Judy Free wrote:It's important that coaches can demonstrate technique - if you can't you're fucked and become non-believable to your students.
And sometimes that needs to be done in a game situation.
I have no probs jumping in occasionally, if and when the occasion suits e.g. demonstrating or when the mood is light-hearted.
However, to go into a game situation on a regular basis when coaching elite 13+ year olds is a recipe for personal disaster. That is, they'll make you look like a dick. I dislike being nutmegged.
Good post, Judy.:)
That is apart from references to copulation!!!!
You might have to revise your jockeying technique.#-o
We demonstrate no end of explicit techniques at FFE , demonstrating them in incremental form. The two head coaches of FFE are in their mid-fifties and are very likely to do an injury, if we played at all in SSGs.
I feel aches and pains just from a lot of demonstration of techniques in a 120 minute coaching session at my age.:oops:
Apart from declining pace/mobility and lack of anaerobic fitness, some coaches consider we improve technique as we get older. Many of us are coaching in a much, much more technical manner than how we were coached.
Edited by Decentric: 11/8/2011 06:07:37 PM