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samwargacki · 1 month

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Title: Key Areas to Improve Your Soccer Game Effectively

Welcome to a deep dive into the essence of soccer improvement, where dedication meets strategy and passion fuels progress. Drawing from over two decades of personal experience on the soccer field, I aim to unfold the layers of mastering this beautiful game. Soccer is not just a sport; it’s a journey of continuous learning, physical challenges, and mental battles. Here’s how to elevate your game to new heights.

The Pillars of Soccer Mastery

Foundational Skills: The bedrock of soccer excellence lies in the mastery of foundational skills: dribbling, passing, ball control, and shooting. These skills are your first steps towards soccer proficiency and can be honed with nothing but a ball and determination. Practice consistently, integrate dribbling drills into your daily routine, and always aim to push your limits.

Physical Conditioning: Soccer’s physical demands are relentless, making conditioning a crucial aspect of your training. Embrace interval training to boost both your aerobic endurance and anaerobic capacity, preparing your body for the game’s inherent stop-and-go nature. Exercises like sprint intervals, explosive jump squats, and long-distance running should be staples in your regimen.

Tactical Acumen: Surprisingly, one of the best ways to enhance your tactical understanding is not by playing, but by watching. Observing soccer matches allows you to analyze player movements, team formations, and strategic decisions from a broader perspective. Ask critical questions, understand the “whys” behind tactics, and apply these insights to your game.

Mental Fortitude: The mental dimension of soccer is where the battle is often won or lost. Recognize the game for what it is—a source of joy and entertainment. Don’t allow the heat of competition to cloud your judgment or erode your love for the game. Instead, use psychological tactics to your advantage, staying composed and focused under pressure.

Beyond Practice: Living Soccer

A crucial yet often overlooked aspect of improving at soccer is the commitment to integrating soccer-related activities into your daily life outside of formal practice sessions. Whether it’s additional drills at home, pickup games, or simply engaging with the sport through watching and analysis, these moments are invaluable. They deepen your connection to soccer, turning routine practice into a passion lived daily.

Every Touch Counts: Remember, the player who spends more time with the ball is likely getting better faster. Make soccer a part of your everyday life. Dedicate yourself to improving your skills even when you’re not on the field. This relentless pursuit of excellence is what separates the good from the great.

Conclusion

Elevating your soccer game is a multifaceted journey that extends well beyond the pitch. It encompasses mastering the basics, conditioning your body, sharpening your tactical mind, and nurturing a resilient spirit. But perhaps most importantly, it involves embracing soccer not just as a sport but as a way of life. By committing to continuous improvement, both in structured practice and in your free time, you pave the way to not just playing soccer, but truly living it.

Embrace this journey with an open heart, a willing mind, and an unwavering dedication. Soccer, in return, offers not just the thrill of competition, but a path to personal growth, lifelong friendships, and unforgettable moments. Let’s lace up those boots, hit the field, and elevate our game together.

#soccer coaching #athletics #soccer #coach #athletedevelopment #soccer training #football #mental toughness #sports psychology #coaching

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promptedu · 6 months

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Teaching Excel with AI

Building lesson plans, sample data, and examples efficiently using tools like ChatGPT and Excel's copilot can significantly streamline the teaching and learning process. Here are five actionable steps to help you achieve this:

1. Define Learning Objectives and Topics

Actionable Step: Start by clearly defining the learning objectives and topics you want to cover in your lesson plan. Identify key concepts, skills, or tasks that students need to understand or practice.

Why it matters: A well-defined outline helps you focus on specific goals, making it easier to generate relevant examples and data.

2. Generate Sample Data with ChatGPT

Actionable Step: Utilize ChatGPT to generate realistic and diverse sample data for your lesson. Provide clear instructions to ChatGPT, specifying the type of data you need and any specific parameters.

Why it matters: ChatGPT can rapidly create sample data, saving you time and ensuring the data aligns with the learning objectives.

3. Use Excel's Copilot for Formulas and Functions

Actionable Step: Leverage Excel's copilot feature to speed up the creation of formulas and functions. Start typing a formula, and Excel's copilot will suggest options, providing real-time assistance as you build your spreadsheet.

Why it matters: Excel's copilot enhances productivity by offering suggestions and completing complex formulas, making it easier to demonstrate and teach Excel functionalities.

4. Incorporate Real-Life Examples

Actionable Step: Integrate real-life examples into your lesson plan using ChatGPT. Ask ChatGPT for relevant scenarios or applications related to the topic to make the learning experience more practical and engaging.

