Audio cues for player to player communication

[TomParticipant]

Kleibans,

In your training, i.e. the S-Pattern video, you instruct the players to tell their teammates what to do, to “talk”. Can you give some more insight on how you instruct your players to talk to each other on the field, specifically when it comes to playing and receiving passes such as in that S-Pattern video? Is it like “to my left foot” or more general? Details please.

Thanks,
Tom

[John PranjicParticipant]

Tom- one thing I’ve picked up on, and preached since, is the use of visual AND verbal cues.

Show and tell!

I’ll let Gary answer your question as to what they instruct their players to actually say, though.

[GaryKeymaster]

Hi Tom, so generally speaking we want, no we NEED our players to actively communicate.
It is foundational, and a key to helping execute possession-based play.

How do we do that?
We train them. We ingrain it in them. It’s a theme in every activity.
And it’s a cause for the trainer to stop play, if the players aren’t yapping up a storm.

Perhaps the 2 main details

1. Player demands he be given the rock (a general demand). (What specifically he/she yells in order for the ball to be played to them is up to them, or if you have preferences).
2. We train them to share their vision with the player who’s about to receive the ball. So “LONG” before a player receives, he’s already received the advice of his teammate(s). For instance, in the s-pattern activity … the one making the pass should instruct (ie yell) the receiver who to play next. For example, right as I make a pass to you … I’d be yelling “play John, play John” or “switch it, switch it”.

Hope that helps.

[TomParticipant]

That does help, thanks.

I agree and believe it’s beneficial to install a few simple standards for communication w/your team otherwise there can be an torrent of confusing yells. For example, in Ireland they typically yell  “House” instead of “Man on”. So in the context of this topic, I might give my players a vocabulary to use, like ‘switch’ and to simply use the name of the player they should pass to next. Keep it to as few words as possible.

[David WilliamsParticipant]

Some commands I use.

“Shoulders” – Used instead of pass, said when ready with shoulders across pitch, ready to receive.

“Running in” – Tells your team mates to move out of the space you are about to run into, so they adjust into passing options.

“Holding space” – When not in possession of the ball, player should look to pull away from the player in possession

creating space for them to run with the ball.

“Bounce” – When in a tight area player x——->x1  X would pass to X1 who is tightly marked and would play the ball out to a player who has noted that he could receive a one touch pass out of trouble. Very useful way to keep ball.

Kids like using the language, we always encourage players to talk throughout the game.

 

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