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Author: Steven Hall Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/reactionsreading-the-gamebeing-1-step-ahead-of-opposition
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Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 30dOur team would tend to be reactive at times too. I’m not sure if it is something inside the kids or if it’s something you can train.1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 30dOur team would tend to be reactive at times too. I’m not sure if it is something inside the kids or if it’s something you can train.1Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 30dOur team would tend to be reactive at times too. I’m not sure if it is something inside the kids or if it’s something you can train.1Reply
Kateel Quereshi
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Kateel Quereshi • 30dI do feel it is something you need to train… there are various activities that can help develop these.. even a simple game like head,shoulders,knees,toes and reach/grab. This I feel also helps reacting to the changing scenarios in the game even if you are in possession of the ball as a team.1Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 30dThat’s a great question Steven and one that comes up a lot.What you’re describing usually comes down to game perception and scanning habits. Kids (and even adults) often follow the ball because it feels like the most important thing on the pitch, but real anticipation comes from constantly checking surroundings and understanding triggers before the ball moves.I would suggest really developing scanning habits. Lack of anticipation comes from not being aware of what’s happening or might happen aro… See more3Reply
Kateel Quereshi
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Kateel Quereshi • 30d@Jamie Birch interesting you mention teach triggers… on training Saturday I spent time shouting out the word trigger, when it was there… the boys than started to pick this up and were communicating with one another when the they saw the triggers… In the game yesterday I could see this transferring into the game from training, being a little bit more patience…. Can’t say they didn’t rush at times, but small gains 😁2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 30d@Kateel Quereshi brilliant 👍🏻1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 30dHi Steven, to fix this, I would do a ball mastery warm-up, focusing on moves players can do that are functional (i.e. to beat an opponent)Then I would do a block of 1v1’s and Small Sided Games with consequencesLose the 1v1 and you lose (like losing a duel in a game). Lose a SSG and you are on the outside looking in.So, not reacting first and losing a duel has a consequence (like a real game).The links I posted are to sessions I would do.2Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 30dHalf my team goes in guns blazing and the other half just sit back and wait. Revisiting this again this week in training going into 2 tough matches this weekend. I like what @Kevin Middleton suggested. Practicing 50/50 situations can also help.2Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 30d@Brian Willis Keep putting them in the situation, while teaching them the tools they need to escape pressure, and then they will get there.As the coach, you need to make it make sense for them and let them get the reps in 👏0Reply
Mario Demmelbauer
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Mario Demmelbauer • 30dWe call this “play activity.” If that’s not there, it gets tricky 😉 To warm up, we like to play a cognitive game with 4 colors/4 balls/4 goals/4 fields. This constantly challenges them to adjust their positions, communicate, and orient themselves in advance so they know where to play the next ball. (Sorry for german, but translater helps you 🤗)4Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 30d@Mario Demmelbauer brilliant 👍🏻0Reply
Kateel Quereshi
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Kateel Quereshi • 30d@Mario Demmelbauer looks interesting. Could you explain how the game is played?1Reply
Steven Hall
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Steven Hall • 29dSo 3 teams can play possession and one team can win and score or 2 teams etc1Reply