 Dyma y gallwn i'n cael saith a'i wneud gyflym ar edges ond y dyma yn ymgyrch. Mae'r cyfrifiad Terry Barton, rydyn ni'n'n ddiadadau yma o fewn deallu môl. Mwneud am ddechrau'r ddechrau'r rôl ar yr cyfrifiad. Mae rydym yn momentau'r coi ac rwy'n mynd i'ch roi'r cyfrifiad, pan oedd yn oes yn ystod y gweithion o'r llwyddiad rwynt wedi eu cyfrifiad ar gyfer swyddiadau. maen nhw'n gyflwytiad cynghorwm a'r ymgyrch yn eich haf. Yn y bwrdd ei fath gennym diwrnod ydym nhw, ac mae'r trunau ar gyfer y byd eich holl, mae'r nyfodd.." ..a'r ff shortylus felly o'r ff shortylus ysgufyr yma o'i gydweithio... ..i'r hynny wedi eu hwnnw o'n gyflwyteiddiol yn y meddwl am gwell. ac mae'n mynd i gyd yn ymweld fynd ymweld y cofnirio i fynd i'w ddechrau'r amser yn ddiolch yn dyfodol, mae'n dduch yn ymweld i'w ddweud. Ond, o adeiladwch yn ddweud o'r staf wahanol, roedd ystod o ffordd ym ardechrau'n gyfnodol yn y Llyfrgell. Mae'n ddweud o'r staf ymweld i'w ddweud. First one is that children play outside about half as much as parents did 20 years ago, so children don't go out and play in the same way and anybody who's on this call will be well aware of that, especially if you have your own children. So that's quite a sobering thought to think that children are spending 50% less outside during the weekend at the weekend than than people were doing 20 plus years ago. Lots of factors for that, which we won't go into the children's lives are busier fundamentally they've got more things going on. So that's kind of stat number one stat number two, which was found through a very large Australian study, which took place over many years found that children in the modern day take about one minute 30 seconds longer to run a mile than children did in the 1980s and early 1990s. So that's a really sobering thought as well because what it essentially means is that the children are not as fit as they used to be. And if you're coaching the game, you'll probably have noticed it. It's one of the hardest challenges I think we have as coaches is to give that motivation or encourage that motivation within children to take part in as much physical activity that they can, whether that's within soccer or not. So there's lots of kind of things that are putting pressure on children, which means that they're not practicing sport as much they're not playing football specifically as much. It's not played in schools as much as it used to be. They are almost entirely forced into formal learning for football. So that puts a huge pressure on coaches because it's now your responsibility, my responsibility, our responsibility to give our players the best possible education in a much more compressed timeframe than we had in the past. So our sessions have to be excellent. Our information has to be excellent. But with the best will in the world, if we're only working with those kids for one hour a week at training, and we've got a game at the weekend for maybe an hour, 45 minutes to an hour and a half depending on the age of those players with the best will in the world. So that kind of increasing the ability of players is still a massive challenge. Why does this have a bigger impact on football than it does for many other sports? Well, football is fundamentally a game about I foot coordination. So I'm not looking at hand I, it's foot I. So that creates lots of more complexity. The techniques that children are learning with football are more difficult to learn than sports where the hands are predominantly used. So that kind of is one of the problems we face is that it is a very complicated and difficult sport to learn. The problem that many coaches will face, depending on the age group that they coach is that because of that complexity, we tend to start football education very young. So that presents another big challenge because we're working with young people, we're working with young humans who are difficult to coach. So that's the biggest age group to coach those younger ones. But it's essential that we start soccer players as young as possible, because that's a real opportunity for us to improve their technical ability. Football, not just for playing sport, but just for life in general, lots of what we teach young people within this game fall within the general physical literacy framework that you'll find for any government. So it's important that we kind of acknowledge those two things. We're starting them young and it's a complicated game. And we don't have much time to do it. So we don't have much time to teach it. So it's a perfect storm. We're coaching the most difficult game there is, team game that there is to coach. So we need as much help as we can get as coaches. So I'm going to talk through a couple of things that we've got here at the coaching manual, which will hopefully help us kind of navigate this process. So I'm just going to share a different screen. Just bear with me for a moment. This is kind of my account within the coaching manual. So coaching manual platform for those who are using it is a massive resource. There's lots of great content in here to help you kind of train your players, which you can organise however you like. I do it in very different ways to lots of people. I organise my folders based on things that I need to focus on for my individual players. So I look at things that are very age specific. So lots of content in the coaching manual. We can find that quite easily in the training ground looking into practices and then filtering by the age groups that we are working with to find stuff. So what we know is that the sessions are good and they'll work and that's fine. But what I want to talk about a little bit more tonight, rather than just focusing on putting on good training sessions, because if we're volunteer coaches or if we're paid coaches, that's kind of our job to put on as good a session as possible and make sure kids learn as much as possible. What I'm going to focus on a little bit more tonight, as we come towards the end of the season for some, I know that some of the spring seasons in the USA are kind of in the second half of those seasons and we'll be ending in kind of May time, which is around the same time that the long season that we've had in the UK ends. So it's not the part of the world like Australia. It's not the same. But what I want to talk about is how do we work with kids outside of training. So how do we help them improve when they're not on the training pitch. So there's a couple of things you can do with the coaching manual, which are worth learning. If I search just the phrase one to one, then I can see that I have lots