FIH Top Coach Masterclass Series 1

Episode 1: Investigating Individual Creativity
with Jimmy Culnane

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  • Author
    Jimmy Culnane
  • Level
    Advanced
  • LIVE Session
    3 June 2024
  • 2hr LIVE Session
    19:30 cest (Geneva)

Jimmy Culnane is Director of Hockey at Wimbledon HC in England, the Scotland Senior Women's Assistant Coach and Head coach of the Scotland U21 Women.

Physical conditioning by the junior world champions

A passing game played by ball carriers...

Reflecting on 15 years experience in talent coaching, candidates will get the opportunity to explore a reverse engineering approach to coaching:

  • ⁠What do coaches perceive as creative and why? 
  • ⁠Is hockey behind other sports and how do we help? 
  • ⁠Are there differences in talent coaching and performance coaching? 
  • ⁠How do we get to more creative athletes at performance level? 


The course will look to form a blueprint of technical coaching that supports and guides athletes to be more threatening playing forward and makes the game more fun to watch for spectators.
Wales vs Scotland March 2024 - Credit: Irfon Bennett (Hoci Cymru)