Why it matters: Real-life examples help students see the practical applications of the concepts they are learning, enhancing understanding and retention.

5. Create Interactive Exercises

Actionable Step: Develop interactive exercises and challenges for students to apply the concepts they've learned. Use ChatGPT to generate problem statements, questions, or scenarios that encourage hands-on practice.

Why it matters: Interactive exercises promote active learning, allowing students to reinforce their understanding through practical application.

Bonus Tip: Gather Student Feedback

Actionable Step: Use ChatGPT to create surveys or prompts to gather feedback from students about the effectiveness of the lesson plan, examples, and exercises.

Why it matters: Student feedback provides valuable insights into the clarity and impact of your teaching materials, helping you refine and improve future lessons.

By combining the creative capabilities of ChatGPT with the efficiency of Excel's copilot, you can quickly build comprehensive lesson plans, generate realistic sample data, and create engaging examples and exercises for effective teaching and learning.

#coaching #soccer coaching #youth sports #chatgpt #education #teachers #soccer training #teaching #edtech #soccer

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eliteinternet023 · 1 year

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woso11 · 6 months

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One more year

#ali krieger #nwsl #gotham fc #ya I think this is THE best way to go out as a champion #she will be missed for sure #I really hope she stays involve in soccer maybe coach krieger in the future

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mensuited · 9 months

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radio-show · 13 days

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Thinking about how Grant (and the other kids yeah but specifically Grant) had only known Henry (yeah the other dads too but I'm thinking about Henry) for less than a day before getting dropped into the forgotten realms and then at least a month later when he sees him again he has to see totally different sides of him and his dad. How jarring must that be? You meet a guy and his insane sons and your first impression of him is that he's some tree hugger granola dad who's a total pushover and then the next time you see him it's in a death game where he volunteers to kill a man by shotgun blast to the face and then leaves the dead body of the guy outside to send a message to the other players. Imagine meeting this guy whose whole gig is being vegan and a free range granola parent and the next time you see him he's breaking into another explosive burst of anger and yelling at the arena that he will fight and/or kill anyone who comes to hurt you or his friends. Imagine knowing your dad all your life and seeing him one day and then having to know that your dad has killed someone. And then you kill a chimera and you're changed forever. And then you grow up and marry a man named Marco.

#the whole Wilson family is immune to just living in peace #they're all going through life changing trauma #and then moving on and becoming a librarian or something #daryll went through extreme poverty as a child and then just became a stay at home dad #his parents held it together well but that doesnt mean he didnt go through it #grant went through a lot of life changing trauma as a child and became a librarian #he was a sniper too but he was a librarian #lincoln went through a whole like 50 years of life got married had kids and then just had to go on with his life #then he became a soccer coach #the jury's still out on Jerry #dndads #dungeons and daddies #daryll wilson #grant wilson #lincoln li wilson #henry oak

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tennessoui · 9 months

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we're firmly stepping into clueless kit territory but modern au where obi-wan goes out to a bar to watch a basketball game with his friends from work and while he's waiting for a 3rd/4th round of drinks, he spies a very pretty and handsome guy leaning up against the counter looking bored af

and no one that pretty should look that bored, especially in a crowded and loud sports bar, so he makes his way over to the man.

"not your thing?" he asks, gesturing to the television, and the guy looks over, takes his measure, gets a hungry glint in his eyes, and says, "no, i'm not really into it, i just came with a friend" and obi-wan takes this to mean the very attractive man looking up at him beneath his eyelashes and touching his arm is not into any sport and he's quick to be like oh yeah no me neither i don't have the head for it i don't know anything about sports fuck sports 100% i hate sports (never mind that obi-wan coaches a little league, baby's-first-soccer-team part-time and loves it) and the attractive man laughs and rubs the back of his head and agrees and gives him his name and lets him buy him a drink

and they spend the night together and it's great and then a week or so later the assistant coach and league admins are all abuzz because famous (and single and hot) hockey player ani skywalker enrolled his twins in their soccer team program and obi-wan doesn't think anything of it until his one night stand rocks up to drop off his twins and they're both like :0 before going to argue in the locker room

("you said you hated sports, mr. hockey legend!!"

"i awkwardly laughed when the guy whose dick i wanted to suck said he hated my livelihood!! and you're one to talk, mr. coach of my twins' soccer team!!")

