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AFL How To Improve Your Kicking Mechanics

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- important to develop a structured framework for practitioners to consider when developing, assessing new assessments of technical skill
- During matches technical, tactical, physical and psychological components are all working in unison at maximum intensity and pressure
- 5 level Performance Assessment Model (PAM)
Level 1. Lab Test
Level 2. Field-based Test (Static)
Level 3. Field-based Test (Dynamic)
Level 4. Field-based Test (small sided game)
Level 5. Match Play
- Tests should represent matches and assessed with an integrated approach

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The best ways to train for skill development

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The best ways to train for skill development

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- Challenges conventional thinking on how practice is organised in an AFL high performance coaching environment

- Coaches should be aware of the differences between short-term performance improvement and an actual permanent learning gain

- Kicking in pairs is a wasteful activity, and provides little transfer to competition settings. Training should incorporate kicking in pairs over different distances, changing kicking directions or adding a defender against the player who is marking
- There is no perceptual-decision-making component by doing "lane-work drills"
- Questions that 10,000 deliberate practice hours are required to reach 'expert' status in a skill practiced (as Ericsson proposed 1993)

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How skill acquisition and decision making is improved through relevant games in different team sports

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How skill acquisition and decision making is improved through relevant games in different team sports

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- Traditional practices neglect active roles in the performance environment
- Information in team sports changes instantaneously
- Simulated versions of major games that capture interpersonal interactions are important
- research in group dynamics suggest that skill acquisition tasks need to be predicted on how well they are performed in small sided games rather than practice drills in a static environment

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Problem solving for the player through 'game sense'

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Problem solving for the player through 'game sense'

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- Learning is a problem solving process
- traditional drills are not as beneficial as a game sense approach which focuses on initial skills being taught through play
- This approach promotes effective decision making and problem solving
- 'Player centred' and not 'coach centred' meaning players feel more empowered and in control of their learning by sharing their thoughts and helping their team-mates out
- A wider focus of attention through game sense and adapts being attentive to more than one primary task

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Kicking Guide (for Coaches) - 3.Teaching Kicking

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- Game based activities are potentially more challenging to the player because it has associated been  to greater cognitive effort

- Activities replicating the alternatives within the dynamics, of the player, environment and elements that are constantly changing in a game are more likely to transfer from practice to a game

- Reduce uncertainty through awareness of what should happen to a player individually and collectively as a team

- Drills shouldn't be eliminated completely, just modified to suit the requirements of a game situation

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If the modern game of elite AFL is so much more advanced in the knowledge, science and analysis  of a player's kick then why can't players still get the fundamentals at times?

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If the modern game of elite AFL is so much more advanced in the knowledge, science and analysis  of a player's kick then why can't players still get the fundamentals at times?

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- line drills have historically been used in training to enhance kicking accuracy

- Current research suggests that 'training as you play' must be used to enhance kicking skills as in real life situations

- Activities that replicate the same types of kicks on game day should be adopted by coaches midweek at training

- Match simulations and scenario based training are preferred ways to train in the modern game

- 'Game sense approach' develops players to 'think' and leads to improvement in skill acquisition and performance

- This topic is important as there can sometimes be too much analysis surrounding the seemingly simple aspects of AFL - such as kicking.

- Should coaches and the high performance teams be taking different approaches when guiding training?