Covid Update – 24.3.2021
Please find attached the latest update relating to Covid restrictions
Return to play guidelines issued by Rebel Og coaching.
Rebel Og Coaching are helping club coaches and youth players (13-17) prepare for the commencement of GAA activities with an exciting offering of skills in hurling and football along with activities to help with athletic development backed by Setanta College and the National Games Development Department. Over the next 5 weeks, our GDA’s will be releasing a skill each week for boys to practice at home to help them hone their technical proficiency ahead of the new season. Cork GAA Games Manager, Kevin O Callaghan, thanked our team of GDA’s for their excellent work in producing this content and acknowledged that coaches can use this content by distributing it their own club players to give them a chance to knock off their rustiness while helping their physical and mental wellbeing.
Coaches can sign up to receive the skills content each week via direct email by completing the form here
(The content will not be sent to secretaries for week 2 and beyond)
The skills for week 1 are linked here:
FOOTBALL : https://youtu.be/-tFZ0lLUUjM
HURLING : https://youtu.be/ICwpfguIXeI
COACHES: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THESE LINKS TO YOUR PLAYERS TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO ENGAGE IMMEDIATELY.
ATHLETIC DEVELOPMENT WEEK 1
“Reducing Injury Risk” Webinar, Tuesday March 16th at 7pm,
Join at https://bit.ly/3t47Jza run by our National Games Development Department.
Registration for the ‘Be Ready to Play’ Athletic Development programmes is and remains open and coaches and players can be continuously encouraged to register through the GAA eLearning site https://learning.gaa.ie/bereadytoplay. Players and coaches can start to engage at any time. The programmes are tailored separately to the Youth, Adult and the Advanced Adult player (male and female) and coach.
More information on ‘Be Ready to Play’ is available at https://www.gaa.ie/news/ground-breaking-be-ready-to-play-coaching-programme-launched/.
Rebel Og Coaching are especially encouraging all club u15 coaches to sign up for these initiatives as our GDA’s will be providing supports for this group for the whole season.
Be Ready To Play – March 16th Sports Science Webinar
The first ‘Be Ready to Play’ webinar on reducing injury risk is running on Tuesday March 16th at 7pm, join at https://bit.ly/3t47Jza
Registration for the ‘Be Ready to Play’ Athletic Development programmes is and remains open and coaches and players can be continuously encouraged to register through the GAA eLearning site https://learning.gaa.ie/bereadytoplay. Players and coaches can start to engage at any time. The programmes are tailored separately to the Youth, Adult and the Advanced Adult player (male and female) and coach.
More information on ‘Be Ready to Play’ is available at https://www.gaa.ie/news/ground-breaking-be-ready-to-play-coaching-programme-launched/.
Final call for Rebel’s Bounty Direct Debits
Please note that tomorrow Thursday, March 11th represents the deadline for entry to this year’s Rebels’ Bounty draw by Direct Debit. Please see Rebels’ Bounty – Cork GAA (gaacork.ie) for details .
Club coordinators are asked to please submit any completed direct debit mandate forms to the office in advance of this deadline.
Football Development Goal Keeping Workshops
Football Development Goal Keeping Workshops
Workshop aimed at youth and adult club goalkeepers and coaches.
–We would like to invite coaches and players from around Cork who are interested in learning more about developing high quality Gaelic Football Goalkeepers in your clubs. We plan to run two interactive 1 hour webinars which will be followed by a number of practical pitch sessions across the county once COVID restrictions are relaxed. This event is designed for coaches and players of all levels of ability and experience.
Webinar 1 (March 15th @ 8pm) will focus on:
· Evolution of the Goalkeeper position as one of the most vital positions in any team today
· How we select goalkeepers from a young age & what talents & qualities we should be looking at
· Taking a longer term view of the development pathway for young Goalkeepers from age 11 to 18
Webinar 2 (March 31st) will focus on:
· Kick Out techniques, skills & strategies
· Shot-stopping & footwork skills
· Handling & football skills
· Communication & mental skills
The facilitators for these sessions will include the following people:
Billy Morgan – Nemo Rangers
Conor Counihan – Aghada
Ray O’Mahony – Eire Og
Brian Morgan – Nemo Rangers
Kevin Murphy – Boherbue
Pat Prendergast – Bandon
Billy O’Connor – Cullen
Alan Quirke – Valley Rovers
Please register for thie first workshop on the 15th March using the following link.
