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Push pass your limits…..
Motivation
I am starting this blog as a way to collect my increasing soccer coaching knowledge to share with the parents of the children I coach and to track lessons learned as I work hard to improve myself as a coach and a mentor. The impetus for this work comes from my recent completion of the USSF "E" Course. This 18 hour course is designed to take the parent coach and provide them with the knowledge, skills, and training required to properly run practice sessions with a focus on the technical aspects of the game. It also helps the coach with game management and preparation, team building, first aid, and many other aspects of coaching that may not initially be obvious.
I am going to attempt to use this forum as a place to collect my training session plans. It is my hope that I am a coach not only for my children's teams in the coming years, but also to improve and coach at higher levels. A common theme I've seen after speaking with several coaches who have had many years in the profession is how they have not kept the training sessions they created. I want to be able to look up on this blog a Coaching Point, such as Fundamentals of a Push Pass, and find the training sessions I've written or given that have focused on this skill. This library will at first be very limited and will grow over the seasons as I become a more experienced coach.
I also hope this blog will be a conduit to the parents of the children I coach. I want them to be able to look on this blog and see the training plan I have in mind for any given session. This training plan should identify the desired technical/coaching points I hope to focus on in a succinct manner and the various activities and games I will use to re-enforce/teach those points. This should help parents learn a little about what their children are working on at their practice sessions and what direction I am trying to take the team.
Finally, this blog should be a way to communicate and SHARE ideas with my assistant coaches and parents. My assistants will know ahead of time what I want to work on and also be able to contribute their own knowledge and insight of the game to the session plans. Parents, assistants, and myself will also be able to comment on any given post or session plan. This should help us identify what activities work and which ones breakdown and WHY!
So welcome to my little corner of the blogging universe and I hope you will gain some benefit from reading along. I have outlined some lofty goals and I will strive to achieve them.
"Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal." Vince Lombardi
