Coach Knows Best! Their Views on Sportplan

  • March 20th, 2015
  • Camilla Chapman

Here at Sportplan, we always love to hear feedback and that coaches and players from afar are enjoying our coaching resource. We recently spoke to two of our finest and experienced coaches to hear how and why they are using Sportplan for their coaching!

Todd Johnson currently coaches his daughter's U11 soccer team, and originally started using Sportplan a number of years ago.

"I was looking for something that was going to be easy for me doing diagrams and creating my own activities. I was using Powerpoint slides but Sportplan was a lot easier, it had all the types of icon that I wanted to use for diagrams - then there was a lot more drills out there so it's great for new ideas!"

Rak Patel has been a coach for ten years, working in summer schools and uses Sportplan in his current school, Claremont Prep.

I'm using Sportplan now a lot more than in the last couple of years. There's currently 14 members of my staff that are all on Sportplan, so they can easily see their own and each other's work easily! I like all of the visual tools too, such as being able to use it on a whiteboard.

Rak also discussed how he found Sportplan 'valuable', particularly enjoying our mobile app - available for free on iOS and Android.

"I think it can give good experience to coaches and students when it comes to coaching. I also think it's key to an athlete's development in the long-term, with all of the exercises and tools you have on hand.

"I like the app a lot, it's handy that I don't have to print out the sessions as I can just get them up on my phone!"

With the hundreds of drills available in each sport, you're spoilt for choice on which one to include in your training - and Todd certainly had difficulty picking out his favourite!

"I wouldn't say there's one particular warm-up that I use, as I use a lot of them! There's a lot of different ones (drills) out there and I'm finding new ones all the time that I might like and if I see one I really like, particularly the bonus drill we get, then I use it."

You've heard their opinions on Sportplan, maybe you're feeling inspired to make the most of your coaching with our website. Then look no further than our videos to help you with our features, as well as our past blog on the ways to be organised with Sportplan.

So would our coaches recommend Sportplan?

"I have already recommended Sportplan to others, and my new assistant coach is already signed up," Todd told us. Rak added: "I do recommend Sportplan to all teachers and coaches, all can benefit in the same way we do and easily access plans for different ages."