By Tim Bradbury, Director of Coaching, Eastern New York Youth Soccer 
Association
To be completely honest, I started this as a one-off article designed to help candidates I had met in a variety of courses who were battling with how to manage a Freeze moment. After I completed the original piece, a candidate I had worked with on a US Soccer "C" license asked I complete the series. Many hours and attempts later, here you go.
By way of introduction, I would advise that whatever coaching method a coach is using: Progressive, play practice play, phase play, shadow play, functional, small sided games, coaching in the game or a mixture thereof, how effective the session is will depend to a huge degree on the quality of the interactions of the main characters. These interactions, regardless of the overall approach chosen, can be guided by all that follows. As a final tip, I urge coaches as they plan sessions to try and add which tool and delivery method they will use and when they foresee using it.
Remember that just stopping any activity, bringing the players in and having a long chat about whatever is not teaching and that learning is most unlikely to occur while a coach just talks.
Methods of Delivery That Can Be Used Within Any Tool
Positive Coaching, Key Words, Command, Demonstration and Questions
As I allude to throughout this document, effective coaching needs an array of presentation methods. Coaches rely on and employ one or two at the risk of losing the attention of their players. Variety may be the spice of life but it is the key to effective learning. Whether a coach chooses a freeze, coaching in the flow, individual reference, natural stoppage or forced stoppage, any or all the methods below can be employed.
Questions: High order/low order, factual, provocative, comparative and guided– So much information is available on the planning and use of questions that it is impossible to do the topic justice here. I urge coaches to put the questions they intend to use and the moments they intend to use them on their session plan. Plan the initial question and two or so follow up questions that can be used to explore the topic a little deeper.
Positive coaching-Every coach should have the ability to catch their players being good and the research from Visek et al on FUN MAPS shows how important players believe this ability is. It is essential when using positive coaching that a coach