Are you sessions bringing out the skills you want to see?

Hi everyone, welcome to another edition of the Coach Insight newsletter. This week we have links to sessions design help, counterpressing, tips on when to intervene, 75 free small-sided game sessions, and much more…

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The Top Ten

1. I’ve chosen this as the first to show as I believe it’s an interesting way to create your session design. Look at the skills you want to see, related to your game model, and then how do you create sessions to develop those.

   Gérard Jones, MSc PGCE @Gerard_Jones

   Consider the Key Qualities of a Skillful Player How do you design your practice environments to promote each of these 6 Key Qualities How can you place a premium value on Disguise & Deception? #SundayShare

   

2. Nick Gearing here with an infographic showing the main differences between nonlinear pedagogy and the constraints-led approach, plus the common themes when it comes to application.

   Nick Gearing @NickGearing1

   With an increase in specialist coaches in football, from GK coach to ‘Set Piece’ and ‘Individual Development’ coaches, I made this infographic on a part of the brilliant work of @fab_otte on using NLP and CLA to help coaches design specialist sessions @SundayShare10 #SundayShare

   

3. The current buzzword of the industry is counterpressing. From Klopp to Guardiolda, Bielsa and Now Erik Ten Hag. All coaches whose teams implement this form Of defensive pressure. He’s a nice graphic to show the different ways you can counterpress.

   Peter Motzenbecker @petemotz

   Back with a new #SundayShare that offers a brief explanation of the different types of counterpressing used: man-oriented, space-oriented, ball-oriented, and passing lane-oriented. Which do you use? Which makes the most sense for the age/stage of your players? @SundayShare10

   

4. Small-sided games are a staple in most training sessions and Noel Adair has 75 free ones for you to look through and adapt to your own sessions.

   Neil Adair @NeilTriplets

   75 Small-sided games. All in one booklet. All drawn with @AcademySCoach dropbox.com/s/c2aqs1evxndv…

   

5. Can you guess the Biggest impact on the progression of U14-U16 players from premier league academies? Game time. Some other really interesting stats from research into the effectiveness of our academy system. https://trainingground.guru/articles/using-data-to-analyse-and-increase-player-graduation-rates-in-academies

6. Love this from Stevie Grieve. A great infographic that simplifies the 3 game states and the flow between them.

   Stevie Grieve @Steviegrieve

   @ricky_powers3 @CoachMunkvold @DesmondRhys The game flows, so should training excersizes

   

7. The Plan It Coach team with some tips on when and how to observe and step in during your sessions. I really like the planning focus around primary and secondary players and the planning of how you will manage the other team.

   Plan It Coach @PlanItCoach

   THREAD: 10 tips for observations & coach interventions

8. Building teams that work effectively and support each other is one of the holy grails of coaching. When you’ve created this not only does it create great performance results but also the social element of sport. You must remember how you felt the last time you were part of an effective team. Well to help you the cutting edge coaching team has created points used by one of the best coaches in college basketball. How can you apply these to your team?

   Cutting Edge Coaching @CECoaching_

   5 Universal Truths of Effective Team Building From the 2nd all-time winningest college baseball coach 🧵👇

9. Lots of talk about how best to build up play. Short, long, center-backs full-backs, etc. well here David Laszlo takes a theoretical look at goal kicks and building from the back.

   David Laszlo @David_laslo93

   Theoretical analysis of goal kicks and build up - full pdf FULL PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1dcpnUE…

   

10. Some more help with things to think about when creating your sessions. This time from Phillip O’Callaghan.

    Philip O'Callaghan 🎾 @Mr_Tennis_Coach

    Practice Design, 101: There are 5 Key Principles that every coach should know 1. Representative Learning Design 2. Manipulation of Constraints 3. Attentional Focus 4. Ensuring Functional Variability 5. Developing Relevant info-movement coupling More info 👇 @SundayShare10

    

    

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