Ex-Galway football manager leads new coaching venture

THREE Galway Gaelic football coaches have joined forces in a novel venture aimed at improving the skills set of players at club and county level.

Former Galway team manager and star midfielder Kevin Walsh has linked up with ex-county selectors Brian Silke and Sean Conlon to launch GrowCoach, a new online GAA coaching solution designed for coaches from under age, club and elite levels to help players perform to their optimum ability.

GrowCoach has already delivered numerous workshops to GAA clubs and county teams throughout Ireland. Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, GrowCoach is now bringing its exclusive coaching model online with a series of pre-recorded and live webinars aimed directly at coaches of all grades.

Walsh, Silke and Conlon offer unique coaching solutions, which are primarily built on the principle of spatial awareness – taking space and making space. Webinars and workshops will focus on both off-the-ball and on-the-ball techniques and skills of spatial awareness while also looking at footwork, balance, and offensive and defensive play in the modern game.

GrowCoach works with coaches to challenge the environment of the player, introducing smart and incisive coaching techniques which will build and show individual players their crucial roles in taking space and making space. Empowering and upskilling coaches during the current lockdown period and assisting them in preparing for the intensity of the new and forthcoming seasons is the primary aim of GrowCoach.

It will also explore the areas of behaviour and cultures, both on and off the field of play, while also looking at the critical techniques of footwork and balance. Many other coaching topics and skills will be delivered in the GrowCoach series of webinars.

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