#kit's silly lil aus #obikin #as kit knows nothing about sports this is firmly outside her territory #i just thought the mistaken identity was cute #need an element of sorta hate but lust fuelled sex #they just can't let it go because that's not in their personalities #obi-wan coaxes the twins into loving soccer more than hockey and anakin has to fuck him over his coach's desk #anakin makes obi-wan a copy of his team's jersey and obi-wan makes him wear it and nohting else as he fucks him #etc etc #petty but in lust men

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firstkanaphans · 4 months

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this is so business or pleasure coded

#sorry i had to #it’s also giving history teacher fucking the soccer coach vibes #can you tell i’m desperate for fk content??#thank you for your service japan #first kanaphan #khaotung thanawat #business or pleasure fic

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todayontumblr · 11 months

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Friday, June 16.

The Toad Who Never Made The Team

...and other important animal images.

Spare a thought for this poor little guy on this most Friday of Fridays, June 16ths. Because while most of us are winding down from school, university, or the workplace, and gearing up for a sunny weekend in June, others are not enjoying such a good time. Indeed, for some, they are heading into Saturday and Sunday left with no choice but two days to face one of life's hard truths, to ponder it—to look it square in its cold, uncompromising eyes. Take, for example, the tale of Toad who never made the team. This here poor fellow is one of a handful of stories from the rich tapestry of life to be explored in other @important-animal-images.

We've all been there: you set your mind to something with the utmost strongest of determinations. This goal is fixed to your thoughts as if it were written on little bits of paper, and stapled to your eyelids. From the moment you wake, you are out of bed, like a Rocky montage or a LinkedIn hustler bro's post, and swigging eggnog, jogging, boxing the air, putting one step in front of the other in pursuit of that dream. That was the case for Toad, who wanted, more than anything, just to make the team.

There were obstacles, sure, but he didn't let them stand in his way. For Toad, being an amphibian meant he was not the obvious pick for a (human) men's 11-a-side soccer team. The fact he hibernates each winter was also not ideal for a side that would be playing on pitches up and down the nation during the cold, dark winter months. The fact he was smaller than the balls that the players would be kicking for 90 minutes was also not in his favor. As the main prey of snakes, including Toad on a soccer team would increase the risk of serpent attacks mid-match. And mid-match serpent attacks are the last thing coach needs when in pursuit of The Championship.

Unlike others in their family, toads are only capable of a slight hop, and not jump, which leaves them at a serious disadvantage when it comes to heading the ball, whether in attack or defense. They also have lovably short legs, which, while endearing, is not a good fit for a soccer player. The fact Toad eats his own skin is, while not unhelpful for a budding athlete, per se, really kind of gross—and unlikely to win friends in the dressing room and fans in the stadium. But for Toad, it mattered not. He was going to kick balls, and score goals, or die trying, dammit.

And try he did. He hopped with everything he had and kicked as hard as his comical legs would allow. But it, sadly, mattered not. When coach blew the whistle and gathered his squad around the team sheet for tomorrow's big match, eleven names were listed. Toad's was not among them. He was crushed, his dreams shattered in an instant, and as he went to ribbit a most forlorn of ribbits, he stopped, paused, and fell silent. Because, he remembered, he is a toad. And toads do not ribbit.

When you try your best and you don't succeed..., he hums to himself softly, consoling his broken spirit with the soothing lyrics of Fix You, by Coldplay. We can only hope he gets back to the training ground, gives it all he's got, and that we may see a change in his fortunes next year. Then, perhaps, we will see a happier sequel to this in later @important-animal-images.

Better luck next year champ x

*P.S. It's not all so gloomy for our animal comrades, however. There's a rumour going around that this cat is having two kittens, and will need a hand or two in deciding on some baby names.

#today on tumblr #toad #soccer #team #coach #championship #practise #when you try your best #and you don't succeed #just try again sport #little toad #watching on #small round yet doesn't make a sound #because of the disappointment #poor toad

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samwargacki · 1 month

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How to Elevate Your Game at Any Skill Level: Mastering the Fundamentals

When we talk about the basics, we're referring to more than just kicking a ball or making a pass. It's about controlling the ball with precision, passing with accuracy, defending with tenacity, and understanding the strategic nuances that underpin successful gameplay.

Let's break it down further:

1. Controlling the Ball: Mastering ball control involves not only trapping the ball with your feet but also using various parts of your body to maintain possession. It's about having a soft touch to cushion the ball and a quick reaction to adjust your body position.

2. Passing with Precision: Passing isn't just about getting the ball from point A to point B—it's about doing so with intention and accuracy. Understanding the weight and trajectory of your passes, as well as anticipating the movements of your teammates, is crucial for effective playmaking.

3. Defending with Tenacity: Defense is often overlooked in discussions about the basics, but it's just as important as offense. Defending with tenacity means staying close to your mark, anticipating their movements, and using positioning and timing to disrupt their play.

