Session standards

A session standard is the shape of one kind of session your club runs: its blocks, each block's share of the time and what each block is for. Every plan made with it follows that shape exactly, and Hobbit's job is to fill each block with content built on decisions and the game.

Write one standard for each kind of session, not for each age group or team. A weekday themed session, a trial session for new children, a private lesson, a pre-match session and a camp day run differently, so each gets its own. Two sessions that differ only in age group, numbers, pitch, theme or team are the same kind: you give those on the confirmation form every time. A club usually needs only a few.

Open Session standard under Session design in the sidebar.

The seven templates

Hobbit ships seven templates, and none ranks above the others:

• Themed sessions: Hobbit · DGC (five blocks), and the session shapes the English FA, US Soccer, the DFB and the KNVB publish (compared in Session design).
• Trial Session: a child's first visit, parents watching. Play on Arrival 10, Ball Games 15, Small-Sided Games 20, Match 15. New and regular players are mixed in every group, every new child is praised by name at least once, and the last few minutes go to telling parents what each child managed.
• Private Lesson: one to three players on one or two skills. Warm-up and Ball Feel 10, Focus Skill 20, Live Challenge 20, Home Challenge 10. The coach plays as a real opponent, and nobody weaves through cones.

The trial session and the private lesson are there to show what a standard is for: a different kind of session with a shape of its own. Pre-match sessions, camps and festivals are not built in; build those as your own.

The length follows the training slot

The length of a session is not part of a standard. It is however long you have the pitch, so you set it each time on the confirmation form, and Hobbit shares the minutes out by each block's proportion, in five minute steps and never under five minutes for a block. This holds for every standard, the federation shapes included. The minutes in a standard are its usual length and each block's share: a private lesson of 10, 20, 20 and 10 planned for 90 minutes becomes 15, 30, 30 and 15.

Hobbit · DGC shares the time its own way: it runs 30 to 180 minutes, the extra or missing time lands on its three middle blocks, and the warm-up and the closing game barely move.

The page

Your own standards come first, then the seven templates. Select one to see all of it: each block's minutes and share drawn large, the rules for the whole session, the session from start to finish with each block's job, and the sessions you have planned with it, marked with the teams that used it. Tap a session to open it.

"Plan a session with this standard" (or "with this template") opens Session design, and the confirmation form starts on that standard. On a phone your standards and the templates sit under two tabs, and that button stays at the bottom of the screen.

Three ways to build one

Tap "New" and pick a way to start.

Upload or paste a plan you use (Pro): a plan your club uses today, as Word (.docx), PDF or a photo. Hobbit keeps only the structure and each block's intent, reads it in under 30 seconds and opens it in the editor for you to check; nothing is kept until you save. The drills inside are yours and are not stored.

Talk it through with AI: describe how one of your sessions runs: its parts, how long each lasts, what each is for. Hobbit turns it into a standard card in the chat, saved only when you confirm. You can also send a photo or PDF of your plan in the chat.

Start from scratch: set the blocks, their minutes and what each one is for yourself.

To start from a template instead, select it and tap "Copy and make it yours", then rename, merge and change the minutes.

What a standard holds

A standard is a name plus a set of blocks, and each block has three things:

• Its name: warm-up, theme practice, game, whatever you call it.
• Its minutes: at your usual length. When a session runs longer or shorter, they set each block's share.
• Its job: describe what this block is for and what you want from it: what to train, in what form, what you care about. The clearer this is, the closer the generated session is to the one you had in mind. Leave it blank and Hobbit writes it.

Finally, notes for the whole session: limited equipment, pitch conditions, which language to use for terms, your habits.

A standard's minutes add up to 20 to 240, with up to 12 blocks.

Using it

Choose the standard on the confirmation form when you generate; your own come first, then the seven templates, and on the same device the form starts on the one you picked last. Set the length there too: it starts at the length you gave in the chat, otherwise at the standard's usual length.

Deleting a standard does not affect sessions already generated.

Allowance

Building standards is free. "Upload or paste a plan you use" has the AI read the file and is part of Pro. A standard built in the chat counts like any other conversation (see Chat).