AFL Player Development

The book, “Training Camp” by Jon Gordon is an inspirational story filled with invaluable lessons and insights on bringing out the best in yourself and your team. The story follows a little boy named Martin Jones who was a undrafted rookie trying to make it into the NFL.. He spent his whole life proving many critics that a guy with a big heart but is small can succeed against all the odds.After Martin sprained his ankle during preseason, he thought that he lost his dream., but then he meets a very special coach. The coach was a great mentor, he shared eleven lessons about life that kept his dream alive. This help him a lot and even made him to be one of the best of the best.

The VB NSW Cup and Under 20’s premiership victories are etched in the trio’s credentials, and they say their experience of the NSW Cup set them up for long and successful NRL careers.

Herb expected his team to achieve elevated, difficult, and challenging goals. He expected his players to sacrifice their time for the greater good and the team. He instilled the importance of selflessness and teamwork into their heart and soul’s. Pushing the team to the point of exhaustion, helped them realize the level he expected them to perform at. They began to realize that giving one hundred percent was not enough, and neither was two hundred percent; nothing was ever going to be enough. He made them realize that maximum performance could always be obtained and exceeded. Herb understood his players, and understood how to get the best out of each individual player. Making their best a part of the team, made the team a strong, unbreakable unit. To have his team achieve such high expectations and goals, he had to find ways of motivating them.

In the five years since the start of his AFL skills camp, Givony has invited a number of college athletes to participate for a one week crash training course in early July. Coaches from 18 AFL teams come over to scout these athletes as they learn some of the basic skills and rules they would need in order to play Australian Rules Football at the highest level. Every year to date, 2-3 participants have been invited to attend the AFL's combine prior to the league's draft.

Eight-year-old Myzel Miller looks like a football phenom as he runs down the field displaying speed and elusiveness that is far superior to his teammates. Unlike the hive mind of most of his peers, Myzel seems to have a greater understanding of the nuances of the sport as he makes cuts and finds holes instead of only running mindlessly with the football down the field. Myzel deftly receives a handoff to the inside from the quarterback, makes one tackler miss, stiff arms the next, and carries the ball 75 yards to the end zone.

For my whole life, I have grown up watching and playing Australian Rules football, so I knew immediately that I wanted to research a particular aspect of the game. I wanted to look at the importance of skills in the AFL (Australian Rules Football) and the influence of coaches in developing these skills to improve a player’s game. These ideas came together to produce 5my research question which is “To what extent can a coach have an impact on an AFL team?” I created many sub-questions in order to break this question down into different parts. To achieve my overall aim, I needed to examine the qualities, which a coach possessed, in order to get the best out of his AFL team. I used interviews with past and present AFL players and

Training every day for 4 times a week at school, surrounded by elite state and national players at the college where soccer excellence and high standards are the norm. I felt the pressure of high expectations weighing on me. The intensity of training, combined with the talent of my teammates who were all in NPL (National Premier League) teams, left me feeling out of place and overshadowed. This was the start of my determination to earn a spot in an NPL team, relating to Michelle Payne’s childhood aspiration, “I just want to win the Melbourne

When were young, we dream of what we want to be when we grow up. Some will say, a police officer, a firefighter, a movie star, a doctor, and maybe even a teacher. There are probably many other choices, but mine was to be an NFL Football Player. This is not a dream I share alone as many other youths envision this dream too. So, we go out to parks and play the great American sport and pretend to be our favorite player. Growing up a Cowboy fan I would always pretend I was NFL great Emmitt Smith. So many of our youth still do the same as I work at an elementary school and here kids all the time at recess yell out football term such as “O’DELL” when a great catch is made, or “HOUSE” when some is apparently going to score a touchdown without contest. These action bring joy to my heart and tears to my eyes. This feeling is short lived though, as the Recess Supervisor usually ends the game because it is not a recess permitted activity. After it has concluded I ask myself “why is this game that promotes fitness so bad that they cannot even play it in a structured time of day that promotes physical activity?” The answer lies in the topic of a big social debate on youth football and its safety. Recent, I watch a episode of South Park that addressed this. Many social issues are viewed in this show in an entertain way. The episode show how parents growing concern over the safety of the sport lead to the modification of the game in an event the show called “ Sarcastaball” in which the

Although the origins of Australian rules football may be disputed throughout the wider sporting community, the influence of Aboriginal Australians on the game is undisputed. The way they have shaped the game, either through their amazing footballing abilities on the field or their efforts to change the way Aboriginal people are perceived and treated. They have used there status as great footballers to their advantage and helped the people of their communities and many generations of Aboriginal people to come.

We introduced this model to help the young learners understand that technical ability unaccompanied will not be enough on the pathway to excellence. They must understand that barriers or challenges such as injuries, growth spurts, external pressures, financial issues and self doubt could all potentially face them as they grow and develop in the game. To add to the complexity of the 4 corner model even cultural, faith and ethnic issues which arise with diverse groups are taken into account.

I enjoyed playing high school and college basketball, however after suffering from a life changing permanent injury I couldn’t continue being an active player on my team. Nonetheless, I did not want to allow this injury to ruin my passion for the sport. Consequently, I chose to invest lots of hours into learning the coaching and recruiting characteristics of the sport. Reading Bruce Tuckman’s iconic description of the stages of group development has really made it easy for me to understand my experience during the time I attended a coaching basketball camp with nine other prospective upcoming basketball coaches like myself.

To begin looking at a football team it would first be beneficial to examine the normative behaviors associated with the adolescent period in a child’s life. The adolescent period of one’s life is often marked by moodiness, being short-tempered, and easily angered (citation). The above characteristics are often due to the hormonal and physical changes that accompany this time period. Not only are there changes occurring to the individual, changes are also occurring within peer

A case study explains how a 26-year-old male who plays rugby at international level is suffering from a growing level of underachievement with his current performance. He has also described himself as feeling low, anxious, lacking motivation and insomnia (McArdle & Moore, 2012). To understand why the client is facing these difficulties a generic model would have to be employed, in this case the five aspects model (Greenberger & Padesky, 1995). The client psychological process and behaviours was also determined using the Socratic method (Grant et al., 2009). To then evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention it must be compared to the intended goals of the study. In an event that hardly any progress has been made by the client the practitioner will have to question their formulation as the formulation provide the rationale for the intervention (Beck 1995; Grant et al.

AFL players inspire young people all around Australia because meeting one of your idols at such a young age is invaluable. It inspires children to achieve dreams and overcome roadblocks, plus it encourages them to lead active and healthy lives. Many AFL players’ lead generous lives look at Collingwood defender Harry O'Brien who spends a significant part of his off-season in Africa, working with local communities and Brisbane Lions captain Jonathan Brown frequently has a kick around with the kids of Brisbane. The bottom line is that nearly 20 per cent of children see sports stars as role models.

For a lot of kids, it’s not until it’s all said and done, and they look back on it several years later, that they realize the difference the sport made in their lives. They are proud of playing the game. Have you ever met anybody who accomplished playing four years of high school football, and at the end of that run said, ‘Man, I wish I wouldn’t have played’? It doesn’t get said. Football players aren’t perfect. Nobody is. But millions of former players, one by one, can recount the life-altering principles they learned from football. They know the value of football is the values in football.That’s why high school football – and particularly high school coaches – play such a vital role in our society. Our football coaches are on the front lines of the battle for the hearts and minds of the boys in our society.