracing culture differences
➡️ Using a player centred approach
“If you don’t understand, just ask!!”
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Kids are the best form of feedback, I learnt a lesson about language this week with the year 3s. “Go and grab a stick...” 3 of the 17 kids return with a stick from the school garden rather than a hockey stick. Coaching is the best job!
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Belgium play hockey like Barcelona in their peak and a modern day combination of Liverpool and Manchester City, it’s beautiful.
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Be the coach that…
😁 Has a smile on their face
👊🏻 Sees the person behind the player
💥 Connects with parents at training
⚡️ Asks players their favourite games
🌋 Promotes challenge and development
📝 Shares what they’re trying to do better
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🗣"lots of 1v1 to 3v3 to create a strong long-term love of the sport."
🗣We don’t believe in the existing model of labelling six, seven and eight-year-olds ‘elite’
You would want to be a kid here and to have your kid here, if you were a parent.
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Belgium Hockey’s Arthur Van Doren is the best player in the world right now because the “defender” has the ball possession and non ball possession skills and attributes to play anywhere on the field. Good feedback for coaches to move players around positions…
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Time goes fast when you are having fun! Final
@CCCUSport
Scholar evening complete. The support and guidance has been top draw from the word go!
Honoured to receive Performance Scholar Of The Year 2018.
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To the people who started my coaching and provided opportunities
@MikeJoyceFS
@MikeIrving17
@FuturesSports
@BorlaseHockey
👊🏽👊🏽
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A Premier League Head of Coaching who I listened to recently shared how players are often unlikely to make their first team debut in their “preferred position”
.... again emphasising the importance of varied experiences and hard drive of knowledge in a players development.
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“The primary function of a grassroots football coach is to develop a lifelong love game based on mass participation and fun. This can be never be achieved by excluding children of perceived lesser ability”
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Lots to like and consider in this clip from Pinoke against Kampong in the latest
#Hoofdklasse
highlights. What do you see?
🏎 Forehand to forehand
👀 Face the way you play
🔁 Change the channel of attack
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This is coaching.... probably what more coaches should come to remember. Meet the kids where they are, and not where you are.
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I struggle with the selection criteria of “coachable”… it suggests that player X must behave in a certain way and posses certain characteristics in order to please the coach and environment.
Rather, the coach and environment should be reflective, adaptive and player centred.
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Centralised programme & FIH Pro League restricting a certain playing group from
@EuroHockeyOrg
indoor Championships... okay, fine.
BUT a lot of talent in both coaches & players across the UK to fulfil an English team surely?!
#EHIC2020
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#ThursdayThoughts
Things that aren’t spoken about enough between hockey players and coaches...
👉🏼 Execution of first touch
⚙️ Playing on the forehand
🚀 Receiving the ball in motion
🎯 Sharing the ball off the right foot
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