4. Understanding Strategic Nuances: Soccer is a game of strategy, and understanding the tactical aspects of play can give you a significant advantage on the field. This includes recognizing patterns in your opponent's movements, anticipating passing lanes, and knowing when to press or drop back defensively.

Think of the basics as the building blocks upon which all soccer prowess is built. Without a solid grasp of these fundamentals, players are like ships adrift at sea, lacking direction and purpose on the field.

But mastering the basics isn't just about skill—it's about mindset too. It's about approaching each play with confidence and composure, making split-second decisions under pressure, and always keeping your eye on the ultimate goal.

As someone who's been immersed in the world of soccer for years, I've seen firsthand the transformative power of mastering the basics. It's not just about improving individual performance—it's about elevating the entire team's gameplay to new heights.

So, whether you're a seasoned veteran or a newcomer to the sport, never underestimate the importance of the basics. They are the bedrock upon which soccer greatness is built, and by focusing on mastering these foundational skills, you can unlock your full potential on the field.

Stay tuned for more insights and tips from my perspective as we continue to explore the fascinating world of soccer and psychology together!

#soccer coaching #soccer #coach #athletics #athletedevelopment #soccer training #football #basics

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promptedu · 6 months

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AI Motion Analysis: Enhancing Soccer Performance

In the fast-paced world of soccer, fine-tuning player performance is the key to success. Coaches have long relied on their keen eyes and intuition to assess player movements, but now, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing motion analysis. In this blog post, we'll explore how AI can enhance soccer performance through motion analysis and provide actionable steps for soccer coaches to harness this innovative technology.

The AI Advantage in Motion Analysis

AI is changing the game of motion analysis for coaches with the following advantages:

Precision: AI can analyze player movements with unprecedented accuracy, identifying nuances that might be missed by the human eye.

Data Insights: AI offers data-driven insights into player performance, helping coaches make targeted improvements.

Efficiency: AI processes and presents motion analysis data quickly and efficiently, saving coaches time.

Actionable Steps for Coaches:

Here are practical steps for coaches to embrace AI motion analysis:

1. AI Integration:

Explore AI solutions designed for motion analysis. Choose a platform that aligns with your coaching objectives.

2. Data Collection:

Start by collecting motion data, such as player movements, speed, agility, and coordination during training and matches.

3. AI Motion Analysis Platform:

Utilize AI motion analysis platforms that can process and present motion data in a user-friendly manner.

4. Data Gathering:

Use AI to gather and organize motion data efficiently. This includes data from wearable devices, video footage, and performance metrics.

5. Performance Assessment:

Employ AI to assess player performance based on motion data. Identify strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

6. Custom Analysis:

Create custom motion analysis reports and visualizations using AI tools, focusing on specific aspects of player performance.

7. Real-Time Monitoring:

Continuously update your motion analysis data in real-time to stay informed about player progress and development.

8. Feedback and Communication:

Use AI-generated motion analysis insights to provide players with targeted feedback on their performance and techniques.

9. Skill-Specific Drills:

Develop skill-specific training drills based on the insights from motion analysis. Tailor exercises to enhance player strengths and address weaknesses.

10. Tactical Adaptation:

Adjust your tactical strategies and coaching methods based on the real-time insights from motion analysis.

AI motion analysis is a game-changer for soccer coaches. By following these actionable steps, coaches can leverage AI to gain a deeper understanding of player performance, fine-tune training plans, and make data-driven decisions. Get ready to enhance soccer performance and lead your team to victory with the power of AI-driven motion analysis.

#youth sports #soccer training #coaching #soccer coaching #soccer

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blackrevell · 5 months

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Decided to grab a closer look at Alex turning Kurt into a knife block. And it is quite correct that she offed him with his own boy toy knife. Well, at least he got his final hug from Alex; bear hugs are still hugs. Kurt should've called Paco for some melee practice prior, my man, idk. The lounge is empty, by the way; no other NPC models are there.

#and i have to yell at the screen a bit like i'm some old high school soccer coach bc #kurt dear WHERE YOUR SANDEVISTAN AT???#PAWS UP??? UR RIGHT-HANDED WHERE UR RIGHT BLOCK AT???#WHAT ARE THESE ARMS FOR??? im calling ur mom #cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #kurt hansen #cp2077 #alex xenakis #alena xenakis #phantom liberty spoilers #also yeah included two recordings bc i couldn't decide which one is clearer #rev post

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goldenwaves · 5 months

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