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What are You Watching in Practice?

Posted on Dec 05, 2007 under Coaching Principles | No Comment

Your abilities as a coach are limited to how well you observe in practice. Good observation allows you to analyze, and therefore reinforce or correct, your players. Where is your focus when you look at the activities of your practice? How well do you pay attention to detail? Are you able to take in the big picture?

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Designing a Drill

Posted on Dec 05, 2007 under Coaching Principles | No Comment

Designing a drill may be as easy as borrowing someone else’s idea and modifying it to fit your program, or as difficult as starting from scratch. Either way, it is your team that you are training so the drill should be team-specific. What I usually do is come up with the problem that needs to be trained correctly (not as easy as it sounds).

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