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Post by pigskin13 on Apr 20, 2007 9:14:14 GMT -6
I am going to start a FB Camp for youngsters in our small town. I need suggestions from you that have done it before and I also need a daily "outline" / schedule if you have one. We are looking at going 8 - 12, monday thru friday.
thanks for the help. Pigskin
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Post by brophy on Apr 20, 2007 9:24:16 GMT -6
Stretching
Dynamic Stretch
Form Running
Agility Stations
"Specialists"
---Catching, distraction catches, catching while running, catching over the shoulder
---Back pedal, break on ball, angle drops, etc
"Backs"
---Form throwing, 3 step drops, rollouts
---Stance & starts, mesh exchange, lowering shoulders through pad gauntlet
"LBs"
--stance & start, shuffling, run-throughs, angle drops, form tackling, etc
"DL/OL'
--stance & start, hitting a bag (leverage), form tackling, blocking with hands, duck walking, boards / chutes, etc....
basically
--Stretch / warm up (30 min)
------Agilities [rotating stations] (40 min)
--break---------------------------------------------(5 min)
-----------Individual instruction [rotating stations] (40 min)
--break---------------------------------------------(5 min)
----------------Big Competition / fun (40 min)
-----------------------Cool down / mentoring words / guest speakers / prepare to leave (10 min)
if you don't have many coaches.....divide up the positions based on Days (QBs on Tues / Thurs.....RBs on Tues / Thurs....LBs on Mon / Wed...etc)
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Post by pigskin13 on Apr 20, 2007 9:31:12 GMT -6
Brophy, how do you determine (with the exception of the really big and really small) who goes with the downs and who goes with the backs?
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Post by brophy on Apr 20, 2007 9:42:47 GMT -6
kids decide where they wanna go...heck, they're paying for it.
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Post by donaldduck on Apr 20, 2007 9:48:38 GMT -6
At ours, we send everybody to each station...that means the chunky monkeys get to catch passes and the flaquitos learn a 3 point stance. We're just trying to teach a couple of fundamentals to all kids regardless of size or talent level. We get a couple of varsity kids (hopefully captains) to help out at each station so the kids can see the older guys.
Unfortunately, we'll have construction on campus all summer, so we can't do camp this year.
Oh yeah...our camp is 10 dollars and that's just to cover the cost of their camp shirt.
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Post by coachbw on Apr 20, 2007 10:20:22 GMT -6
Depending on the age, 4 hours may be too long. With our Elementary age kids we go 2 hours, with about 45 minutes of touch/flag football a day and that can still be too much for them.
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Post by fbdoc on Apr 20, 2007 10:30:05 GMT -6
We run ours the same way. Our players run the stations while the coaches float and encourge. We only go for 3 hours witht the following schedule.
9:00 Meet/Greet
9:10 Jog/Stretch/Stride
9:20 Devotion - we are a Christian School
9:25 Water Break - station set up
9:30 Stations - we rotate about every 8 or so minutes depening on numbers.
9:30 RB - stance/start, dive, sweep, toss, counter, bags
9:40 OL - 6 point, 4 point, 3 point, starts, punch, rip bags, man on man
9:50 QB - Grip, stance, footwork, throw mech. drops, rolls
10:00 Water Break
10:05 Resume Stations - players continue to rotate
10:05 Kick - technique, short kicks (accuracy), long kicks
10:15 Tackle - Stance, footwork, form, Rip & Wrap, on bags, on sled
10:25 DB - footwork, backpedal, turn & run, timing, breakups
10:35 Water Break - players continue to rotate
10:35 Coverage - run and rip through shield/bags, sideline drill
10:45 WR - stance, catches, JUGS drills, routes
10:55 Water Break - Snack
11:05 Games - we split the kids up by age and skill for mini games.
11:50 Wrap up speech and activities.
12:00 Dismiss to parents
On the final day we put on a skills showcase for the parents and then finish up with our "Championship" games. Kids all get a t-shirt and everyone goes home happy!
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Post by pigskin13 on Apr 20, 2007 10:30:33 GMT -6
thanks coach, that's good advice... maybe 9:00 - 11:00?
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Post by coachbw on Apr 20, 2007 10:59:44 GMT -6
When we go 2 hours we devote the 1st have to one of the phases of the ball. One day we will run through bags, through, catch, hit the sled, etc. the next we will tackle dummies, cover recievers, and the 3rd day we will snap kick punt, etc. If we have a 4th day (which we decided against this year) we would make it a day of all games and competitions. One other suggestion that I have with really young kids is that they will have fun anytime they are in a competition. Doesn't matter if it is relays, punt/pass/kick stuff, if there is a winner they like it.
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Post by donaldduck on Apr 20, 2007 11:11:35 GMT -6
I forgot to add:
We divide the kids up into 4 groups for a touch football team and they play 1 game Mon - Wed of camp. On Thursday (the last day) we have a punt/pass/kick comp, then use the round robin from the touch football to make a tournament bracket. Kids love it. Since we're a small town, we also get their pictures in the local paper.
