Come join us for a fun, interactive session looking at nutrition and how it impacts the performance of your players.
The session will include a review of theory and research findings, and an experiential workshop.
Don't know if I'll have survey data from players at that point. Regardless, I thought it might be instructive for all to use small groups (interaction is good) to
(1) describe traits and values of well- and poorly-adapted first year players,
(2) provide ratings of mothers and fathers across Authoritarian, Authoritative, and Permissive parenting styles for Hi- and Lo-Adapted players they have seen.
(3) Assuming we have enough attendees, provide 2 short role plays on dealing with (a) a recruit and parent(s), and (b) a first year player and parent(s).Is it possible that in deferring formal training for play these expert performers were on to something? We will show that their success was no accident, and that a curriculum filled with play early powers more difficult deliberate work later. We will show the how this elegant template may provide the long lost secret to player development.
What is Free Play? What does it teach?
Why is it important? And, if it's so important, why is it no one does it?
What is Deliberate Practice? How are they related?
How do they shape development?
How can we build a more cogent pathway for our kids?
SESSION OVERVIEW:
The quality of youth sport experiences is a central component to sustaining sport participation; in fact, children cite “fun” as the primary reason they continue to play. In turn, its absence is the principle explanation given for dropping out of sports. Unfortunately, recent estimates indicate participation in team sports is declining, with a 10.7 percent decrease in soccer participation among 6-12 year-olds from 2008 to 2012 (Sport and Fitness Industry Association, 2013).
Recently, research identified the determinants responsible for facilitating fun in youth sports (Visek et al., 2015) and mapped the fun-determinants into what is known as the FUN MAPS. However, it is equally critical to identify the things impeding children’s fun. In order to identify the entire scope of fun-obstacles children experience and to understand how they are interrelated, youth soccer players (n = 144), parents (n = 52), and coaches (n = 48) contributed to the development of the NOT FUN MAPS. Workshop attendees will learn how to navigate the NOT FUN MAPS, which identify 91 fun-obstacles within 12 overarching factors that get in the way of fun.
The NOT FUN MAPS will also be discussed relative to the FUN MAPS and how both can be used as data-driven frameworks to position youth soccer communities with the necessary information for developing sport programs that maximize fun, thereby leading to children’s sustained participation, skill development, and personal growth through positive sport experiences.
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Remember the "good old days" of neighborhood games, pick up baseball, basketball and pond hockey? What if pick-up soccer could be revived here in the U.S.? This is the story of Joy of the People (nickname of Garrincha) and our five-year adventure of putting a crazy theory to practice: just let the kids play. We will share our successes, mistakes, shortfalls and discoveries as we show what happened when the inmates (the kids) run the asylum.
Looking at expert performing players, talking to them, speaking with coaches and reviewing the literature, those players grew up far differently than today’s players: 1. They played at it first, a lot, mostly without coaching 2. They worked at it second, with more formalized training later, sometimes as late as the age of 16.
If this is how the best players developed, why not replicate it? If it’s important, why not place it in the curriculum? Joy of the People (JOTP) presents an elegant long term player development model, an approach to person-centered sport that combines free play and deliberate practice with long-term planning and an understanding of human development.
JOTP will show the theory behind this model and the practical implications:
1. Why is free play important?
2. What does it teach?
3. Is there a developmental window?
4. How does it relate to Deliberate Practice and the 10,000 hours?
And we will show the practical implications of the model:
1. Building the environment from the ground up
2. Methodology
3. Attributes of great free play environments
4. How to build it in your club/park/neighborhood
5. Building long term sustainability
SESSION OVERVIEW:
The intermission between the first and second periods is a time to allow players to recover and to provide strategic adjustments. However, too much rest during this interval can leave players wanting at the start of the second period. In this presentation, we will discuss potential approaches to half-time that can aid players in prepping for the second period. These include diet, hydration and a re-warm up before starting the second period. The overall goal is to give coaches several options to effectively use the half-time to enhance their team’s performance.
SESSION OVERVIEW:
This presentation will take an in-depth and interactive look at the many factors that impact those wishing to understand and deliver developmentally appropriate sessions. Example practices will be presented along with a checklist which can be used to ensure sessions and activities are developmentally appropriate.
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In this presentation, Dr. King will cover what an overuse injury is, why they occur and the types of overuse injuries commonly seen in soccer. Within each type of injury seen, Dr. King will also review signs and symptoms of that injury, best forms of treatment/what to do, and how that injury could have been prevented.
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Of the 300,000 youth soccer coaches in US Youth Soccer less than 20% of them are women. Globally there are continued conversations on how to get more women involved in coaching. This session will present the societal changes and challenges of being a female coach, the strengths women can bring to youth sport and provide strategies to engage more women in coaching.
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This lecture will focus on practical ways to film and analyze games and training live and post game, such that games/training sessions are ready for team video presentations.
1. Keys: How to capture video on the fly with no need to start, stop or rewind video — "tagging on the fly."
2. Fast and simple post game editing.
3. Choosing clips to make a presentation — Creating a story board of a match, length of clips, how many clips should correspond to a topic, and methods of speaking over the video.
4. Trend analysis and scouting. What to look for when scouting an opponent and how to keep scouting video presentations simple and concise.
5. Sharing video to the net and other laptops. Methods of transferring video clips to players for self study and highlight creation.
6. Cameras, desktops, laptops, tablets, projectors, TVs and cell phones: What hardware do I need to get started. What is the best set up for team video presentations and why?
SESSION OVERVIEW:
The concept of coaching soccer (or any invasion sport) using small-sided games is considered cognitive where integration of self-efficacy, flow and play theory occur. Self-efficacy, flow and play are considered closely related and interdependent acting as reflective and formative constructs, providing intrinsic motivation, and encouraging a player’s skill learning, performance and resilience development.