/Recovering from a bad session
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Last night was not my finest moment. I didn’t know how many keepers I’d be working with until about 90 minutes before the session (it fluctuates weekly from a pool of three of them), so my planning was hampered from the off.
I think my first mistake was not planning far enough in advance. I kept telling myself that once I knew how many there would be, I’d sort my session out, but as the time grew nearer and nearer I quickly realised I was running out of time. In hindsight, I should’ve prepared earlier in the day or even the week for all eventualities, something which I will certainly do moving forwards.
As a result of this the session was poorly planned, lacked any real direction or flow and came across as a bit “thrown together” in the end. The keeper I was working with was polite enough about it and thanked me afterwards as he always does, but I can’t help but feel that it wasn’t the best use of 40 minutes of either of our time.
One thing I’ve learnt though is that it’s all about how you react to setbacks and disappointment. I’d like to think that every coach has a bad session in them, even those who do this for a living, so I’m trying not to get too hung up over it and use the experience to make a better and more effective session next week.
To top it all off, I was asked by the manager to take part in the game at the end of training (as there was only one keeper present) which was going well enough until I let an absolute howler slip under my body and into the goal – I was quick to remind everyone that there was a reason I was “retired” from playing, but it certainly didn’t help my mood…!
Onwards and upwards, I suppose!