Friday 12th October: Worcester Goalkeeping Academy
Session 2
This session started with me being introduced to Ashley an
experienced and well qualified goalkeeping coach who I would be working with
this evening. It was good to see how Ashley works as he was clearly a very good
coach. We talked about what sort of things we should work on during the session
and decided on footwork and handling as they are clearly key aspects of a
goalkeeper’s game. We set up the 1st drill and then the goalkeepers
arrived to start the session.
Ashley led a brief warm-up before asking me to do some
dynamic stretching with the ‘keepers. I duly did this and took them through
some basic dynamic stretching such as open the gate and close the gate. After I
had finished doing this we went back over to Ashley and started the 1st
drill. I went in a pair with Freddy as we had an odd number, the same as last
week. We did a basic footwork drill which involved me shouting out a number and
Freddie side footing his was to the cone whilst always looking forwards at me,
the server. Once Freddie had touched the cone he would have to set himself back
in the middle ready for me to volley the ball straight at him. This was a good
experience for me has I was able to help Freddie with a number of aspects of
his footwork, particularly making sure he kept his body facing forwards. After
this we continued to do some work on footwork with handling and I helped Mike
with his handling because he was not using the W shape in his hands, often
causing him to spill the ball. Once we went through the 'W' technique for
catching the ball properly I saw a large improvement of Mikes handling, I just
had to keep reminding him about it so he got into the rhythm of doing it every time.
We finished with small game where the goalkeepers would have
to turn away from goal wait for the shout from Ashley saying ‘turn’ then a shot
would come at them from one of 3 angles meaning they had to react to it. They
would then have to try and catch it. If they spilled it one of the other 2
goalkeepers could try and tap it in, ‘sniffers’. If the goalkeeper didn’t let a
goal in after 3 shots he had kept a clean sheet and got 1 point. If the
‘sniffers’ tapped the ball in at any point they would also get 1 point. This
was a good competitive end to our little session.
As with last week all of the small groups got together at the
end to do a crossbar challenge and once again I failed to hit it. At the end
Julia came up to me and explained they were short on numbers for the next 3
weeks with coaches. She asked me whether I could lead a session on my own with
my own set of goalkeepers, I of course said yes as this will give me valuable
experience for coaching on my own. I look forwards to next week, better get
planning!
Luke Shearing
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