Comparison

I am going to be comparing my improvements and difficulties in both football and tennis. I shall be explaining the parts in the session which I found challenging and the easier parts in the session which I found easier. Now I shall be explaining how I liked and disliked some of the practical sessions, I believe I have improved in both areas of the sports, in football I believe I have improved significantly in mastering the cryuff turn and the part I found most challenging in football was the defending as it is my main weakness I believe in football. In tennis I believe I improved dramatically as I very rarely play tennis on a regular basis so there is more chance of a big improvement than in football. I believe I was ok at forearm before we did our sessions but I worked mostly on backhand and serving and I believe I improved very much over the last few session, my area to work on is most definitely backhand and serving still even though I have improved very much.
In conclusion I believe I have significantly improved in tennis and improved in football but not as much as tennis

Critically Analyzing Tennis and Football

I now shall be critically analyzing all the sessions, my strengths throughout the tennis practical sessions was definitely forearm shots because forearm shots usually come natural to me compared to backhanded shots. Also the movement and agility were my strengths in tennis as I am very sporty and do a lot of fitness and sport. My strengths in football was the first touch and mainly all the exercise I was pretty familiar with and confident with.
My areas to be worked on in tennis are my backhanded shots because they do not come natural to me at all, the serving because I am not very confident with my serving ability because placing both accuracy and power into a shot I find very hard to execute. My areas to be improved in football are my ability to work with others not as good or as far ahead as football as I believe I am.

Session 2 Tennis

In session 2 of tennis we started light jogging around the court several times before Nichola came out, after the warm up we each got a tennis racket and tennis ball and concentrated on keeping the ball up in the air, this made sure we used hand and eye co-ordination and gave each player a good feel of the ball and racket and footwork was very important for balance and this lasted for a duration of 5 minutes.
After the first part of the session we went onto a game called round the world, this game in detail was all 10 players were split into two groups of 5 and 5 players at either side of the court. The aim of the game was just to return the ball into the opposing court and if you missed one of your life’s would go and you had 3 lives before the game started to try and stay in all the way until someone else lost all their lives. To lose a life you would not hit it into the designated opponent’s area. This game made you use a lot of technique to handle the racket and hit it in the centre of the racket and you needed positioning for this and this is a very important technique in tennisafter this we focused on backhanded shots I believe this is a weaknesses for me compared to forearm so I consider it is important to work on my weaknesses so it is essential to work on backhand for myself. At start we each got a racket and a ball and kept the ball in the air but only using backhanded shots and this gave us 5 minutes to warm up our backhand. After this we did another “around the world” only using backhanded shots I found this more difficult as I am more familiar with forearm shots.
After this we went straight into a serving drill where we each had a partner and went on a court between the two and served shots to each other I found this pretty hard to achieve hitting it perfect into the box with power and accuracy overall I believe I improved in serving.

Session 4 - Football

In this session 4 of football we worked on goalkeeping, we started off by running around the court in a steady jog after the warm up we all came into this designated place about one third of the courts size and would jog around the either dive to the left or dive to the right after Nichola shouts out the commands. After this we got into pairs and got a ball between us and made a little goal and one of the pair would be moving form side to side of the goal in and out of the cones and the other player would throw him the ball and he would have to catch it and roll it back. The movement of the goalkeeper was a figure of 8 and went he would get back to where he started the other player would throw him the ball to catch using eye and co-ordination. After this the session finished as we had no time for a game at the end or any other exercises.

Session 3 - Football

in this third session we started with a well worked warm up were was running around all directions and around the court sprinting and side stepping throught the warm up. Sarah took the practical session. First of all we needed to get into groups of threes and a ball between us, one of us three would throw the ball up into the air the player in the middle would control it by either head, chest, thigh or foot and pass it onto the third person and we kept on switching places. after this we got into groups of four and made a little goal, one person went into net, one person threw the ball into play and the other two people was either an attacker or a defender, the defender was suppost to try and tackle the attcker and stop him from scoring and the attckers aim was to score a goal. after this we moved onto a game sarah told us to split up into partners and name our selves 1 or 2. ones was a team and the twos were a team and the game was set out as there was lots of little goals all around the pitch and the aim was to score as many goals as possible and this was a very enjoyable end to the practical with the twos winning 10-8 against the ones.

Session 1 Tennis

first of all nichola took us for this first tennis session we firstly had a jog around 1 side of the court not in straight lines or in circles and side steps after a shot burst of speed. after the warm up we each took a racket and a tennis ball and practicekeepin the ball up usuing both backhand and forearm. after we practice we had to keep the ball in the air for 30 seconds everyone completed that task. after this we all went into partners and practice shot rallies to each other over the net. after the short rallies we went into long rallies to each other hittin the ball to each other over the net quite a distance. after this we went onto a doubles match nichola told us the rules and we understood them well and she demonstrated how to serve in the game and what is out and what is in. we each had a doubles partner and played another pair using 15 love, 30 love, 45 love then match point if both teams had 45 love it would be deuce than advantage then game. so we played the game and we found out it was pretty hard to hit it hard get it over the net and into the designated area so we did not do many smashes at all. but overall i believe we all learnt alot from todays tennis session.

Session 1 Football

in this session we did football and Shaun Macaulay from Sheffield Wednesday took the training session we focused mostly on the cruyff turn after a enjoyable warm up which lasted approximately 10-15 Min's in the warm up we ran around but not in a straight line or in a circle this was really tiring but it was fun an exciting at the same time. Then we moved onto moving with a ball and trapping the ball when Shaun shouted stop, then this progressed onto doing a trick when Shaun shouted cruyff turn we ran and did a cruyff turn and accelerated out. I believe i was pretty confident and did OK with the cruyff turn as i had already done this turn before in my career the cruyff turn is a turn on the ball which you turn dragging the side of your foot 180 degrees an attempet to fool the opposistion. The cruyff turn is a simple turn but can be a huge advantage against the opposing player if u believe u can take the player on with this trick. I believe some of the players could do this turn more easily than others. The players not so good with the turn before the practice improved significantly and also the players who was pretty good at the trick improved a bit aswell. After the ball dribbling and tricks we moved onto a game with the not so good players having as many touches with the ball as they want and the good players having only 2 touches of the ball at a time, to score a goal there was to cones to make a little goal all over the pitch so this game brought awareness and fast feet at the same time. i really enjoyed this game at the end because you had to think fast and Shaun encouraged everyone to use cruyff turn in the game to fool the opposing sides players.