Smart Floorball Players from flrball.com

This is another re-post from our friends at flrball.com that we run here with permission and pride.
Full source is to be found here http://flrball.com/drills/?p=683
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Posted on March 1, 2012

Smart and well trained floorball players are a floorball coaches best assets. Well-conditioned smart floorball players will beat less intelligent, yet bigger and stronger players almost every time! If a floorball coach trains the minds of his floorball players while he is drilling them, he will be rewarded in the long run.
The best time to engage your floorball players’ minds is when you are drilling their bodies. This goes like a hand in a glove with the idea of keeping your drills fun and challenging (a post couple of days ago)!
Multidimensional floorball practicing and drills

Work on several things at once in your floorball drills (multidimensional practicing), but get the basics in place before adding more dimensions to the floorball drills.
While the assistant coaches are observing technique performance, a smart head coach will be drilling his floorball players minds, teaching them game situations, preparing them to think for themselves when the time comes. Never waste an opportunity to succeed, and make a point of never wasting time.
Why this floorball drill?

Know why you are running the drill! You can use the leadership model on this page and apply it on your drills and practices (why, goal, how, result and feedback). Don’t just find some floorball drill in an old floorball coaching manual and decide that you can waste twenty minutes on it at the next practice. Locate floorball drills that will improve what your players have been doing poorly or strengthen even more what you are strong in. If your players are making poor tactical decisions during the floorball games, find floorball drills that will teach them to think about that specific game situation. There is no sense in running them through another floorball drill that teaches them something that they already know by heart.

The floorball drills found on this page are created to develop your players’ skills in game like practices and drills.

So, keep your floorball drills fun and challenging, keep your players focused and challenge them to think ahead. Do this, and you will be a successful, floorball coach!

Facebook - Floorballcentral

Hey, They just gave us a new design over at our Facebook page. With Timeline and tonnes of old stuff that jumps up much more obvious as before. The easiest way to check this new thing out is to follow this link
https://www.facebook.com/FloorballCentral

Or You may get a snapshot of the posts over on the right side of the blog - and you may also click on the headline inside of the box/window and you will be there... have fun.

Tech - wazz up?

In one of our first post on this blog... hmm time flies...we discussed how the Floorball nets would evolve into self-reporting cages that electronically or by auditory means or light automatically would report a score. We also talked about sticks with sensors that would carry back information to their users. I think this post mentioned both Gamebullet as well as Speed hero.. So far we have not seen too much more of this in real life but I am certain that something is boiling out there. We now share another link to the, now a few years old concept of gamebullet just to tease your mind...
http://www.tuli.info/eng/gamebullet.htm

Floorballcentral is still very convinced that this, - sticks, shoes and more - connected through sensors to cell phone apps and maybe social networks is something that will change sport for good. Not just Floorball.

Just take a hike here on what Adidas is up to for soccer players
http://youtu.be/9jw2i4b8znc

Or this, yet again Nike Plus with a connected armband (Yes Ibrahimovic, the world class soccer player that also say that he played Floorball growing up is featured in this one)
http://youtu.be/upuoJ7lTsTs

Do we all need this? Maybe not in areas where we still cry wolf for development of the infrastructure for Floorball. But in the sandbox? Yes indeed!

The question is not IF or When - the question is rather WHO is to be first out with a big broad solution of either a connected Stick, a Shoe, a Net or perhaps a wristband for Floorball?

May we also guess that first out in this will not be some of the producers that seriously focus their development resources on other "heavy" matters, beside of equipment connectivity.

MB

This is real now!

Attitude and yes, this is how it looks like - did you really have a clue about this?
Be honest.