CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT IN COACHING

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• Attending this conference is an active action of Continuous Improvement • Interaction at events like this expands your thinking and generates new ideas • This will lead to improvements in your approach to challenges

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• Is an ongoing effort to improve products, services or processes. These efforts can seek “incremental” improvement over time or “breakthrough” improvement all at once • Simple approach to making things better • A process to deal with the things you don’t get right in the original plan

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• Engineering Manager at Liburdi Turbine Services (LTS) • LTS – repairs gas turbine components using processes including welding, machining and coating

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• Plan Do Check Act

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• Plan Do Check Act

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 7 Real Life Example

• 2014 • May 9th Game Versus Empire • The RUSH won 28-25 • Post game break down • Seared into my mind was the picture of the Empire handlers launching discs at will

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• Player 1 • Left handed handler • Interesting throwing style • Holds the disc out wide and then launches it from there • And Launch he did • Highlighted Limitation

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• Plan Do Check Act

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 10 Plan - Problem

• Toronto RUSH players were not applying sufficient pressure to open side throws

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 11 Plan - Data

• Statistics – Ultianalytics

Turn Passing Name Assists Completions +/- Overs Percentage

Player 1 5 27 2 93 5

Player 2 5 38 3 93 3

• Empire Goals scored = 25

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November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 21 Plan – Identify Root Causes

• We do lots of drills where marking is a key component but we haven’t taught all of the specifics of marking • Rookies don’t necessarily know • Veterans may have forgotten all the drills we did the last fall where we highlighted influencing open throws or at least are not demonstrating good technique

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• RUSH and GOAT use a lot of around backhands so we are programmed to set up to stop these throws in practice

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• In the AUDL teams are confined to certain areas of the field (typically one sideline, in a 20 yard area) • Markers cannot rely on feedback from the sidelines (right, left, close, no huck) • Assistance that they have grown to rely on is not necessarily available

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 24 Plan – Brainstorm Solutions

• Review literature to see what is available to teach better marking • Looked at previous ultimate conferences for resources • Remembered last years UCC in Toronto and the presentation by Mario O’Brien from Rise UP • Checked through their resources and found – Marking – The Triangle Progression

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• Smart experienced players but also teachers

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Used with permission from www.riseupultimate.com

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November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 28 Plan – Develop Solution Plan

• Use techniques and terminology from RISE UP to teach specific approach to marking • Stop the Shown Throw • Triangle marking Progression

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FORCE

Stopped by the OPEN Side Marker

TYPICAL MARKING

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FORCE Open side But also no Influence on the throw

Stopped by the Marker

MARKING SEEN IN VIDEO

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Stop the Shown Throw FORCE OPEN SIDE But we can Influence the influence Open Huck Stopped by the Force Pivoting Marker

MARKING WE WANT TO INSTILL

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Step across to stop the FORCE OPEN SIDE pivot

Stopped by the Marker

MARKING WE WANT TO INSTILL

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Step back to give FORCE angle to stop the break

Stopped by the Marker

MARKING WE WANT TO INSTILL

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Regain position to FORCE OPEN SIDE stop the But we can Shown Throw influence Stopped by the Marker

MARKING WE WANT TO INSTILL

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• Introduce Triangle Marking • Improve Marking versus Inside Breaks • Stop Show Throw • Influence hucks • Create need to pivot to open up space • Eliminate stand, survey and fire

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• Improve Marking Movement • Add drills that facilitate this movement • Show entire team movement patterns • Bring in Strength and Conditioning Coach – Mike Haddock

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November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 38 Plan – Develop Solution Plan

• Improve Marking Movement • Short pop

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• Improve Marking Movement • Shuffle

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 40 Do – Implement Plan

• Run drills from RISE UP • No Pivot – Stop the Shown Throw • One Pivot – Stop the Pivot • Full Triangle • Stop the Shown Throw • Stop the Pivot • Step Back to Create Angle • Regain Position

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• Add Full Triangle marking to drills we already had in our repertoire • Add Full Triangle marking to our warm up

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• Add Marking movement to post practice work • Short Pop • Shuffle

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• Verify outcome is good in drills • Verify outcome is good in Scrimmage • Time to demonstrate in a game

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 44 Check - Data

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November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 49 CHECK - Data

• Statistics – After

Turn Passing Name Assists Completions +/- Overs Percentage

Player 1 0 22 5 81 -3

Player 2 3 33 4 89 2

• Empire Goals scored = 16

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 50 CHECK - Data

• Statistics – Improvement

Turn Passing Name Assists Completions +/- Overs Percentage

Player 1 -5 -5 +3 -12 -8

Player 2 -2 -5 +1 -4 -1

• Empire Goals scored = -9

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 51 Act - Standardize

• Add drill and terminology to practices • Continue to look for and encourage strong marking during subsequent games

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 52 Act – Standardize – a little later

• Realized that we didn’t run this drill enough down the fall stretch • We will run this drill set and refresh this concept before the season even starts so that we don’t regress

November 15, 2015 Ultimate Canada Conference 2015 - Halifax 53 Summary

• Even experienced teams have challenges - even with fundamentals • Continuous Improvement using PDCA tools can eliminate problems leading to better results • Absorb everything you can • You don’t have to know everything just be confident enough to ask for help

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Questions?

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