Paul Divilly

@KevinMcDaid1 @Shane_Mangan Hi Kevin, I would be interested in checking it out please

Big thanks to @Shane_Mangan for joining me yesterday to talk about the ShotArc.com system and for sharing the summary shot map below. Will be posting more about the system over the coming weeks but if anyone interested in a demo login please msg me.

@m_brosnan Yes please

I was at the Performance Analysis Community event/Setanta coaching conference/St Joseph's coaching clinic recently. Few quick takeaways from them here. Nothing groundbreaking, but some excellent presentations anyway. Two-pointers♟️ Prepping scenarios 🧠 Learning from defeat 🔄

🚨TIME TO PLAY WORKSHOP🚨 🎡 Exploring the Meaning & Role of Play in Youth Sport 🎡 I’m running a FREE pilot workshop designed for U5-U12 volunteer coaches from ALL Sports who want to make play a more central part of children’s sporting experiences Attendees will gain practical insights on: ✅ Creating playful, inclusive coaching environments ✅ Balancing structure & freedom in coaching ✅ Encouraging creativity, learning & fun through play ✅ Resources to use at with your teams Participants will have the opportunity to complete a short survey after the workshop to evaluate its impact and help improve it 📩 For More Info & To Register Get In Touch 📞 083 320 5486 📧 o.mooney4559@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk

If you see this nonsense run a mile. This is just one online scam, however these are everywhere now. 6 year olds are not athletes. There is some great classes and programs out there in Ireland now that allow them play and have fun in gymnastic clubs, Athletics Club and some other team sports clubs. I’m not talking about those. They are just providing an organised setting for children to play and learn. I’m talking about this notion of preparing your child to be an athlete. It’s a disgrace and a stain on my profession and adjacent professions those who sell this rubbish. It’s the early adultification and commodification of children. Professional Football academies (or even amateur ones at it now), S&C for 7 year olds, early intensification in Tennis and gymnast and similar - they are all the same. They are all causing damage to children in the hope of finding the very rare star. More than anything else children should play. Get them out on play dates, playing in their estate, to camps and classes with loads of other kids of various ages. They should sample as much organised sport as humanly possible before puberty. They will naturally draw to what suits them physically and socially in time. 80% of them will be nothing more than average. 15+% “might” be “handy” and an even smaller % will be exceptional. The biggest reason they will be exceptional is because of genetics. And you can’t change that, so stop trying! And anyone talking about your child as an athlete or a future athlete, is stealing from you, and your child

@pbasilstrength Squat

“How do you progress the Squat?” It's one of the most common questions I get I have a free guide on my yearly squat progression for you I use this to crush PRs with athletes and in my own training Comment “SQUAT” below and I’ll DM it to you

@pbasilstrength Plyos

You know you need to do Plyometrics But you don’t know how And you feel like you’re failing your athletes by not doing them I have a free 12 week Plyo Progression you can run right now Comment “PLYOS” below and I’ll DM it to you

@pbasilstrength Plyos

You know you need to do Plyometrics But you don’t know how And you feel like you’re failing your athletes by not using them I have a free 12 week Plyo Progression you can run right now Comment “PLYOS” below and I’ll DM it to you

The kickout mark has become a car crash. What behaviour are we trying to promote here? Run away from your man if he catches a kickout?

Kildare GAA Talent Academy Athletic Development Coach - Paid Internship. Role Profile Kildare GAA are inviting applications for two Talent Academy Athletic Development Intern Coaches. Coaches will become members of the Kildare GAA Talent Academy Athletic Development Team working with both Gaelic Football and Hurling Squads for the 2025 season. For more information please visit the below link: kildaregaa.ie/kildare-gaa-ta…

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Worlds gone mad but Feerick’s Hotel, €5 pint of Guinness is beautiful. Lovely choice of food, Specials today were Vegetable Soup, Roast Beef, Bacon & Cabbage!! #GreatVariety

Our U13 and U14s were joined by guest coach Paul Divilly today. Our lads were put through their paces by Paul both on the pitch and in the gym. Our thanks to Paul for such an enjoyable session. #MiniMoores #Moores2024 #SummerCamp

In an exclusive interview ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland SHC final, Cork star Patrick Horgan tells @DonalOgC about his obsession with all things hurling and how memories and friendships mean more to him than medals and records | Watch in full: youtube.com/watch?v=ac5vB8… #GAA

He had a voice that conjured up magic; he created masterpieces with his words; and he enhanced memories for generations. To players, he was a true friend. Our deepest condolences to the family of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. A legend of Gaelic games. A legend of Ireland. RIP.

Paid internships Looking for S&C coaches/Sports Scientists who are interested in getting involved with Kildare GAA Talent Academy Program for the 2024 season 🏳️ DM if you’ve any questions. Retweets appreciated

@Fergus_Connolly pauldiv@gmail.com

Any recent graduates out there? I just updated an old ‘Non-Sport’ reading list ‘For Future S&C’ coaches … (Basically the top 20 non-sport books I’ve used that’ll amplify your career potential …) Just email or message me if you’d like a copy Trust me … I’ve read a few!

@HowellsDan Send

This week we launch a number of free guides on: - principles for Data skills - principles for Rehab - principles for LTAD - principles for High Performance Reply "send" and ill get the first one over to you (Rehab) this week!

Inter County Hurling is goosed because of coaching, or lack of. There is a serious lack of depth to the coaching of the game. Limerick have a principled based strategic approach. We would call this the 80:20 idea. 80% of what you do is principle based and always stick to it. It’s not X’s and O’s. It’s heuristics, ideas, metaphors to help you quieten chaos. 20% of what you would do (or even less ideally) is game to game or maybe influenced by who you are playing next. Match ups, lines you hold, will we attack over, through or around? That kind of thing. An experienced and well oiled team may even be as close as 95:5 in the strategy:tactical approach. Kilkenny have a culture. Hard to know if they are strategic or tactical. But their culture demands a certain element of in-built principle based approach. They may say it’s keeping it simple, and it probably feels like that. But they actually have a very rich imbedded strategic and tactical philosophy. Like Kerry in football. Everyone else in hurling is tactically based. Changing on the fly all the time. Changing based on opposition more than makes sense or allows learning or a team identity to emerge. That’s the problem. Limerick are brilliant. Excellent bunch of players, well managed and well coached. But they are laughing themselves to a 5/6/7 in a row unless others change their mindset. My mother would have won 1 All Ireland with this Limerick group, they are that good.. But the management/coaching is helping the consistency and the multiple titles. It’s very similar to Dublin Footballers. The structure and support helps consistency. Hurling has drifted completely to the individual. I’ve spoke endlessly about the “why” (over technical, wall hurling, isolated practice obsession etc). But it is a team sport. And a principle based approach works so much better with teams. Numbers continue to drop and it’s sad. It is a great game. But now the highest level is boring and predictable. In many ways it can’t get out of its own way as it’s such an emotionally driven and followed sport. It is unique and it is brilliant. But it’s not so special or exceptional that it can ignore the realities of modern life or subjects like skill acquisition or motor learning..for instance.