Visual Awareness Coach - Sheryl Calder

[michaelden]

This lady has entered the record books for being the first person to win successive Rugby World Cup medals. She trains players to be come more aware of the events surrounding them so they can operate better. Everyone has raved about her input into the teams she's worked with (All Blacks, England Rugby, SARU, and more... )

Some times I watch Spurs and I think IF ONLY the player had looked up, or IF ONLY they saw the man in the space. With visual awareness training I think that those IF ONLY times would be reduced and Spurs players would be more efficient.

I feel she would be the ideal addition to our coaching staff.



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[Real_madyidd]

Sounds like hippy talk

 

[Midostouch]

That's what people said when clubs first started using sports psychologists to get teams to visualise themselves winning - now everyone does it. Ramos said that when he took over the team had no self belief and that's what he had to address first. This was most notable in our 5 1 spanking of Arse - we had to break through the psychological barrier of not believing we would ever hold on and actually beat the bar stewards.

 

[paul_1979yid]

This lady has entered the record books for being the first person to win successive Rugby World Cup medals. She trains players to be come more aware of the events surrounding them so they can operate better. Everyone has raved about her input into the teams she's worked with (All Blacks, England Rugby, SARU, and more... )

Some times I watch Spurs and I think IF ONLY the player had looked up, or IF ONLY they saw the man in the space. With visual awareness training I think that those IF ONLY times would be reduced and Spurs players would be more efficient.

I feel she would be the ideal addition to our coaching staff.



Related Articles:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugbyworldcup/article3076479.ece

http://www.scrum.com/259_48723.php

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby/article2681366.ece

Load of rubbish:rofl:

 

[Evolution]

Nah it's good shit and trains the mind to instantly snap the picture around you in a split second...God knows Huddlestone needs it...He has an immense range of passing, don't get me wrong but my god does he doodle on the ball!!!

 

[stemark44]

I totally agree this is definitely the way forward and something I hope the coach takes on board.Football in the Premiership is all about split second decisions,a player can be surrounded by 2 or more players and the quicker a player can recognise one of his own team then the more likely he will be in finding a successful pass.

 

[TopSpurMan]

what was hoddles life coach name? lets get her back - a

 

[SpurSince57]

Thinking out of the box is always good. Why not, say, a sprint coach from athletics? Why not a dance coach for the Hudd?

That is not, BTW, taking the piss. When Gross's fitness and diet guru failed to get a work permit the press and quite a few Spurs supporters thought it was absolutely hilarious. Like, we don't need this new-fangled Continental shite. Ten years on, we're all raving about the new regime Ramos has instituted.

 

[parklane_B39-R16-S25]

I saw something like this on t.v with woMan U a few months back. The old bird said that she help players see more and know what's around them, and then went on to say that Rooney had the best natural awareness she has ever seen.

 

[michaelden]

I think it's awareness that might help Dawson get around his lack of pace, help Lennon pick out the runner and generally get the team playing more fluid.

She says a lot of what she coaches is depth perception. Just imagine how that would help our boys with their passing, crossing, and free kicks!

 

[tommyt]

I don't see why not.

Forward to THFC immediately.

 

[arthurgrimsdell]

This lady has entered the record books for being the first person to win successive Rugby World Cup medals. She trains players to be come more aware of the events surrounding them so they can operate better. Everyone has raved about her input into the teams she's worked with (All Blacks, England Rugby, SARU, and more... )

Some times I watch Spurs and I think IF ONLY the player had looked up, or IF ONLY they saw the man in the space. With visual awareness training I think that those IF ONLY times would be reduced and Spurs players would be more efficient.

I feel she would be the ideal addition to our coaching staff.



Related Articles:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugbyworldcup/article3076479.ece

http://www.scrum.com/259_48723.php

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/rugby/article2681366.ece

Don't tell us: Tell the Club. I'd imagine they'd be delighted with some helpful correspondence, instead of the usual belligerence, and being told they're clowns.

They may have someone doing this already, or they may have considered and rejected the idea, but I don't doubt all helpful comments would be gratefully received.

Someone else on this thread mentioned dance training, presumably to improve balance. There was a player named Pop Robson in the seventies, who played for Newcastle and West Ham, and was noted for his good balance. He was trained in this area by his uncle, named Heppel from memory, who had been a table tennis champion in his youth and taught balance techniques.
It is not generally understood that favouring one foot over the other to kick a ball with, is a direct result of favouring the other foot to balance on.
Try it. If you're right footed, try balancing on your right leg and compare it with balancing on the left. Balancing on your left will be much easier. It follows that if you want to improve your ability to kick with your weaker shooting foot, you should practice balancing on the other leg. Strengthening that leg by balance training will make you more two footed.

 

[InOffMeLeftShin]

I saw something like this on t.v with woMan U a few months back. The old bird said that she help players see more and know what's around them, and then went on to say that Rooney had the best natural awareness she has ever seen.

I can believe that. But Rooney has a real problem now. I was hugely shocked at how ineffective he was against us. Everytime he got the ball his head was up looking out for his mate Ronaldo, it was almost like he was scared to take any responsibility and instead just gave it to Ronaldo.

As for the awareness coach, it makes absolute sense to me. You would hope there would be someone already at the club who helps the players understand better what is going on around them on the pitch, but if not then I don't see any reason not to get a specialist in.

 

[SpurSince57]

That's right, although I suggested dance training in Hudd's particular case to improve his agility. For me it's not his lack of pace that's the real problem, it's that he has the turning circle of a small oil tanker at times. But it's all part and parcel of the same thing.

It's not just Dawson's performance in the box that would be improved by awareness training. He can hit wonderful long balls, or rather they would be wonderful if he checked to see that one of our players had a hope in hell of getting on the end of most of them.

 

[Dharmabum]

People also made fun of Whinger when he started changing things at Gooners -new diets etc - but he simply did what individual athletes had been doing already.
Football as a whole - including fans - are a bit backwards when it comes to keeping in touch with the modern world in regards to new ways of improving performances.

 

[Banny]

Sounds like a good idea. as long as we dont turn into a big bunch of hippys takeing LSD at training. once a player starts becomeing more aware of his surroundings his game can improve immensely! God that is hippy talk! lol

 

[Evolution]

That's right, although I suggested dance training in Hudd's particular case to improve his agility.

Hahaha..thanks for putting that image in my head :rofl:

 

[jimbo]

...my god does he doodle on the ball!!!

That's art man, modern art. I say we let him draw what he likes.

 

[Adam456]

Probably a good idea - every little helps (as a certain supermarket says).

However, don't expect it to have an overwhelming effect. Vision is rather like technical ability - 'skill'. Once a player is into his late teens he's developed most of that and can only be sharpened with training. Considering that playing footbal is what they do for a living then they should be fairly honed already...

 

[michaelden]

Adam - if a 36 year rugby player can learn new tricks then so can everyone in our squad