Inside the Episode: Aaron Fearne
We talked about a lot more than Tagging Up with Coach Fearne in this week’s latest Slappin’ Glass Podcast. As mentioned above, Coach Fearne is highly regarded as a full 360 thinker and teacher of the game, and we were happy to explore many of those areas during our conversation including:
- Building Player-Led Cultures
- Techniques and Practices used in Australia and New Zealand to build dynamic cultures all year long
- How they form “Leadership Groups” and who’s on them
- How they define team characteristics and goals
- Their Post-Game Analysis exercises
- Tagging Up: See Above!
- “Start, Sub, or Sit?!”
- Rugby, Cricket, or Australian Rules Football
- Attacking Ice Coverages: Flip the Screen, Release and Throw back to DHO, Attack Baseline and Hit Roller
- Special Play Packages: SLOB, BLOB, Full Court Press Breaks
- Playing through the Post: Top of the Key, Elbow, or Block
- Handling Stress and Adversity as a Coach