Day 24

Day 24

Tuesday.

Early rise today, my alarm was set for 6:45, meaning we would be leaving just before 7:30.

Our first school today was St Michael's. The sessions always go well here but sometimes the concentration lacks, the field we have is really good and has hardly any cracks which makes a change! We did our scheduled session for the week which incorporates dribbling right from the warm up and drill and then finally an added restriction in the match which translates the skills they've learnt! So we started with a warm up exercise which is called foxes and rabits which really emphasises change of direction and quick feet. Our drill is called "Dribbling Gauntlet" which again is all about dribbling. The layout is that there is students, the passers, facing each other on 4-8 cones spread a fair distance apart, opposite eachother. Then there is 2-4 "dribblers" at the top and bottom of the gauntlet. The aim of the game is for the dribblers to get to the other side of the gauntlet without their ball being hit by the passers, who are passing the ball back and forth to each other. This really encourages the skill of dribbling, quick feet and change of direction.

The match the ends with a game called mario kart, where two gates are placed on the half way line. If any team dribbles through the gate then their opposition has to freeze for 3 seconds, allowing the team who went through the gate to take advantage!! This is a really fun game and works pretty well, if the use of gates is encouraged!
A decent session at St Michaels! We won't be having them for two weeks due to exams.

Our next session was at Ellerslie school where the ability isn't the best. The session went okay but we had many disruptions, halfway through our session the head of PE teacher took out nearlly 20 boys for not wearing Ellerslie branded PE kit, which kind of through the session up in the air for a few minutes.

Our car had been making a horrible noise the whole day and after Ellerslie it sounded even worse! It sounded like two pieces of metal grating against eachother whenever I pressed the brake pedal and it even made a noise when we were just strolling along. It affected my braking quite a lot so I didn't feel confident to drive a round trip of an hour and a half with dodgy breaks, especially in the countryside! Luckily when we called the school to say that we had mechanical issues, they informed us that it was cancelled anyway.

Rafael rang up the rental car company and they came over to our house about an hour later to take our car to the garage. They replaced our car with an awesome van which looks pretty suave!

Very long day ahead tomorrow, 12 hours to be precise. Last session with St Winifred's too which is a bit of a shame! :(

All the best

Luke