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This thread has been started because Arthur posed a plausible solution to an issue I raised in a post. Alas, I cannot find it.](*,)
I stated somewhere I usually only get to the third stage of a 4 stage session- Game Training. I don't usually get to Training Game. That is because I've been restricted to about 80 minute sessions.
Arthur posed the solution that in a given week with a clearly defined football problem relating to the previous match, why not do Stage 1, 2 and 3, on one night, then 2,3 and 4 on another night. It certainly sounds reasonable at face value.
FFA 4 stage training is like this.
1. Warm Up/Passing Practice. KNVB calls it remedial technique practice.
In this stage of training individual technique acquisition and improvement should be the aim of a 20 minute session. FFA decrees that it must involve movement and passing. The KNVB doesn't.
2. Positioning Games
These involve SSGs with players having active defensive opposition. This is supposedly the precursor to the Game Training.
3. Game Training
This is usually defence and midfield versus midfield and attack. Often 8v8 with keepers. A coach does most of the active coaching through player actions and coaching cues in this phase.
4. Training Game.
This is where a coach supposedly observes to see if players have improved in the session objective, relating to the most important weakness identified in the previous week's game.
This is the stage I rarely get to.
What I've decoded to do is split 1) Warm Up, into limited movement of players, to accrue high numbers of touches to improve technique. Then add the movement with the technical work. The rep players I've coached this year, particularly ones who've previously been in the SAP , don't seem to perceive the technical work without a lot of movement and running, as being as important.
I've often used the practice games against clubs as the Training Game.
Edited by Decentric: 8/8/2013 12:53:22 AM
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