Sunday, 8 September 2013

Ringing in the changes

Now that the blog is a year or so old, I feel it's high time I got round to really pushing the boat out and knuckling down with the chance to make the most of the opportunity to turn this blog into something really useful (groundbreaking, fingers crossed!!), making good use of the Internet to interact with people on a global basis. I wasn't sure on the direction to go with the blog as at the time, as I was committed to my column on the Obo Keepers Resources site and did not want to forgo that, but I think it would be good to offer snippets as much as possible each week to give you advice on improving your game over the course of the season, as you wish to progress your own game, given the distinctive lack of support to goalies across the board (and world!).

The plan is to make the blog more of a forum and a place to learn. And to do this, I need your help: I need you to feedback to me what you want to get out of the reading experience and , so pwease (honest, I can't know what you require, unless people tell me!), so please do! The more in-depth essay style write-ups will be left for the Obo KR site (so that I can process things more greatly and seperate content) and I will try and generate traffic through the other learning centres and forums like Keepers Cafe in order to really get things go.

I'm here to help and be of use so please feel to ask (there's no such thing as a stupid question as they say!). If you've got any questions or have something you want to know more about (whether it's stick weight and balance, or fitness ideas or balance improvement and so on, there's always something to improve and work at in goalkeeping, it's a science/art form!), just post them in the comments section and I'll do my best to answer them. I'm not going to bite anyone's head off and sometimes all you need do is ask; I'm always doing so, at uni I would track down lecturers outside of timetabled hours to get advice and being eternally inquisitive helps development, especially in goalkeeping! Plus, the greatest fear is fear itself, so you never know until you try!

There are many things planned and these will be clearer as I get started on generating more content. And the plan is to really make a go of things (because, why not!). I'm going to start using video and analysis to offer the chance to learn technical aspects visually, and will be setting up a closed Youtube account in order to display technique in action from my own or observed game play and offer personal analysis of factors of good technical ability or goals allowed and why.

Any other ideas feel free to let me know and I'll see what I can do.

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