Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Head SAFE: Brain Build Up

Edu-Club: Coaches Across Continents

Coaches Across Continents

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Purposeful Play:

Two teams play a game to goal on a small sided field in 10 minute intervals (adjust time as necessary)

The field represents the brain and 1 game represents 10 years playing a contact sport.

Every 15 seconds, the coach tosses out ~3-5 cones (or other objects) onto the field.

Any player that steps on a cone/object or hits a cone/object must freeze for 15 seconds.

Purposeful Questions After the Game - Ask Questions and Listen to Answers:

What kinds of things ‘build up’ in your brain if you play contact sports for a long time?

Purposeful Play - Use Your Imagination or Our Suggestions to Create New Ways of Playing:

Before playing again, ask the participants for different decisions that can help prevent brain damage.

After making 5 successful uninterrupted passes, ANYONE on the field can call out 1 of these good decisions. Each ‘Good decision’ called out = slowing down the rate that the coach throws cones onto the field.

Purposeful Questions After the Game - Ask Questions and Listen to Answers:

What is the name of the protein that builds up in our brain and inhibits neurotransmitters? Tau protein

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