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Playing Like a Pro: Kicking

Playing Like a Pro: Kicking

Learn how to kick like a pro with AFL legends Matthew Loyd and Gary Lyons.

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Playing Like a Pro: Handballing

Playing Like a Pro: Handballing

Learn how to handball like a pro with AFL players Brent Stanton and Jobe Watson.

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Playing Like a Pro: Ball Handling

Playing Like a Pro: Ball Handling

Learn how to handle the ball like a pro with AFL players Scott Pendlebury and Alan Didak.

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AFL Level 1 Coaching Manual

The Coach - The Official AFL Level 1 Coaching Manual: standards and guidelines for conduct, tactics, injury prevention, training and more.

Coaching manuals tailored for youth and juniors are available at AFL Community Club.

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Coaching Edge

Coaching Edge is published by the AFL and is a continuation of the respected magazine Coaching Update, which was first published in April 1988 after the VFL assumed responsibility for football development in Victoria and formed the Australian Football Coaches Association (AFCA) Vic Branch in 1987. There was also a predecessor, Australian Football Coach, published by SANFL from 1972 until 1975.

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Gameday Coaching

Gameday Coaching

Neale Daniher looks at four areas of Gameday Coaching including midweek preparation, pre-game, game on, and postgame

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The Art of Ruckwork

The Art of Ruckwork

This video looks specifically at the role of the ruckman and techniques for ruckman at the center bounce, boundary throw ins, and stoppages around the grounds.

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Tempo/Interval Training

Tempo Training / Interval Training. 6 weeks. Lowering your two mile time trial

This plan is to introduce Tempo training sessions to your weekly training sessions. The sessions I am recommending do actually border onto interval training so the step up to that more intensive type of workout wont be a big step when that occurs.

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Pre-training Skill Sets

The goal of these warmup skill sets is to get 1000 touches

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Training Skills Sets

Session 1

In pairs with 1 football each

  • 50 right hand handballs
  • 50 left hand handballs
  • 100 handballs alternating each hand
  • 50 1/2 volley/handball up then swap over
  • 25 handball / quick kicks on each leg then swap over
  • 3 balls between 2 players handballing.  Keep one ball in the air. Stop at 50 in a row
  • 10m kicking in pairs with opposite foot until training starts

Session 2

1 ball per player

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