Sportplan the ultimate multisport coaching tool.
As a hockey coach it is often difficult to find the right training drill, ways of presenting playing strategies and team formations, plan and analyse coaching sessions and games, present to players the correct playing techniques until now. Sportplan Hockey is a serious coaching tool that coaches of all ages and levels would benefit by. And the best part the developers are not sitting on their merits. They are constantly utilizing the expertise of the best hockey coaches to develop applications for all coaches to use. Go Hockey News reviewed their product and gave it the ‘thumbs up’. Through providing the following information you may also take the opportunity to become a user.
Sportplan is designed to make your life as a hockey coach easier. With Sportplan you can:
- Search 550+ of animated and video coaching drills
- Use powerful coaching tools to sketch your own drills and create professional sessions
- Share plans with team and colleagues
- Access Sportplan on your mobile and tablet devices, so you can take your coaching with your wherever you go
So who are the people behind Sportplan and why was it developed. Managing Director and Founder of Sportplan, Bram van Asselt, is a Senior Coach who is passionate about what Sportplan are doing.
“Having spent over 30 years working in coaching and sports development, I wanted to create something to transform the communication of coaching knowledge. I am pleased to say over the years Sportplan has helped over half a million coaches and teachers, and it makes me smile to think how many children and athletes that means we have helped. We continue to innovate both in technology and coaching best practice, and now Sportplan is fully mobile we look forward to helping even more people.”
Sportplan offers two types of membership; a] free and b] paid
Free memberships have limited use of the Sportplan coaching tools and a restricted view of the sport library of videos and animations (3 drills per category). You’ll also receive our weekly newsletter, which includes a drill of the week which you can try with your teams.
Paid memberships have unrestricted access to all of the FEATURES of Sportplan which include;
1. DRILL LIBRARY Sportplan gives you access to the latest coaching ideas, practices and tactics. All demonstrated with animation or video. You will never be short of ideas again. Try it today and start to transform your coaching sessions.
2. TRIED AND TESTED SESSION PLANS: Receive weekly expert sessions. These comprehensive plans, are packed with new drills, easy to follow coaching notes and tips and discussion points, to give you really confidence out on the field
3. CHALKBOARD: Sportplan’s powerful online chalkboard allows you to sketch your own drills and plays. Easily sketch plays and share them with team and colleagues
4. SESSION PLANNER: Sportplan’s powerful session planner makes planning training easy and fun! Simply click and type, insert sketches or search the drill library to insert diagrams. Create professional looking plans in minutes.
5. SPORTS ANIMATOR: With Sportplan Animator you can bring your plays and drills to life, allowing you to engage with your team like never before. Designed for ease-of-use, you can now quickly sketch plays and instantly publish them online for your colleagues and players to view. The Sportplan Animator is designed to complement the online Sportplan planning tools, and gives you seamless integration between the desktop application and the website. New tools allow you to instantly publish tonight’s training, this season’s penalty corner routines or tactical situations and email a passcode protected link to your coaches and players.
The animator uses a unique action-based animation technology; just like in a game, every player’s action relies on the previous action or the action of another player or the movement of the ball. No need to be a Hollywood director to make your animations, there are no timelines here. Simply draw it how you would describe it. There are online tutorials to teach you how to use it.
WHAT DO USERS SAY: “As someone who is new to coaching this site was just what I needed, drills that I can study on the pc and then take with confidence to my training sessions”.
Phil Harvey, United Kingdom
IF YOUR A HOCKEY COACH LOOKING FOR AN IDEAL COACHING RESOURCE FOR NEXT YEARS 2014 SEASON THEN SPEND THE TIME AND FIND OUT MORE ABOUT SPORTSPLAN OR JOIN UP WITH THE LIMITED SPECIAL OFFER FOR GO HOCKEY NEWS READERS – 25% off full membership
Sportplan hockey is used by over 65,000 sports coaches and teachers – to give them more confidence, add variety to their training and improve their team’s performance
