Day 12 - UWCSEA

Day 12! Only 10 days left of my trip out here in Singapore. Weird to think how in just 10 days my abroad trips, and gap year in general will be pretty much over. Strange.

The day started off poorly. After having a nice lie in, because we only had an evening session, I went to go have a shower. Now, our apartment that we live in isn't really that nice at all. Our room and the living room isn't too bad, but the kitchen and toilets are just in woeful condition. One of the highlights, though, is that the shower isn't too bad. To my horror, as I turned on the shower, I found out that the heater that actually gave us some warmth in the shower wasn't switching on, so I had to bare having a freezing cold shower. I love my showers, so if I have to suffer with only being able to have a freezing cold shower every morning I'm going to be distraught.

We only had 1 session booked in for today, at UWCSEA. We were told yesterday that we'd have a group each, so we both planned sessions for our groups, and were both looking forward to it. After just over a week, I was finally getting some proper coaching time on my own, and planning and doing a session by myself. About time. 

We got to UWCSEA, and Harvey seemed to be taking all of the groups for the warm up, so we didn't really know what was happening. After he was finished, Daymon split everyone up into their own seperate groups. Dan got the under 12 boys, while I had under 14 girls. After expecting quite a lot of players, I was a bit miffed to find that I had 6 players. 6. That was including 2 girls that had been brought up from the under 10's. My session was planned for at least 8 people so to have 6 was a bit of a shock. Especially as everyone else seemed to have a big group of kids. Oh well. Part of being a coach is adapting to these situations. So I did. I changed my session completely.

I started off with a warm up that got all the girls dribbling around in the area, and doing different things with the ball, getting them moving about.

I then took them into a king of the ring style game, where each player has their own ball, and they have to protect their ball, while attempting to kick the other players' ball out of the area. Played it a couple of times, they seemed to enjoy it. Happy days.

Then I went into the main session, which I made into a skills session, where the players work on dribbling, and producing a skill to get past a defender. That went pretty well, and they all seemed to enjoy that, too. Which was good.

Lightening alarms meant that it cut the session short for a little bit. But when we got back on, we only had 20 minutes left, so we got straight into a match. Coach Yaz joined in, and so did I so it ended up 4v4 which was okay. The girls enjoyed it which was the main thing. All in all a decent session.

Dan had another session with Norm after, so I went home without him. Grabbed some food and chilled out, hopefully Universal Studios tomorrow, which should be good.