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I used to be sceptical of skill tests.
Then I was required to build one(in an MSc.). And it changed how I see player development.
Here’s what a bilateral shooting test for Gaelic Football taught me 🧵
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Kevin Mulcahy
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Kevin Mulcahy
@movementcoachkm
S&C, Gaelic Football Coach & Video analyst | Skill Acquisition Specialist | Design the Game Project | BSc. | Challenged by Movement Behaviour |
- 73000 people voted for someone who was good of at riding a horse But has no political experience whatsoever And we laugh at the Brits and Yanks🙄Luke 'Ming' Flanagan tops the poll in Midlands-North-West for the European election. Just 20 first preference votes between FF's Barry Cowen and FG's Nina Carberry in second and third places. No one elected on the first count.
- Just came across this video I took at the end of last summer with my Kilcoo U8 boys. Is there a better skill to be viewed than a player throwing everything into a block? #bravelads #conorgormley @GAAmeCoaching @GAA__JOE @TomasORuanaidh
00:00 - Arranging amateur club football matches for this Sunday morning on the longest long weekend in living memory, after 2 years of various lockdowns is absolutely peak GAA administrative selfishness.
- Probably the greatest tweet ever
- Dowling 🤣 He slapped him on the chest, but head high challenges are “part of the game” SD is an embarrassment'Someone running from the dugout to hit a player a dig is absolutely disgusting as far as I'm concerned' - The panel assess the flashpoints in Semple Stadium #SundayGame #rtegaa
00:00 - I really can’t understand how people cannot appreciate this A thing of beauty
- Fuck me One of the great All Irelands and those clowns on RTE are on about the season and changing the rules for a replay. What is wrong with these people? Analyse the fucking game. We pay ye to do it
- 30 notes that I believe help coaching (particularly sub elite) and build teams from my experience as I head towards 30 years of it. Based on observations & experience of what not to do as well as what works well. And some learning and a total commitment to making mistakes
- Again. Academies/development squads are bad, end of. They narrow the type of player who can emerge. Picking players, even at club level for an “A team” before they have gone through puberty is a really poor practice. That’s never changing.
- At least 3 Armagh players and maybe a management member getting 12 months there, minimum. Stupid carry onHuge fight at the end of the Ulster final. Ugly way for a great game to finish.
00:00 - I’m an S&C Coach. And I have absolutely no idea how Peter O Mahoney is actually gone far beyond his previous expected ceiling of athleticism, well into 30’s. He is a phenom. I wonder is it psychological. Enjoying the environment so much
- The GAA have gone after people sharing coaching content @noplanb is gone, and they seem to have contacted others to not post. And have been on a campaign to stop people using the term “GAA” Bananas stuff. They may have legal right to do that, it’s grey enough with money they
- I don’t get the bizarre issue with players playing one week after another. The games are easily recoverable from. It’s the coaches who load the shit out of training in between are the problem.
