Transcript Planning an Effective Practice

Planning an
Effective Practice
Sue Doering
Colfax School District
[email protected]
Suedoering @gmail.com
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Philosophy
Daily Plan
Elements of a good practice
Create a Season Plan
Create unity
Create adversity
Overview
My Philosophy
Don’t have to win every match just have
to win the one that counts.
Be Competitive—never give up, fight
to the end
What will make us competitive?
Skills
Knowledge –strategies
Strengths and Weaknesses
minimize our weaknesses and take advantage
of our opponent’s
Winning attitudes
Out work every team (starts in practice)
Play your role—no matter how great or small
Want to make the big play
Willing to be aggressive and take a risk
Want every ball
What are you about?
Be Consistent (we are not perfect)
Practice makes permanent. Perfect practice makes
perfect.
Expect improvement over the season—consistency,
not perfection. Mistakes are a part of the game—
good teams play through them. The most
consistent team usually wins.
Addressing mistakes
Volleyball-- Every play ends on a mistake
How can you limit yours?
How can you make your opponent make more
mistakes?
Teach kids to play through their mistakes.
Make it a positive experience.
Players treat each other in a positive way.
Coaching with love and support vs. coaching with fear
End on a positive. (they’ll want to come back)
Even at the end of a very frustrating practice,
we will either play a fun game or come
together and process what is happening.
Try to position them for a championship—skills, strategy,
scouting, etc.
They have to win it. I’ll help them, support them,
coach them regardless of their performance---no fear,
no pressure.
Put my best athletes in a system that
benefits our strengths. Then train
them in their position.
First Part of the season:
75% time spent on skills and strategy,
25% on mental toughness and team
strategy
As the season progresses:
more time is spent on drills that
develop mental toughness and team
strategy and less on individual skill
and strategy. (the adversity piece)
Questions I am constantly asking—
Who’s my personnel?
What system will work best for my
personnel– offensively and defensively.
What are their strengths?
What are their weaknesses?
What needs to be done for the season?
What can I do for the future? (ex.:
Playing time 3rd game)
Know your competition. What will it
take to win
Never be afraid to change.
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Head Coach—
Create a program
Skills and strategies at each level (teach kids the
game)
“ If you had control of everything
what would it look like? “
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Assistant Coach---JV, C, Frosh,
Jr. High, lower
Be a team player—support your head coach.
Find out what is run at the high school.
Skills and strategy
Don’t make the head coach reteach.
BASIC PRACTICE
Warm-up and Stretch
team talk, goals for practice
Skills and Conditioningtimed, try to stay on schedule
Team or individual play
usually end with scoring:
There is a winner and loser
Teach kids to compete!
If we have competed all practice, we will end with
a fun game.
The Daily Plan
Time
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Start on time, stay on time, finish on time, don’t drag
over. If it doesn’t get done, work on it tomorrow.
Organize plans on time, try and stick to amount of
minutes given. Having everything on a time keeps things
moving
Timed water breaks (1-2 min)
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Drills--10-15 minute then change.
Helps them stay focused and mentally engaged
If you need to work longer on a skill, change drills
to work the same skill. Exception: some parts of the
game takes longer chunks of time, i.e. 20-30 min.
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Percentage of total time spent on certain skills daily: in
volleyball, 30% of time on serve, 30% serve receive,
40% on other things
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Vary drills. Alternate the pace, fast and slow. Another
example would be to condition then do a slower paced
drill.
Elements of an
Effective Practice
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Alternate offensive and defensive days:
drills on those days are specific to defense
or offense.
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Certain things are practiced every day.
pick 1 or 2 things you have to do to win
games—practice them every day.
Conditioning
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(mental toughness)
1-2 days of conditioning—ideally Mon and Tues
Vary times.
Condition at beginning then make them
concentrate on technique when tired.
Condition at the end execute skills without
fatigue factor (I do both)
Condition using the ball and skills used on
the court or on the field.
Feed back
praise, correct, praise
(Mary Poppins—spoon full of sugar)
What are they doing right? Catch them doing it.
Coach to the positive—use DO’s not DON’T’s.
Try to end practice with positive feeling.
Do everything you can to help them
want to come to practice.
Coach involvement
bring intensity (moving and talking)
Demand and expect their involvement--physically,
mentally, emotionally
Intensity---Should build during the week
Jim Rosenbeck theory---1 or 2 perfect performances
Move through the week and build in intensity
Learn to coach through your leadership—
I add pressure situations and stress starting at
the beginning of the season and have kids work
through it as a team.
Use your captains and leadership in problem solving
Why is a drill or skill breaking down?
What do we have to do to execute as a team?
How do we get our team to execute with or
without pressure?
Social
Kids are social.
Allow time to talk, then move on. They
have to learn self discipline. They have
to know when to work and when to play.
Some kids have to be taught how to get
back to work. Play and fun is important
for younger players because you want
them to love the game and stick with it.
We don’t waste a lot of time but we do talk
and laugh during warm-ups.
Once practice gets going it is about getting
things done. (If something is funny—
have fun.)
Be specific about which times are important
for concentrating.
