Today I had the opportunity to watch the Australian Men's hockey team go through training, and I once again realise how important innovation at hockey training is, that Coaches need to stop wanting to be the centre of attention, and work with there fellow coaches and their players to come up with new innovations at training, which keep training interesting and challenging, while still keep the basic principles of what we need to develop at training in place.
So what sort of innovations am I talking about-
- Shifting training to the grass from time to time, this will help to improve the players core skills, and also help them to further develop their ability to read the play and the game.
- Bringing in other similar sports, with similar skills, such as Netball, AFL, soccer to encourage your players to think outside the square.
- Drills that are not simply busy work, but have a clear purpose and are as much as possible about Game scenario's and tougher than anything that you will likely encounter in a game.
- allowing players to take on a run different aspects of training so you as the coach can step back and watch and observe, as well as be able to pull players aside and work on specific skill areas.
So innovation is crucial to training in my book as a coach. I welcome other thoughts and comments-
How do you innovate with your training?
Let us know.
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