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Post by touchdowng on Apr 21, 2007 11:34:38 GMT -6
The schedule that fbdoc shares is 99% what we've done the past 10 years.
Camper numbers increase every year and most kids tend to repeat. We even have kids coming in from out of state (visiting grandparents) that make our camp a yearly thing for them.
We try to "tweak it" slightly each year as we are always looking for improvements.
This summer we will offer our camp at 6pm to 9pm because of so many working moms/dads who have asked for this time. We'll try it and see what happens.
fbdoc's schedule is a good one.
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Post by pigskin13 on Apr 23, 2007 10:46:21 GMT -6
Do any of you guys split it into two groups based on age?? also, what are your age requirements for camp?
thanks for the help.
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Post by los on Apr 23, 2007 11:57:48 GMT -6
Pigskin, our age requirements for youth ball here were at least be 8 yrs old on or before sept 1st, and they couldn't turn 13 till after sept 1st, our teams were then divided in 2 groups, 8-10's and 11-12's. We often had mini camps or station drills early in the 1st week of the season, before handing out equipment to go over the real basic fundamentals, football agilitys, safety stuff, basic rules,etc.. and would just divide up by numbers rather than ages. The little guys seemed to actually learn more and take more interest, by "watching" an experienced older kid in their group do something? We had no player match-ups at this time, so that wasnt a problem. Keep the groups as small as possible to limit standing around, and on a whistle or horn move on to the next station. Just how we did it.
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Post by fbcoach33 on Apr 23, 2007 12:27:37 GMT -6
one thing I would suggest, mentioned above, depending on the age, 2 hours is long enough, we went 3 hours one year and did alot of babysitting the last hour, even though it was organized the little campers had had enough after a couple of hours, I have found shorter is better.
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Post by touchdowng on Apr 23, 2007 19:40:10 GMT -6
we break our camp into NCAA and NFL groups
younger are the NCAA and we put them into teams for their double touch games, the last hour of camp.
same with the NFL guys.
Works well and the kids can say they're "Hurricanes" or "Wolverines".
They love it!
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Post by coachpoe on Apr 23, 2007 20:00:01 GMT -6
very similar to fbdoc in what we do, but we cut it down. We go 6-8 in the evening kids entering grades 4-7. We break them up into 4th-5th grades and 6th-7th graders. I have worked this camp since i graduated high school and it is always a lot of fun. We have them play some 2 hand touch games for the last half hour or so of camp.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2007 20:30:46 GMT -6
I agree on keeping it at two hours. I can't provide our time schedule, but we basically stretched, did indys (kids went through all stations on O and D) and then "installed" a play for our older campers and the younger ones just sort of played around.
We actually do two of these--an overnight camp at the high school in January and a Homecoming camp the week before (on a Sat) our actual Homecoming game. The HC camp is the best because our kids stay and coach after our normal Sat routine, the campers get T shirts and participate in the homecoming parade the next week as well. I was a little worried about attendance since a lot of stuff goes on the fall, but it worked out very well.
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Post by coacher on Apr 23, 2007 20:42:07 GMT -6
Coach - The best advise so far has been the two hour rule. Also you might want to think about mon-thurs. Retention at that age is very small. They are there to have fun and learn some fundamentals of the game. Good luck.
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Post by fbcoach33 on Apr 24, 2007 8:52:34 GMT -6
we only go three days with our real young kids 8-10 maybe a bit short but they want more and want to come back the next year,
we also finish with a flag game the third day, we play in our stadium and get some varsity kids on the PA to annouce it and do play by play over the speakers, its pretty fun and the kids finish on a high note.
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Post by senatorblutarsky on Apr 24, 2007 15:08:58 GMT -6
We go 3 days, 2 hours (in evening). 4 hours seems awful long... We have grades 4-6 (incoming). Last year, we did a camp w/ full pads (for the first time). We had to raise the cost a bit... it was a huge hit (no pun intended).
I have our schedule at home... but if I remember, we would break it down like this:
6-6:10 warm-up
6:10-6:25 Tackling drills
6:25-6:40 blocking drills
6:40-7:15 4 stations: (all rotate through) offensive running game (handoffs, etc.), offensive passing game, defensive defeat block, defensive coverage (the second practice day we did Oklahoma drill, a chase drill during this time, and 1 on 1 routes)
7:15-8:00 we divided up in to teams on the first day (as fair as we can make it) and held practice.
the last day was "the game". HS players coached the teams (we played 6 man, so everyone could be eligible, etc.). They put in a base d, and had about 10 plays written up on cards they would take in to the huddle. Last year the game ended 21-20 in 2 OT. Kids, parents LOVED it... we will do it again this year.
*Insurance was not a real issue... they had to give us ins. info. or could buy the insurance we have at school for about 17 dollars?? to cover camp (no one needed the extra ins., but if i remember right it was reasonable).
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Post by coachbilderback on Apr 24, 2007 18:10:02 GMT -6
We did basically the same stuff, but we also mixed in a punt, pass, and kick competition. This helped us identify our kickers.
To mix it up we did a relay race and they had to lay out and tackle the dummy. They love it.
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