First Session

Evaluation of the first session

Tried a number of new things during the session, including questioning and the suggested player development based intervention:

Session - Possession

Drills - Used a number of the drills from the course, including the fitness based warm up drills - concluded with some of our old favorites. Early drills took a bit of adapting to but in general session tempo went well and standard was high

Interventions - Only stopped a drill once during a 2 hour session - concentrated on giving discreet individual feedback - worked incredibly well - Also used it as a method to address behaviour issues - worked very well

Testing Understanding - Used questioning throughout the session - repeatedly split the group into sub groups of 3 or 4 players, 30 secs to answer a question, then challenged the answers - can't believe how much of an impact this had - Far more powerful way of getting to grips with levels of understanding - Kids found it, fun, challenging and a bit strange. Very difficult to train my mind to centre on open questions only.

Overall good session - lots of learning points