Matthias Becher is a young and coming German coach with some strong views that caught our eye. We asked him to share his insights on "Game intelligence. How to develop it. How to train it."... So please join us live in this Coach Chat at Friday 2018-03-23 at 12:30h (CET)... or when you're too late for this party 😉 watch the video below with a full replay (for logged in viewers only). Matthias is involved in the coaching staff of Mannheim HC (German champions 2017) since 2009. Since 2011 he has had several coaching positions with different German national teams such as assistant coach at the recent junior world cup for the German U21 men or video analyst in Rio 2016 for the men.
Every Coach Chat session is followed by a Q&A with our coach-speaker. You can ask him/her your questions. We prefer these to be on topic but in case you have an unrelated but pertinent question for this coach feel free to ask it as well by leaving your comment below or contact us here. We will try and have all questions you ask us answered during the Coach Chat session.
Meanwhile take a look at our previous coach chat with Jamilon Mülders, head coach China, on communication here... 😉
A short clip from the Coach Chat where Jamilon talks about the "blue profile"...
A short clip from the Coach Chat where Jamilon talks about the key question from coaches to players
Jamilon Mülders is our guest in our first ever Coach Chat session talking about communication and how it could influence your team. Jamilon played himself for Germany and became world champion with them in 2002. After his playing days he has been working for the DHB, the German national federation, for some 10 years coaching several national teams. Following London 2012 he became the head coach for the German women. He won a European Championship with his team in 2013 and more recently a bronze medal in the Rio 2016 Olympics. Last year he decided upon a new challenge, taking on the Chinese national women's team as the head coach on their path to Tokyo 2020. Would you like to know what Jamilon will teach us about how communication will influence your team you need to be logged in. Join our Coach Club for a small monthly or annual subscription fee. Or, in case you can't afford this or just don't want to for whatever reason, join our Coach Community for free here. As a Coach Community member you will have free access to our Coach Catalog and live Coach Chats. Coach Club members help us keep this site alive and in return also get access to all Coach Conferences , all on demand Coach Chats and some extra bonus stuff. Click here to see what a Coach Club membership could mean for you. This Coach Chat by Jamilon Mülders is available on demand for all Coach Club and Coach Community members !
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Every Coach Chat session is followed by a Q&A with our coach-speaker. You can ask him/her your questions. We prefer these to be on topic but in case you have an unrelated but pertinent question for this coach feel free to ask it as well by leaving your comment below or contact us here. We will try and have all questions you ask us answered during the Coach Chat session.
A short clip from the Coach Chat where Jamilon talks about the "blue profile"...
A short clip from the Coach Chat where Jamilon talks about the key question from coaches to players
Two weeks ago, on Friday the 15th of December 2017 we launched the first ever online Coach Conference for field hockey coaches from all over the world. Online... so coaches wishing to attend did not have to travel or book hotels. Instead all were able to enjoy the keynote and workshops out of the comfort of their own home, or wherever they had to be that day. The hashtag that determines who we are is #sharetheknowledge... and that is exactly what happened that Friday.
We started the day with a keynote speech from the legendary Ric Charlesworth (in Perth, Australia at the time) about building winning teams. For about an hour he kept coaches from New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India, the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Argentina, the USA, etc.... entertained with his incredible anecdotes and dow to earth approach to the coaching business. Like Planet Hockey Magazine describes it: "Coaches and hockey lovers were in for a treat when they logged onto the Hockey Today Coaching Clinic for the inaugural online series of hockey seminars." And as expected the Q&A afterwards also provided us with some pearls of wisdom.
Following the keynote by Charlesworth we had 6 more workshops, each around 30 minutes in duration for our visitors and eachs also followed by a Q&A with our live attendees asking their own questions to our panel with some pretty exciting names as well:
Mark Cairns, co-founder of Coach-Logic and former rugby international from Scotland talked to us about what we could learn from rugby in video analysis.
Pirmin Blaak from the Netherlands was up next. The current keeper for the Dutch national team is also the co-founder from Goalieworks, one of the biggest academies for goalkeepers in the world. Blaak shared with us some insights in advanced training for goalies.
Laurine Delforge from Belgium is not only the FIH umpire of the year 2017, the youngest umpire at the World Cup in 2014, the first debutant at an Olympics to be awarded the final in Rio 2016. She is also a very talented striker today, multiple champion of Belgium and selected for the indoor national team of Belgium. And these are just her hobbies because her day job is being a lawyer 😉 She talked to us about the communication between umpires and coaches/players.
From the USA we were informed by Annemieke Griffin-Zijerveld about training mental toughness. She is a performance psychologist working with both individuals and teams for international hockey players, pro football (soccer) teams and the military. A most enlightening talk about a subject finally getting some recognition.
Santi Freixa was a renowned striker from Spain in the recent past and recently made his transition into coaching in the Dutch hoofdklasse and with the Dutch national women. His passion is scoring and he did not disappoint with his workshop on creating the opportunities to excel in the D.
Last but not least South-African dragflicking specialist Justin Reid Ross delivered his workshop on the basics for training the drag flick. Still playing for Amsterdam in the Dutch hoofdklasse and until recently in the Hockey India League he is one of the best in the world in this special skill.
Our Coach Club members and those who enrolled for this Coach Conference enjoy the possibility to rewatch the keynote and all workshops by clicking the button below:
If by now you're very disappointed you missed all of that? Don't be... You can still register here to join our Coach Club membership which will give you full access to all Coach Conferences, live & on demand afterwards plus you will have access to all Coach Chat sessions we will start delivering in 2018! Or you could still get your (late) ticket for the conference from 2017-12-15 to watch all of it on demand when you've got some time to catch up. It's worth it.... 😉
We hope you'll join us for 2018. We've got a lot more where that came from... But meanwhile we wish you all the best for the new year and don't forget....#sharetheknowledge !
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