of one to one activities that I can work on here. There's three pages of one to one activities, 16 activities per page. So there's an entire one to one training curriculum for people. Now if you're coaching your own child, then it might be something that you use with your own child. But if not, then it might be something that you can share with parents. These activities are designed to help children improve technically and to improve their fitness. So there's a mixture of strength and conditioning exercises as well as just pure technical training, which they can watch these sessions and do with their parent or with their brother or sister, or with a friend. So, and also they can be done with coaches, they can be used as part of coaching sessions. So here's a whole load of things that we can say to a kid. Here's five exercises, go and practice those, or here's here's 20 exercises and seasons coming to an end, go and practice those. So that's kind of what I do with with my team as we come to the end of the season. We have a couple of probably three weeks off, but I'll give them some activities so that when they are out there and having fun and playing and doing whatever they do in their downtime, they've got some things that they can work on that will help them. No pressure. I'm not recording any of that, I'm just saying here's stuff. If you're keen and you're motivated, go and do it. What else can we do? Another search that we can look on is ball mastery. So if I search for ball mastery and click on view all practices, then I can see all of the ball mastery activities that are inside the platform again. There's six pages, eight pages of activities here, so loads and loads of ball mastery. Now some of these ball mastery activities are sessions and practices, but a lot of them are just playing skills that they can go and do on their own and learn in their own time essentially. So lots of ball mastery activities that I can give to the kids. Ball mastery is the basic fundamental building blocks of technique. So if we think of the development of young players, the way that we think about it at the coaching manual is that we start with technique. Technique becomes something that is given to players very early on. My own particular experience of this was for the first five years of coaching them, ball mastery was a part of every single practice that we did. Or some form of technique training, whether that was passing, dribbling, controlling the ball, but there was always some basic ball mastery activities. Because without technique, you can't execute the different parts of the game that you need to be able to execute as you develop. So again, going back to the idea that we're working with young kids, there's a big challenge because you do stuff with them and it doesn't work and it gets frustrating for you as a coach for them as a child. You just have to stick with it and you have to find a way to help the child stick with it by making it fun, by making it obvious that you notice the improvement that they make. It's hard working with kids sometimes because the improvement that you see might not be the same as somebody who's not seen them for four weeks, you might see a huge step forward. So techniques important. Without technique, the game is very difficult to play, virtually impossible. We would then layer onto the technique, the idea of the mechanics of the game, so the principles of play, how does the game work? Technique mechanics, the building blocks, if you like, so that they can start to understand how different things in the game are supposed to happen. That's what I did entirely for the first six years of training that the boys that I was working with, not really any tactical approach. The sixth really is the icing on top. So master the techniques, understand the mechanics, be able to execute the mechanics using the techniques, and then we can start to layer tactical understanding on further down the line. And that really is the same with every single development model in the world. It's why we play small sided games because it gives us more opportunity to get touches on the ball. It's why we kind of follow that through in small sided games all the way up to the 11 aside game tactics don't really apply until 11 aside, but there's always a bit of a risk of coaches thinking well, I'm going to introduce a tactic that's going to help me win with younger players, ie going long because I've got to fast forward. That could actually be detrimental to the development of players because you're not teaching them how the mechanics of the game actually work in terms of playing through creating space creating width and doing all of those other things, which are going to be really important to them when they get a bit older, and those physical advantages start to disappear. That's important that we focus on technique, we focus on mechanics. And I've put a couple of links in the chat box so that you can have a look at those links the links for ball mastery and one to one. How do we get players to see this stuff. Well, I've introduced my players into the coaching manual platform so I've actually added added all of those in. Now they in order to see the video content, then they need to be able to they need to be able to access that so I've also put a link in there which is a simple link to help players get signed up which you can share with players. We can then sign them up you can then add them to a team, you can then share those technique videos and those one to one things with them so that they can watch them do them at home and whatever. The techniques important, we know that. So what's the next thing that that's really important I think in terms of engaging with players. Well we've got to make it fun. We've got to find a way to create players who are self motivated. So I'm going to share something else now, and I'll walk through how this works for the purposes of what we're talking about tonight. So we've got top techers, which is our technical training tool. So this is free for coaches, you can sign up and you can invite players in. There's actually a chunk of things that are free for players as well. So I'm going to log in. I'm logging in as a coach and parents I just need to press the bottom and I'll just log into my account and I'll show you what this is all about. This is something that I give to players so that I do have some insight into what they're doing. And also a way for me to make this fun for them so that they are doing stuff that's going to benefit them in the off season. So that I can then I can then kind of work with them