Beginners and Rookie Players:
While non-magnetic easy wipe clean boards are often used courtside for quick visual play set-ups and/or explainations. Magnetic boards are more often used for beginner players who are just learning the game and it's foundation of zones and basic plays. Boards containing vibrant coloured semi-circles and centre circle are more useful as they clearly identinfy playing areas with little effort. Helping beginners learn faster.
Experienced and Elite Teams:
It can also be very constructively used for experience players and/or teams for tactical training. Setting up unconventional attack plays or tricks to help win very competitive games. It is also a helpful teaching aid to learn how set plays can breakdown and how to recover them strategically or switching to a varified version of that play or simply continueing with another set play. Allowing diversity as a team on the attacking end.
It is also a very useful defencive tool, helping different players and specifically GD/GK learn different manners of defending several different styles of attack play as well as reversing the above mentioned attack play to learn how to defend / break them down effectively. Players can learn visually all their different options and how the plays will shift depending on which option they follow through on. Allowing the entire team to see how one's decision can and will effect all players as well as the shifts in play and the control of the game.
Every effective post-game analysis tool if accompanied by a game recording. Allows for in-depth team assesment of turnovers and penalties. Illustrating how the play broke down and how better to support a player in that position in future (ie coming directly towards the passer within closer distance - result a safe pass). Penalty analysis permits players who are continueously call for the same thing to see their errors directly wiithout feelings of being balmed or attacked being impossed upon them; while equally providing them with a drawing board to workout future options (ie placement,movement,stance, etc).
Competition and opposing team analysis and game planning. This is a priority in Elite Competition, where video recording of future opponents games are prefered however very descriptive notations on their plays can also work. This is where team management seats down with the team to discuss how to prepare for the upcoming game. Looking at the future oppositions plays and how they call them. Allowing the team to come with defence styles and strategies. Styles could include one on one, zone and a mixture of both or rotation. Strategies can include play anticipation and interception and/or methods of how to directly influence a play into a previously planned set of events which gives the defence the greatest percentge of chance for interception. Although this might seem difficult or impossible at first i assure you it most deffinately does work from personal experience. Whether tactical training is done with your team or not, players who further their strategic knowledge on their own will find it extremely rewarding and notice lasting improvements. Knowledge is power on court!
Learning styles:
Different players will have different capabilities of learning, some are auditory, some are visual, other are hands-on. The lucky ones get a combination of all. Coaching boards can become very effective training tools if used appropriately while balancing auditory, visual and hands-on training. Those who may not excell with auditory and/or hands-on training require the visual aid of a training board. This is a useful tool for any coach and should be used as often as possible. The more frequently used the easier and faster it will be for players to register and interpret information learned from the session. |