Certain skills are no talk and total
concentration---ex. serving in volleyball,
free throws in basketball
The younger the kids are, the more time is
spent doing fun drills and mini games.
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
HEADED
GOALS---attainable, observable,
measurable
Long Term
season goals both team and individual
Short Term
weekly due on Monday
3 skill, 1 attitude, and 1-2 team
goals
The Overall Plan
Season starts for me, as my husband says,
scouting at state for the following year.
 I check other teams—offensive and defensive
systems, players, tendencies, serve receive
patterns.
 I look at coaching styles, coaching systems
and schemes.
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Summertime (13 days)
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Personal Camp
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Summer League—free, whoever shows up
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Team Camp
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2-3 Tournaments
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Open gyms, weight lifting
 Send a letter 3 weeks before the season
starts. This includes a workout with
conditioning and ball workout
Season Plan
Preseason and Early Season
Midseason
End of Season
Preseason and early season
are centered primarily around developing
my individual players, their skills and
strategies. Establishing our offensive
system and defensive system
Focus on conditioning, basic fundamentals,
some team play (depending on team level)
 I want individuals to have strong fundamentals
and team concepts
 Add enough team play to be competitive
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Establish Roles
—they could change.
Where do I see them fitting in?
What are their strengths and what do they
need to work on?
 Where do I need them to improve?
 What holes do I need someone to fill?
 Team strengths and weaknesses
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Preseason/Early Season
Establish team chemistryOnly positive comments,
 leadership, train court leader(s), competitive
thinking
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My focus in matches.
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Take League 1 match at a time—working on
individual skills and offense and defensive system.
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Take my best athletes and train them to do what I
want and need them to do. Look at performances
—wishes and pluses (What we wish would have
happened. What positives did happen.)
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How can we get our best performance?
What do we need to work on for the next match?
Midseason
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Focus on combination drills, complex skills,
review basics-1 skill a day, more team play
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Revisit goals. This is the tough part of season.
Obstacles such as homecoming, long road trips,
midterms provide distractions and can derail a
team.
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Play certain stretches of points that are giving
us problems from each rotation. 0-5, 10-15,
15-20.
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Keep reinforcing system—ideal play
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Prepare for important league matches—might
watch film
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Try and add something new. Keeps things
fresh. I never want to be the same team at the
end of the season
Skills should build upon each other, add
something new to prevent boredom.
Midseason
End of season
Intensity picks up
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Team drills, review complex drills,
revisit goals, game situations
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For playoffs, I set up situations and use
score clock
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Work on specific substitutions at
specific times
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Be a perfectionist—Don’t let little
things slide: I demand execution.
End of Season
Create Unity
Done throughout season
 Unity is about trust.
 Unity promotes enthusiasm and communication.
 Unity helps your team solve problems together
Helps them work together more efficiently
Develop your leadership--I do frustration drills, drills that find breaking
point of team and individuals. The leaders have
to figure out how to work through frustrations
and adversity. They need to know who can
work through it.
Validation---”gold starring”
We validate each player’s strengths.
 Discuss individual roles and what situations we
would use them in.
 Players tell us (coaches and teammates) what
they need from us in a pressure situation.
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Each team member should know what they
have to do to help their teammates play
better.
Create adversity
Every game has moments of adversity.
Adversity teaches me about my players’
attitudes and behaviors. Also I find out
what my players need from me.
It is critical for the team to be tough and able
to work through adversity together.
Fight or flight
 Which players are your fighters ? (Which would rather
flee?)
 Who are your clutch players?
 Who do you need on the court or field to make kids
play better? (Chemistry)
Trains them to become risk takers
Train all athletes, individual and team, to want to take
the risk.
 Teaches players to stay aggressive. Usually the
team that stays aggressive and plays strong will win
the game. I want them to learn to stay aggressive
even when things aren’t going their way.
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Mental practice
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—visualization—see themselves doing the skill
that wins the game and feeling all those
emotions when it happens.
Physical Practice
Here coaching with fear and punishment often
makes teams implode—fight among
themselves, break emotionally, and physically
Use practices—create pressure so they must focus
and concentrate in the pressure situation
Use frustration drills in practice where you push
them to their limits especially your key players, .
Make them start drills over. Call bad calls against
them. Make them earn their way out of situations.
Train them to handle stressful times and work through
them (individually and as a team)
Try everything during the season—what works, what
doesn’t.
Pray we get put in every situation we need to.
Ask for feedback—individuals, team, captains, assistant
coaches
End of the season
The last couple of weeks we do a lot of
running laps if balls drop or the team
looses. We talk about visualizing –seeing
themselves win the game. If you
concentrate on the game and talk, your
body will relax and you will play smooth.
I should know what I have to do to help
my players play their best.
-I know what my players look like when they
are playing well. (that might not be
reflected by the score at that time)
-At the end of the season, I know if I can yell
or have to be soft spoken. I know when I
have to sub.
- When it comes down to it, my players know
that I will do whatever it takes to win the
game.
Planning an
Effective Practice
Sue Doering
Colfax School District
[email protected]
Suedoering @gmail.com