Stephen Lavin played senior inter-county football for Limerick for the best part of 13 years. Having finished playing several years ago, the school principal now finds himself as the head of the Limerick GAA football development squads, following on from the foundations laid of Paul Kinnerk.
Stephen coaches UL's sigerson team and during covid, himself and his two brothers started a passion project that is now Game Sense coaching. The website is a fantastic resource for GAA coaches with huge amounts of detailed information for coaches of all age groups.
We get into the nuts and bolts of his philosophy on coaching, the overlap between teaching and coaching, lessons learned from Paul Kinnerk and plenty more.
Similar to both of the previous two seasons, I've set up this podcast with a dual purpose in mind, firstly to provide some thoughtful debate for coaches, but I've also linked up with the Lily Daly Foundation, who are a new charity raising funds for the heart ward in Crumlin children's hospital and Ronald McDonald house. For more info, listen to the podcast about the Lily Daly Foundation.
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The beauty of playing games is that, while the players love playing the games, you are also coaching them how to play the game. Players love playing games.
We have been involved in two completed PHDs. The first PhD was carried out by Paul Kinnerk in the PESS department in U.L. and measured the effect of a games-based approach on decision-making in GAA players. The results were very favourable.
We also took part in a PhD with Kevin Gavin in TUS, Athlone. It measured and compared the physical activity levels in youth gaelic football between a game-based and traditional approach to training. The results were very favourable.
We are currently taking part in a PHD study with Cian O Dea, in TUS, Athlone, that is asking, ‘does a game-based approach to training lead to increased fitness levels?
There are suggested times and numbers of players for every game on the site. These are a guide. We would suggest that experience be your guide when deciding on times, dimensions and numbers for games.
There is no limit to the number of games but it may affect the quality of your session, if you try and get through too many games in one session.
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