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1st attempt and 1st semi failure. I think I took the drill to lightly in terms of proper verbal cues/ examples, as it looks like such a simple drill. Balls all over the place, kids failing to collect properly and the timing just didn’t seem game like. When I added the movement to angles it was a cluster (Even though I have run an angle drill that is similar). I went back and watched the video again and some notes I took away for Mondays practice. I need to slow down and explain the visual cues, When adding angles of support the video shows the coach stopping to show the kids why small movements to angles of support are so effective and energy efficient. I didnt do that and I got what was expected.
As an educator it reminds me that no matter what we teach we need to see master teachers presenting a lesson and not just the drill or framework. There is way more to teaching that the material to present. How its is presented is what separates the strong from the rest of the pack.
Love having this type of video reference to go back to.
I completely agree Eric. I think most of the videos are this way. Any coach can set up 4v1 rondos, but the way it’s broken down in the videos is amazing. Like they say, the little details are everything!!
This is great feedback so thanks for posting. I too agree that the value of joining 3four3 so far has been the ability to watch a high quality coach work and these forums, which is quite different than what I thought I would initially get out of it (i.e. amazing exercises and secret drills). It all seems to come back to the details.
How long did you spend on the exercise? What did the rest of your session look like?
Our 1st 30 minutes is our warm up phase-
10 minutes of dynamic warm up agility training w and w/o the ball
5 min of rondos 4 v 0 with emphasis on movement and speed of play
5 min 0f rondos 4 v 1 ghost
10 minutes of S drill- NOTE- alternating between S drill and a slightly modified double rondo- we’ve elected to do a 4 v 4 double round with our 8 aside teamsNOTE- as we enter state cup we do play players in set positions- were playing a 4-2-2 with the U10s
20 minutes- Defenders – back 5 ball movement- keeper, back 3 and holding mid-
offensive players- slightly modified lose your man drill- We combined it with our combinations that we were working on so player 1 was losing his man to check to the ball and the other was losing his man for a pass behind the defense15 minutes- whole team movement- combinations- I need to do this better.
25 minutes- team scrimmage- offensive vs defensive players
team relay races with the ball for added conditioningPersonally I would not do the S drill, I know I would find it boring to do, other ways to accomplish the desired result.
We started to to the S drill at the end of our season. Alot of our boys had difficulty with the details, I wish we had started using it earlier.
The boys should be thinking of each cone as a defender, especially the middle cone player who we encourage to check back almost to the preceding line middle cone. The end players do a “lose your man” move checking away before receiving.
Boys (our at least) will tend to cheat or be lazy and run to the checked back position instead of to the cone (defender). During drills I sometimes stand at a cone and act as a defender and help them with the details: body position, visual cues, etc.
I know the emphasis here is on receiving back-foot/across body, but we had some variations for man-on situations where the receiver takes it front-foot with outside of foot:
Variations:
- Middle player receives Front Foot (with “man on” communicated), plays back to the original passer who plays long to the end player
- Middle player receives Front Foot (with “man on” communicated), plays 1-2 with original passer, with a spin/curl run away from defender, then passes to end
Eric,
My first thought is that too many activities are trying to be squeezed into your warmup phase. I would think it would be easy to spend 20 minutes on the 4v0/4v1 rondos OR 20 minutes on the S-drill with the idea being to hammer home those key coaching points (back foot, small 2-3 yard movements to create angles, etc.) and a focus on quality. Given that it’ll take many repetitions for the kids to turn these concepts into muscle memory, I would think it’s worth focusing on an exercise instead of bouncing between a bunch of different ones.
Depending on how focused the kids are, the other element I might try to introduce is competition. Maybe something along the lines of a couple of teams competing against each other to count the number of “perfect passes” (i.e. correct timing, correct movement, etc) in a minute. Competition is usually my go-to move in order to increase intensity.
With Rondo v zero and Ghost there is a competition element as teams or individuals are competing for either a number of touches or to not be in the middle
Rondo’s are now part of my teams EDDs (Every Day Drills) along with dynamic warm ups and agility drills/Coerver activities.
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