This is the first full week of the ‘Stay at Home’ order in Kansas. The schools are out for the spring, the league has been delayed until the end of April and now everyone has been asked to keep their distance if they have to be in public. I think I’ve been every bit as busy as I would be if we were training. All the extra work to put things together for the club, the age groups I direct and my own teams has been a real challenge. The recreational league … [Read more...]
#225 The Art of Using Guided Questions
My games last weekend were really a tale of two entirely different days. On Saturday my teams played well and were very successful. Part of that could have been due to the fact that we played teams that were were just better than. On Sunday the games were very challenging. Especially the game with my U12 who played a very good U13 team. There's such a big developmental difference between U12's and U13's that it was like young women playing little girls. It was … [Read more...]
#221 Coaching Conversation – Robert Scott
I continued to focus on defending with my teams this week. With the younger teams it was more about individual defending while the older teams worked on defending as a team in preparation for the US Youth Futsal Nationals this weekend. During the session I wondered if I might be spending too much time on defending. Would that time be better spent on improving the player's attacking understanding and abilities? Then I realized that even though I hadn't been … [Read more...]
#220 Five Year Review
The last two weeks have been crazy; I finish the second meeting for the Grassroots Instructor's License Wednesday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. The first meeting back in November covered the course content for the Grassroots In-Person Courses (4v4 through 11v11). The second meeting was focused on presenting the D License Course. The D is like getting an advanced degree in the Play - Practice - Play methodology. It involved applying this to not only one … [Read more...]
#219 Coaching Conversation with Mario Zúñiga
Last weekend we had the U.S. Youth Futsal Central Regional Championship. It was a long weekend with all four of my teams participating. Two of the teams were actually playing up an age group while the other two played with teams their own age. The teams played up because they won't have been challenged in their own age group. I think that playing up in Futsal is even more difficult that playing up outdoor. This is due, in part, to the fact that the referees … [Read more...]
#218 Developing as a Coach
I've been working through some issues I've had with the audio quality of the podcast for the last few weeks. I'd appreciate it if you would leave a comment below if you've noticed a problem in previous episodes and if it's been resolved in this one. If you haven't noticed a issue then I'd like to know that as well. My teams were supposed to play their first games after the winter break last week. The goal of those game was to prepare for the US Youth Futsal … [Read more...]
#215 Increasing Injury Rates Among High School Athletes
I'm into the flow of Futsal practices and games at this point. My teams are training less during the week but the weekends are crazing because most of my teams are split into two teams for the league. This gives them more playing time but that means more games for me. It's worth it though. The teams are all progressing nicely. I have a slightly different focus with each team. With the younger teams we're talking a lot about using the skills that are more … [Read more...]
#213 Using Technology to Improve Your Coaching
I had last weekend completely off. No games! I always take the first weekend of the futsal season off. This provides a welcome break between the outdoor and indoor seasons. It also gives me one more week of practice with my teams before we play our first futsal games. For the first two weeks of indoor practice we focused on finding the openings or creating the openings when attacking. This week we switched and worked on defending so it was all about closing … [Read more...]
#212 Attending a Coaching Course
Since I didn't have a podcast last week I have to catch you up on what I've been up to. Two weeks ago I had my last outdoor tournament of the fall. Two teams played in the tournament and it was a great way to wrap up the season. I go into all of the details about the weekend in the episode. We had our first two weeks of futsal training sessions in the last two weeks. Moving indoors changes our focus a bit because we don't have the space to run the Play - … [Read more...]
#211 Should Coaches Train their Own Children
With only one game last weekend it left me with a lot of time on my hands. Saturday consisted of work around the house to get it ready for the winter (which seems to have started already!). My game on Sunday was at 8 am but first I decided to get up early and watch the Rugby World Cup Semi-Final between Wales and South Africa. That started at 4 am my time. I love watching the knockout rounds of just about any sport. The intensity and drama are something that … [Read more...]
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