I have been utilizing video analysis with my players/teams for over 25+ years. I first became interested in the idea of using video footage for improving player performance in the early 90's after reading issue #39 of Goalies' World Magazine where they discussed using your VCR as a "Radar Gun".
I quickly started to dive deeper into the idea of frame rates and measuring "reaction time". I started to pour through old English Premier League game footage and "Soccer Saturday" highlights with Graham Leggat! I relished in the idea of being able to record and measure the most minuet details of the goalkeeper position.
After hundreds of hours pouring through game footage it started to become very apparent what was working for certain game scenarios and what was wasn't. What the top goalkeepers were doing that their more mediocre and average counter-parts were not doing.
It also became clearly apparent that the current theories around angle play, one v ones, and shot stopping in general were severely flawed. The idea of narrowing the angle and making the goal smaller was not as effective as was thought. Turns out "reaction time" is king, that the goalkeeper must avoid the "dead zone" at all costs, and that in many situations it is far better to sit deeper in the goal and wait, buying the goalkeeper precious "frames" in order to make the save.
I then built on this concept, and started to take a hard look at "one v one" situations and what the top goalkeepers might be doing. It turned out that many of the top goalkeepers weren't following the "instruction manual". They were deviating away from the status-quo and doing something completely different. They most likely didn't even realize they were doing it, just something learned in childhood through "trial and error". It just worked for them, so they kept doing it. In many cases against the instructions of some of the top goalkeeper coaches. The most obvious was Ajax legend Edwin Van Der Sar. I noticed this while analyzing the popular VHS goalkeeper instructional videos by Frans Hoek.
All of these hours of watching and analyzing slow motion, frame-by-frame footage culminated in the compilation of a 150 page PDF document highlighting my findings and observations. This was circulated to many top goalkeeper coaches world-wide via email and was downloaded over 200,000 times on my once popular goalkeeper website.
The last time this document was circulated was at the 2011 International Goalkeepers Congress in Cologne, Germany. It was read by many Bundesliga goalkeeper coaches and others from around the world.
These concepts and ideas have slowly permeated into the mainstream of goalkeeper theories and philosophies in most of the top leagues around the world.
It was interesting to recently find a video on the Bundesliga youTube channel that seems to be using the same theories and philosophies for One v Ones that I introduced in Cologne in 2011.
Video Analysis is now a regular training tool that I utilize with all of my teams/players/goalkeepers with great success. It is the most powerful tool in my development toolbox.
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