on those different techniques when we come back for preseason training and a mixture of fitness and technical skills throughout the summer. Hopefully means that they come back in good condition, ready to play. So techers is something that we developed to help plug those gaps between training sessions when you don't have the players with you, but you still want them to do some meaningful practice. So technique is important, but the right technique is equally important. I learned to do something I think it was Michael Jordan said if you if you learn to shoot proper incorrectly 1000 times all you're doing is learning to shoot incorrectly. So what we've created in top techers is correct technique for lots of different types of activity. So with my team, which I've added and I've got my players all set up in here. What I've done is I've created a learning plan for them. So this has got a bunch of different techniques that I can go and watch as a coach with the correct coaching points. This is also something that the children can watch so that they've got a lesson plan that they can follow within the platform. And this is kind of step one, it's actually here's some techniques and here's how you can practice them. Then what I can do is I've got a leaderboard so every week, every month during the off season, I just take a snapshot of the leaderboard based on the filtering that by the dates. So I can filter by the dates and and put in the correct dates. And then I can share the leaderboard with my players and say, okay, this is who's at the top of the leaderboard, you're going to win a bag of Haribo or whatever it is at the end of the month. So it's starting to create competition because the boys want to be the best. We're not measuring necessarily who's the best here, we're measuring who's practicing the most. When I go into each of my players and have a look at what they've been up to, I get a really good understanding of what they've been working on, the skills that they've got, the trophies that they've achieved. So I have a really good record of what they've been up to and what they've been doing within the app. Because they're in a league table and they're competing with each other, we're making it something that they can do where they've not necessarily together, it might be in the garden, it might be in the yard, but they can work on it. In the summer, obviously they can go to the local park and they can, they can do some of this stuff themselves, these boys are under 13 so they usually kicked out of the house in the morning and told to go and do stuff. So what does that do for the child? So how does it affect the child? What does the child see? So I'll go and log into my son's account and give you an idea. It's about making them, giving them motivation, it's about giving them responsibility. If we look at a physical literacy framework, we're looking for people who are competent. We're looking for people who take responsibility for their own physical activity and fitness. We're looking for people who are self-motivated in physical activity and fitness. Because what we know is that by doing that it generates an internal drive for people to improve. So he can watch his, he can go and look at the learning plan, he can go into any of those activities, he can watch those videos and he can view the challenge, see what the scores are for that challenge, and then he can enter those scores so that he creates a record in time of him achieving a score on something. He can also see the leaderboards so he can get a good sense of how he's comparing against his peers. He can also go and have a look at how he compares on a global basis so we can see how he's comparing against children from all over the world who are using top-techers and have a look at what their scores are and how they're progressing. If he wants to get more motivated he can try and win the global leaderboard for the month, but really what he's trying to do is be the best in his team. So the correct technique is important. It's what separates average players from good players. Good technique will create much more time on the ball for players who have got good technique. Players who have average technique will have less time on the ball, they'll have less time to make decisions, they'll have less time to make the right decisions in the game, and that's fundamentally what we're trying to teach these children. So that's kind of what we're doing over the break. We've got a bunch of activities from the coaching manual that I already use and I use the training sessions so I always know that the training sessions are great, but on top of that we're adding this ability for kids to actually start to take responsibility for their own training, obviously under the guidance of a coach. Just a quick thing about kind of if you do set yourself up as a coach, it's really easy to go and invite your players in. They don't have to pay anything straight away, they can just access some of the skills, see some of the techniques and then they can kind of make a decision on whether or not they want to go further with it so there's no kind of pressure on them. It's free for coaches and free to an extent for players, but all I need to do is go in, request a connection with a parent and enter their email name, choose the team that they're part of, click request connection and then it sends them an invite. So it's dead simple to get up and running with it and it's really straightforward to use for you as a coach in terms of creating those teams and sharing those lesson plans and it's really simple for kids, they can go in and they can practice to their hearts content. The only thing I would say is that the monthly competitions really help, especially if you are giving them something like a packet of match attacks or a bag of Harry bow doesn't have to be anything big, but having some kind of prize for actually achieving something is brilliant for children. Obviously we get man of the match awards every week and we get kind of awards for most improved at the end of the season, but this really gives children the opportunity to get rewarded for working hard and ultimately that's what we need as coaches in order to make our lives easier, we need children who are working hard to improve themselves. So that's the majority of kind of what I was going to talk about. So I'm going to answer some questions. Someone's asked how young can players start with top techers. So I would say that it can work from kind of the age of five and upwards, but it really starts to hit its sweet spot from about seven. And the