GAA/Camogie Coaching

ninty99

Coaching an under 14 Camogie team that is strong but needs to improve in a few areas such as catching the ball in the air, their jab lifting and been first to the ball.
The girls seem to have a habit of getting the ball on to the hurley and trying to controling the ball on the hurley ie slowing down and taking everything out the ball instead of catching the ball straight. Does anyone have any tips to get them out of this habit?
Also the girls seem to be very slow at jab lifting(Jab lifting only in the club) the ball. It seems that they take for every to pick up the ball? Does anyone have a good fast drill to improve this?
Finally the girls seem to let their markers get first to the ball any tips/drills to help the girls improve in this area?
Please keep in mind they are under 14 girls dont want to kill them either

eigrod

Hopefully you'll have access to a ball wall. Go to Youtube and type in "paudie butler ball wall" and you'll get lots of ball wall exercises that should help with first touch and getting the ball into the hand.

For the other ones, have a look at "games based hurling training" in Google and you should pick up a few. At the end of the day, the more games they play, the more improvement they should make, even if they are just games amongst themselves at training.

Tell the girls to bring their hurleys with them during the school holidays as much as possible, to get out and hit the ball of their front or back wall. Training once or twice a week is fine, but the more they have a hurley and ball in their hand, the better. And here's some evidence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNXGg-Jt2CU

nice_guy80

ninty99 wrote: »

Coaching an under 14 Camogie team that is strong but needs to improve in a few areas such as catching the ball in the air, their jab lifting and been first to the ball.
The girls seem to have a habit of getting the ball on to the hurley and trying to controling the ball on the hurley ie slowing down and taking everything out the ball instead of catching the ball straight. Does anyone have any tips to get them out of this habit?
Also the girls seem to be very slow at jab lifting(Jab lifting only in the club) the ball. It seems that they take for every to pick up the ball? Does anyone have a good fast drill to improve this?
Finally the girls seem to let their markers get first to the ball any tips/drills to help the girls improve in this area?
Please keep in mind they are under 14 girls dont want to kill them either

pm me your email address and I'll send on stuff.

some good stuff here:
http://www.dublingaagamesdevelopment.ie/training-drills/hurling

and here

http://www.edenderrygaa.com/coaching/hurling-drills

see also...

http://www.turin.westmeath.gaa.ie/coaching

Lone Gunman

Nothing beats small sided conditional games ie only one touch touch etc. Drills have their place, but if you train players to stand at a cone then you cant really expect them to have the multi-directional sprint skills needed. Small sided conditional games on a small marked out pitch will also mean that players should not have the space to run with the ball on the stick.

rebel girl 15

Small sided games during training help hugely

Start training with a couple of small sided games, then go into a skills section, and back to the game - encourage the girls to practise at home, jab lifting, see how many times they can do it in a minute. Then at a training session, get them to do it and have a reward for the most. During the game, this can be rewarded by an extra point for every first attempt jab lift they get.

For some girls, it can be a fear of getting hurt when going for the ball, that they are happier to leave their marker get it and then try and tackle them. Work on the girls being in pairs, and going to try and get a ball. Doesn't necessarily have to be with their hurley at first, could be a sliotar on the ground that first person who gets to it wins, then build it up from there.

The catching thing again is a fear of hurting their hand. Show them how to catch the ball correctly, cushioning it into the palm of the hand, making the point that if their hand is solid, then the ball can bounce out and it hurts, whereas cushioning the ball, bringing their hand back won't be as sore. Use tennis balls for a bit, to check their technique, build it up to throwing a sliotar to a partner and catching it, scoop pass off the hurley and catching it, then striking it from the hurley and catching it

aquanicky

Hey

Starting off the season with the wall ball makes some difference to any team, small sided games, use this website for new skills and drills learning.gaa.ie/coach click on activity planner click hurling then the age group you want to coach. Hope this helps Nic ;-)

maireadg84

Hi yes I agree the wall ball is a brilliant work for speed for the girls plenty of ideas on you tube and ulster gaa websites to follow. The activity planner is brilliant too u12 camogie coach