You know it’s too cold for soccer practice when you put cones out for an activity and when you pick them up 30 minutes later they’re covered in frost
Entries Tagged ‘practice’
Sports Training Journal for Girls
Sometimes it can be difficult to get younger players to think about how they are practicing and if they’re giving full effort. Over at Sports Girls Play, they have come up with an interesting concept for girls to track their development in practice and help them get motivated.
Chicks on Moons
Many teams require their players to wear matching ‘practice attire’. Is it worth doing, and if so, can it help team spirit? I gave it a shot with my team to find out.
Time To Get Serious
As the 2008/2009 season approaches, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time thinking about how to approach the season for my U12 Girls team. We had almost all of our players return, so Tales From The Lunachick Fringe will continue, but now it’s time to get serious.
CoachDeck – Practicing With A Full Deck
I recently received a sample of an interesting instructional product to help soccer coaches run drills in practice. While most ‘how to coach soccer’ products are books or DVDs with full illustrations and text, the CoachDeck for soccer is just that. A deck of cards, each with a different drill, broken up into four different [...]
Who Let The Coaches Out? Who? Who? Who? Who?
We recently had some coaches come in to hold a demonstration clinic for our Challenge coaches. They demonstrated a variety of drills they like to run the kids through and it was a lot of fun. They did one thing I found really interesting. They brought a boombox with a CD full of music with [...]
