Frontliners Training: Business As Usual

This week is the second week Frontliners is having boys and girls training together as preparation of the up coming Penang Open Challenge.

The attendance was slightly reduced due to some of the players attending school co-curriculum activities while both Jason and Sarah had to attend leaders meeting.

Training started of in regular fashion with few rounds of jogging and warm-up drills such as ‘Snakes’ and ‘2 on 1’. New coach Kuan Yang was a bit picking on the ‘2 on 1’ drills as he halted it to emphasize on the positioning play of the defender.

The coach gathered the players and explained a few basic tips of being a defender, such as how to position your body, staying calm, and backtracking. He then paired the players up with both of them facing each other and started of with a backtracking drill, where the attacker will run forward while the defender will backtrack and players will change roles in turn.

“This drill is to training your footwork so that you won’t injure yourself in training or real matches” said the coach.

A little bit of fun was added in the same drill with the attacker trying to out run the defender. “If the attacker has run past you, what’s the point of backtracking? Have more common sense. Turn around and run with the attacker.”

The “2 on 1” drill was resumed and the defensive play improved. After the drills it was the much more anticipated game play which everyone enjoyed the most. Overall, it was just usual business with a bid of extra intensity from the new coach who has high hopes for the club.