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Author: Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/coaching-mixed-ability-groups
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Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 27dOur group is a development team and we are definitely a mixed ability group. We have some kids that have played since they were 3 and others who have just started in the past few months, and everywhere in between.For some, the technical aspects are easy and for others it is a real struggle. So we have to pitch our sessions at a level that will keep the better players engaged, but also not too difficult so that the inexperienced players will still be able to take part. It’s a really tough to be h… See more4Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 27dOur group is a development team and we are definitely a mixed ability group. We have some kids that have played since they were 3 and others who have just started in the past few months, and everywhere in between.For some, the technical aspects are easy and for others it is a real struggle. So we have to pitch our sessions at a level that will keep the better players engaged, but also not too difficult so that the inexperienced players will still be able to take part. It’s a really tough to be h… See more4Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 27dOur group is a development team and we are definitely a mixed ability group. We have some kids that have played since they were 3 and others who have just started in the past few months, and everywhere in between.For some, the technical aspects are easy and for others it is a real struggle. So we have to pitch our sessions at a level that will keep the better players engaged, but also not too difficult so that the inexperienced players will still be able to take part. It’s a really tough to be h… See more4Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 27dI try to find the middle ground between most and least skilled players and coach to that level. I’ll challenge the better players individually and doore 121 with the weaker players.3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 27dBrilliant start to the advice guys 👏2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • 26dI’m lucky that at the moment with one exception (just started playing at 15, has some other challenges too) the group have developed together over a long period and where we’ve added new kids they’ve been school friends already playing elsewhere (well, NOT playing elsewhere, so coming to us for game time).But in the past it was a huge headache especially U7-12 when they were all developing at football at different speeds and growing/maturing a different speeds.I used to do a big part, maybe 50%,… See more4Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 26d@Stephen Kavanagh I love this bit: “I had some rules about incompatible pairings so you couldn’t have both Kid A and Kid B on at the same time, or you couldn’t have Kid A in defence with Kid C or if Kid D is in midfield you need Kid F at the back”That takes some planning. I think this is maybe a detail that we have overlooked.4Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 26dHonestly guys, brilliant advice1Reply
Alfie Allan
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Alfie Allan • 25dI coach mixed ability groups all the time during holiday camps at Spartans. There’s players that actually play in a team and there’s other players that don’t.I try to do certain drills that offer a bit of competition, but they’d go in small groups and have a contest amongst their groups. So I would put the better players in groups with each other and put the ones that struggle in a group. I do this to make it competitive and fun. I would mostly encourage the struggling players, and the good thin… See more4Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 25d@Alfie Allan fantastic insight and advice Alfie1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 25d@Alfie Allan Great advice Alfie 👏2Reply