Do you know how to scale your sessions effectively?

Hi everyone welcome to another edition of the coach insight newsletter. We are thrilled to have you join us once again as we dive into the world of football coaching and share the latest insights and tips we’ve found to help you take your coaching game to the next level. This week we have more on scaling, the psychological components of coaching, free resources, how to progress your sessions, and much more.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride as we explore the wonderful world of coaching together. Let's get started!

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The Top Ten

1. We start with Philip O’Callaghan’s thread on scaling. This takes you through what is it, and what you can scale. Although his examples are tennis it’s easily transferable to football. Scaling is just bringing the activity to the individual’s level. What are the ways you can apply this to your sessions?

   Philip O'Callaghan 🎾 @Mr_Tennis_Coach

   Scaling is a crucial topic for coaches to understand. Applying it correctly will help you develop more skillfull players. This thread will save you lots of time & frustration giving you exactly what you need to know about scaling 🧵👇🧵

   

2. PDP interview and article with Dr. Suzanne Brown on the psychological components of coaching. Here they go through understanding emotions, effective communication, helping players to form healthy identities, and creating constructive learning environments. https://playerdevelopmentproject.com/the-psychology-of-coaching/

3. I don’t know about you but there has been a lot of talk about psychological safety and it seems to have become a buzzphrase. How do you create it? See the below from Ryan Pelling

   Ryan Pelling @Ryan_Pelling

   The phrase 'psychological safety' has become the 'go-to' for creating a high performing, supportive and open team... But what is actually behind the phrase? Clark (2020) suggests a team progresses through 4 stages of safety...

4. Free resource alert! Martin Jones with his dropbox of foundation-level sessions. As always adapt them to your team and their needs.

   Martin Jones @MartinJones04

   dropbox.com/sh/qgyksbb1b25… Great resources for foundation coaches @SundayShare10 #sundayshare #football

   

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5. Philip O’Callaghan is twice in the top 5 this week. This time his 10 tips to getting started with the constraints led approach. Many of you will have used a constraints lead approach but maybe not even realised it. great way to formalise what you’ve been doing and improve further.

   Philip O'Callaghan 🎾 @Mr_Tennis_Coach

   Knowing how to get started with the Constraints Led Approach can be tough. So I asked my followers what advice they’d give to coaches and there was fantastic responses which I've narrowed down. Here's 10 great tips that will save you 100's of hours 🧵👇🧵

6. Michael Loftman here outlining his 8 coaching principles. What do you think? how do yours differ and have you written them down and communicated them to your team?

   Michael Loftman @michael_loftman

   8 Coaching Principles for Coaches of All Levels Below are 8 principles which all coaches should use to maximise the development, performance, and happiness of the players they are working with. 1/10

   

7. An article from David Garcia on progressions in a training session. In the article he points to the fact that the importance of progression in training sessions is often misunderstood, the progression of concepts should be incorporated into every exercise in the session, from the warm-up to the final match and progression should not refer to the difficulty of the exercises, but rather the complexity of the objectives being trained. https://www.itsjustasport.com/articles/2017/6/23/progression-why-simple-doesnt-mean-easy

8. Want to help your players be more mentally resilient? Dan Abrahams here with an excellent match script for your players. What I love about these are the simplicity of the phases and how few there are, should be easy for the players to remember.

   DanAbrahamsSoccerAcademy @SoccerAbrahams

   The Dan Abrahams Soccer Academy...in Session One I intorduce players, coaches, and parents to the idea of creating a Match Script A Match Script is, in simple terms, a set of attentional cues that help you focus during a game... Let's break down a Match Script... 🧵👇

   

9. Finding it hard to help your players learn about pressing? seeing as it’s one of the most talked about aspects of the game whether it’s a high press, counter-press etc. Here’s an England learning video on the press, cover and balance

10. Talk about Rondos is back again! well if you’re worried that they don’t offer enough of the different elements of the game. David Garcia takes you through how to build a rondo that has possession, progression, and finalisation.

    David Garcia @IJaSport

    There is an inherent problem with rondos as they are. Football follows team invasion principles and rondos only meet one principle. 1) Possession ✅ 2) Progression ❌ 3) Finalization ❌ But don’t lose hope my friends, there are some benefits from this training tool 🧵👇

    

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