Coaching: Simple and Effective
I have been playing Ultimate about 11 years now, since the beginning i have been teaching it for a long time but coaching a team is some other experience which i had started with ITU Team(@frizbiteknik) in 2010 and some other teaching/coaching experience but not much until now which i had just started to coach Fethiye Flamingos in late 2019. Long story short; being a captain/coach of a team is much more than it sounds!
I have been to Train The Trainer(TTT-Istanbul) course by EUF, learned so many different ways of teaching&drills by different players, worked on various tactics/games about Ultimate so far and i have tried to implement all to Fethiye Flamingos in a kind of schedule. When Martin has joined our practices we let him to do it in his coaching way. By doing this we have learned new approaches such as;
- Regardless of different level of players, making practice as much as simple and effective on fundamentals. Instead of working on a system/a stack play or else, aiming all to improve their fundamental play.
- Putting more fun to practices by simple games and challenges to make practice more enjoyable to increase attendance.
- Preparing/selecting drills for various number of groups due to unknown attendance to increase playing time instead of waiting time, letting them to focus more and killing(finishing) the practice on time(not giving more time to pick-up game or else)
Briefly much thanks to Martin for new drills/games, warming/stretching ways and such different coaching aspect.