reason it hits its sweet spot from about seven is because that's typically when children are in teams. So that's really when we get that idea that they can compete with their peers, their direct kind of teammates is when it can really work for them. And then it can run through all the way to, you know, I've got the under 13s in there. Once they progress from under 13s and if you're working with older players, that meant that that's when that information in the coaching manual is really powerful because the S&C work that we've done in the coaching manual was all created with a head of strength and conditioning academy here in the UK professional academy. So that's exactly what young elite athletes are doing to improve their football playing ability. It's definitely worth getting the older players into the coaching manual. They can see the sessions as well, and that obviously improves how they engage with what you're trying to teach them as a coach. So I'll answer that question five and upwards, but hits its sweet spot from seven. Any other questions that people have got? I think there's a couple coming in. Is there a maximum number of players is one question I've had, and how many teams are allowed in the app? There is no maximum number of players. So we are working with clubs who are adding entire kind of age groups across, you know, the 2010s to 2012. For example, adding 150 players in and then breaking those down into multiple different teams so you can add as many teams as you want. So it's really flexible. You can either use it as an individual team. If you're a DOC at a club and you want to get all of your players in and then have an idea of what everybody's doing, then you can use it as a tool to really check how your players are engaged in your club. So very flexible piece of technology, top techers, works for the individual player, works for the coach, works for the club, and that's why we designed it in the way that we did. So yeah, just to recap then, we are looking at things that we can do to engage players away from the training pitch. We have great sessions to engage players on the training pitch. Sharing those sessions and giving them access to those sessions means that they're engaged and they're learning away from the training pitch as well. So if you're doing one of our sessions, which has got a session by David Moyes, for example, and you're saying to your players, go and watch this session before we do it at this week's training, then essentially those children are learning directly from David Moyes. They're learning about the game. So that's extremely powerful. So we are trying to do things that engage them in training sessions and make sure that they're learning the right things, but we're also trying to engage them away from training sessions. So trying to give them things that they can learn about the game, whether that's technique, or whether it's about some of the mechanics of the game, stuff that they can learn away from training to provide to make sure that they're more engaged when they come in. Then in those periods of time when football or when soccer isn't played during the year, we're trying to find a way to make sure that our players keep on the learning journey. The reason why that's important is that kids play out, like I said at the start, 50% less than their parents. So we are trying to fill, we're not going to fill that entire gap. I think that's a really important point to make. We're not going to suddenly get kids to go and play an additional 10 or 15 hours a week outside. I think the world has changed in that regard and the distractions that they've got, the academic pressure that children are under nowadays is much greater. So what we're doing with teaching them the right technique with things like top techers or with ball mastery activities is that we're trying to shorten that learning process. So we're giving them something that teaches them things that are very specific that they can learn in 10, 15, 20 minute blocks that we don't then have to spend time teaching them on the training ground. We can go into those activities because they're already prepared, they know what the activity is and they've learned it away from training. Again, that drives up the engagement. And the other big challenge that we're facing is how do we keep kids active and fit. And I didn't kind of go through this in the coaching in the top techers in complete detail. But if I go to look and add tasks in here, we have lots of the different techniques of the game broken down, including fitness. So some really good fitness activities that that children can do endurance and strength and conditioning, things that they can do to help with their physical literacy. Move to improve for the younger ones. So again, physical literacy strength and conditioning body weight exercises always body weight exercises for younger kids. But we also have all of the different ranges of passing covered, whether it's short one and two touch passing, or whether it's lofty driven or curve passes over difference over distance and dribbling skills. Lots of running with the ball. And again, ball mastery activities with the right techniques. So this is about shortening that learning journey as a coach, we can control entirely what we want those children to learn in our team. But they also have the freedom to go off and do things that they want to work on themselves. The big thing for that, again, going back to the physical literacy is responsibility. We want to create children who take responsibility for improving things that perhaps they're not as good at. So they can then go and create their own learning plans and work on the skills that they think they need to get better at. If we tick all of those boxes from a physical literacy perspective, then we'll have competent players, we'll have players who take responsibility, we'll have players who are motivated, and the lifelong benefits of that are immense. And that's kind of what the underlying thing for all of this is that we are taking children on a journey through this game, but this game is about teaching them things for life. And whether that's having a good attitude towards working hard, whether that's a good attitude to winning or losing, whether it's a good ability to work within a team, all of these things are vitally important. And having those children taking responsibility and being motivated is a huge part of that. So, thanks again, everyone, and I hope you have a really, really pleasant evening, our afternoon, and great games this weekend. Thanks again and take care. Bye bye.