Our coach on Sunday

One of the sports that Tony coaches at Coach my Sport is Floorball.  Prior to starting my placement I had never heard of the sport and Tony showed me a promotional video of professional teams playing.  It is very big in Scandinavian countries apparently.  I am keen to learn more about it and asked if I could go along to the session on Thursday when he coaches it.  Last week I received and email from Tony to say that there was a Great Britain women’s floorball coach doing a ladies only come and try session in Perth and would I like to go.  I jumped at the chance.  On driving up to Perth for the session I was a bit worried and apprehensive as I literally knew nothing about the sport.  I googled it and listened to a quick run down of how to play and the rules.  Turns out it is like Unihockey.  Tony was there when I arrived as his daughter had been at the children’s morning session.  I was glad of this as I was nervous about the session.  He introduced me to the coach and then we had a get together with the other players.  There were quite a few ladies in the fifties there which I was quite surprised about as I had assumed that it would have been all younger people.  All the other players had previous experience other than myself but I just decided to try my best and enjoy the experience, as the purpose in going was to learn about the sport so as to be able to coach it, not to make the GB team.  The coach took it right back to basics, focusing on techniques and movement which was great for me being a complete novice.  She kept the session fun and engaging and the hours flew in.  Later in the day we had to play against each other and by this point we were all quite tired.  But I just tried to remember all we had learned and have fun with it. I had a great afternoon.  Learned so much and met a great bunch of ladies.  I was very glad to have gone along and now feel I have a better understanding of the game in order to help more effectively with the coaching sessions.  I am really looking forward to seeing the kids play this Thursday and am more confident in my abilities to assist them in the session now.