Goalkeeping

Goalkeeping

EQ

Working EQ: "How can a goalkeeper best avoid having goals scored against her during a soccer game?"

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Blog 16: Advisory Meeting #2

EQ: How can a goalkeeper best avoid having goals scored against her during a soccer game?

Answer #2:

A goalkeeper can best avoid having goals scored against her during a soccer game by having a strong foundation in tactical ability.

3 (actually 4 since I couldn't narrow it down) details:

  • Goalkeepers need to know when to dive or move to the ball.  If you dive too soon you won't be able to get back up in the case of a shot getting rebounded back into play.
  • Goalkeepers need to offer strong communication to the team.  Goalkeepers need to line up their defenders in the case of an oncoming attack.

  • Goalkeepers can't act, they need to react.  In a one on one situation you wait for the attacker to make a mistake.

  • Goalkeepers need to know when to come off their line.  Waiting too long to come off your line allows the attacker more time to figure out their next move and chip a shot over your head.


Sources to support my answer:

Source 28: "Extending the Goalkeepers Range - Sweeper Keeper." Serious Goalkeeping - Goalkeeper Tactics. Serious Goalkeeping, n.d. Web. 09 Jan. 2014.

Source 17: Benjamin, Jeff. "JB Goalkeeping - Positioning." JB Goalkeeping - Positioning. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Oct. 2013. <http://www.jbgoalkeeping.com/position.html>.

Source 12 A/B: Wade, Allen. "Chapters 1-6." Positional Play: Goalkeeping. Spring City, PA: Reedswain Videos, 1997. 2-15. Print.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Blog 15: Independent Component Approval 2

1.  I plan on using my own training with Legacy Soccer Club.  Along with the training I will include any game time I play so I get the full experience of the game.  During training I work both by myself and with my team.  Training both independently with a coach and with a team gives a full perspective on the pre-game scenarios.  Then my work during actual games will provide a tactical view of the game from both the perspective of a player and an onlooker.  I will be training primarily with Kim Nemeth, my mentor, but also with Andre de la Rambelje as he is the head coach of the Girls Under 18 Legacy Team.  (My team)

2.  I will have someone take pictures of me while I'm training and during games.  These images will be candid shots of me training and playing.

3.  The way to learn the most about any sport is to actually play it.  By immersing, then subsequently analyzing, myself in the plays, I am learning the most.  In fact, I have come up with the most possible answers to my EQ through training and watching others play.  Training gives the best technical perspective of the game.  Through that you are learning skills and proper technique that propel your athletic prowess.  Through playing games you are learning the tactical side of the game which includes any sort of game scenario.  The only way to improve yourself and prevent mistakes is to actually make the mistakes.  By allowing a goal and then analyzing what I did wrong, I am coming up with possible answers to my essential question.

4. The log has been posted on the right hand side of the blog.

Thursday, February 6, 2014

Blog 14: Independent Component 1

Literal:

  • "I, Sarah Solar, affirm that I have completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work."
  • My mentor, Kim Nemeth, and my coach, Andre De La Rambelje helped me the most, since they're my coaches.  They were the ones that coached me through my training from the start of the year for this particular component.
  • [here is the link to my hours]
  • I completed over 30 hours of personal and team training as a goalkeeper.  I worked on both tactical and technical skills that improved my knowledge of the game and the position.
Interpretive:

  • I spent several hours each week during the season to complete these hours.  During the games I played, I definitely learned the definitions of tactical vs. technical training.  I trained or was playing during every single minute of the hours I have submitted.  During games I was both playing and analyzing what could have been done better.  During my training I was learning the ways that focus and the psychological aspect of goalkeeping needs to be overcome.
  • Here are the images showing some of what I did during independent component.  Please excuse the poor quality of a few of the images, the person taking the images was using a device they had never used before.
Applied:

  • I furthered my knowledge of the foundation of my topic my immersing myself in the actual activity through games and training.  The best way to gather knowledge of a sport is to actually play the game, and that is exactly what I was doing.
  • Example 1: During my training I entered the psychological side of goalkeeping during high diving.  I was required to dive over a rope (approximately 2 feet off the ground).  This is a drill I've always had trouble with, and my mentor, Kim Nemeth, has constantly reassured me that if I forget about everything and stop thinking, that I will finally make the jump to proficiency.
  • Example 2:  During my mentorship one day, I was introduced to the difference and associations of tactical vs. technical training.  During a game shortly after I learned that, I actually experienced it and thought about it.  During the game you use tactical (in game) moves.  You don't focus on the technical (or proper technique) during saves.  In fact, you don't think about it much at all.  But both are extraordinarily important.