Distributing Skills into Categories & Creating a Google Site

 Hi Everyone!

This week I spent time distributing goalkeeper skills into the categories that I created last week: Distribution & Foot Skills, Handling, Diving & Shot Stopping, One-on-Ones, Set Pieces, and Crosses. I've also included a Goalkeeper Fitness category that I'm considering including to provide exercises for developing fitness and specific muscle strength relevant to goalkeeper skills. As I noted before, skills like footwork, positioning, and communication are overarching and will therefore be included as they relate to the specific skills below.

These are the skills and how I've separated them into the categories above:

• Distribution & Foot Skills
• Hand distribution
• Goal kicks
• Pass backs
• Handling
• Parrying
• Catching high
• Catching low
• Diving & Shot Stopping
• Diving (high, medium, low)
• Recovery (getting up)
• Reactions (getting set)
• Foot saves
• One-on-Ones
• Cutting down angles
• Loose balls
• Decision-making (timing, anticipation)
• Set Pieces
• Corner kicks
• Free kicks
• Penalty kicks
• Crosses
• Lofted crosses
• Driven crosses
• Attacks along the goal line

I also created a website on Google Sites and have begun to play with the features and settings. I've also started creating pages for each of the categories and am starting to add subpages to each for the skills. Some of these skills, for example Hand Distribution (throwing overhead, rolling the ball, or punting), can be broken down further into underlying skills, but I plan to cover these together since they are connected through decision-making.

One aspect of my project that I'm unsure of at this point is how I should go about highlighting the skills that I've deemed or shown to be most important to develop in young or inexperienced goalkeepers. At this point I'm considering providing resources for all of the skills I've presented, but on the website homepage will point to specific skills that are most crucial and strategies for figuring out the skills on which the trainer should focus. For example, one common case would be focusing less on foot skills (goal kicks and pass backs) if the goalkeeper already has experience as a player. Another case might be developing diving early if the goalkeeper has experience playing Ultimate or Baseball, because they are at risk of establishing a habit of diving on their stomach.