Day 14, 2 weeks in. I have 1 week left, Dan has another 9. We spent our second working weekend back at Victoria Junior College, working at the soccer school there, doing a full day shift.
Again, Dan and I were split up for the majority of the day. I was scheduled to do the under 12's, 14's, then 10's, whereas Dan was meant to have the under 10's twice, and the under 8's.
First session went well, I was with Fook again, and he basically did exactly the same as what he did last week, except with a different trick that the kids had to do. Not much to say on this one, as it was all exactly the same.
After Fook's session, I had a break, where I just chilled out and watched all the other sessions take place. Dan carried on with the second lot of under 10's he had to take. After his session was over, Dan had a long break until his last session so he left to go and get a Subway, while I was meant to be with coach Gavin.
I went up to Gavin to ask him what he wanted me to do and how I could help him set up for his session. Harvey came over, and told me to go and help coach Beng, as Gavin didn't have many. Went over to Beng, and we started with the warm up. 5 minutes later, Harvey came over again, and told me that Ross was busy with a match, so I had to cover for his session while he finished up managing his team during the match. Okay, fair enough. I headed on over and got started.
Being a coach, you learn that sometimes you have to think up sessions on your feet and just go with it. That's exactly what I did with them. I used Bengs "Piggy in the middle" style warm up, before going into an end zone game, as Ross came over. Apparently the whole year the kids have been with them, their attitude has been really poor. After spending 20 minutes with the group I could see exactly where they were coming from. They didn't want to work or train or anything, they just wanted to play matches, which is your worst nightmare as a coach, as you have to basically provide a session for a group of people who don't want to do it. Brill.
We got them into teams and did matches for the remainder of the time that was left, so it wasn't too bad. I then had a couple of hours break before my final session with Ross and Norm, so I grabbed some lunch. Dan came back early so we chilled out for a bit before getting ready for both our final sessions.
Now, I started off helping Ross and Norm. I got given my group and I got them started with their exercise. Daymon then came over and told me that the under 5's coach called in sick. So I then went to under 5's (as I have them tomorrow morning), and Dan took over my group, as there was plenty of other coaches that were coaching his group, so he wasn't as needed over there.
Under 5's were unbelievably hard work, but funny as well. They have a really short attention span, but they were so fun to coach, so the time flew by with them. All we did was short agility exercises, getting them used to running in different directions, and that went really well. We then got them into a match, which was hard work, but fun too. At the end of it, someone had a great idea to give all these 5 year old water pistols, loaded with a lot of water. Safe to say, I walked to the bus stop absolutely soaked. The joys of coaching 5 year olds!
Tomorrow, early start. I'm back with the under 5's, while Dan has the under 8's. Should be a good day!
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