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Post by coachstoll on Jul 11, 2011 6:48:10 GMT -6
Here in Germany our Youth League Season will have it's final game next Weekend. After that the kids get a short break and we want them back at practice after 2 weeks. What we don't want to do is hanging in our basic practice routing for the next 8 month. What we'd like to to is something like an offseason tournament. I thought about Falg Football or 7on7 or something similar. Our Kids are between 15 and 19 years old. It's very important, that everybody get's involved, also the big lineman.
Anything you guys could recommend me? What are you doing in the off-season?
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Post by bluboy on Jul 11, 2011 10:42:19 GMT -6
First off, is there a need to practice every day during this "down time"? When we have a bye week, we do not practice every day. Monday is JV game and varsity watches film and lifts weights. Tuesday entire team is off; coaches meet to work on game plan. Wednesday, short practice(hour and a half to hour 45)offense and some kicking game. Thursday same as Wednesday, only defense. Friday about an hour and a half, but we cover both offense and defense. Saturday is everyone's day off (bye week), but coaches might have to scout.
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Post by coachstoll on Jul 11, 2011 12:13:51 GMT -6
Well, this is about Off-Season, and here in Germany we only practice two or three times a week, no matter if it's season or not.
How is your practice plan at off-season? Are you doing football drills all through off-season?
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Post by 3rdandlong on Jul 11, 2011 12:40:50 GMT -6
If the season just ended, give them some more time off than just two weeks. Allow the kids to be kids for a little while even if they want to play basketball or commie kickball, so be it. Even the pros get more time off than that. When you come back hit the weights and hit them hard. It's also important to make sure that a lot of the stuff that is done is fun and not simply drill and kill.
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Post by coachstoll on Jul 11, 2011 14:09:58 GMT -6
It's kind of different here in Germany. When you only practice twice a week you have enough time to be a kid, I think. Two years ago we had about 6 weeks off after the season and we had major problems getting the kids back on track. We had a talk with the team captains and they told us that the off time was to long. When kids get used to hang around at home, playing xbox and all that stuff they tend to stay inactive, even when they attend practice. In that given year it took us 8 weeks (!) to get everybody back on track. The last year we just kept on practicing, but that wasn't good either.
I totaly agree with you that off-season activitie after the season has to be fun and not drill and kill (I like that saying). What I'd like to do is give them two, maybe three weeks off, without any organized activities, and then just have voluntary meeting where you just meet to play, let's say, 7on7 or Flag Football. Let the kids coach themself and make them have fun beeing together as a team. We are not hitting the weights before mid November.
Back to my primary issue. Does anybody have some good ideas to organize such team activities?
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Post by bluboy on Jul 11, 2011 15:20:42 GMT -6
Once our season ends, we can only have our kids weight train and do speed/agility stuff. With this said, our kids lift M-W-F during the off-season and run when the weather allows. A large number of our kids are involved in spring sports; only a small number are in the weight room. We can not do anything where we use a football or any pads until "the summer recess".
Once school ends, we could have them practice in pads, but we don't; they lift, run, etc M-W-F. At the start of the summer they weight train and work on football skills. We take part in some 7on7 tournaments. After our camp (in July) we focus more on training and a little less on football skills.
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Post by onelooneyzeta on Jul 11, 2011 16:00:46 GMT -6
I think 7on7 would be great in your predictamnet. Let the lineman get out there with the skill kids. They are always wanting to catch the ball.
I think you organize them into teams that would be competitive and 'fair.' Get them to create some simple playbooks, using your team terminology. Teach them the passing game. Let them coach and even officiate it. They would get into it. Keeps them involved and keeps a football in their hand.
It would take some work on your part setting it up and planning it out to make sure it ran smoothly. I think it would be great for a couple months. Even plan your strength and conditioning around it.
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Post by 3rdandlong on Jul 12, 2011 9:56:29 GMT -6
This is one of my favorites. Scatter some footballs throughout the field. Put a shopping cart or some form of a basket on one end of the field. Blow a whistle and whoever is able to run the football and drop it in the basket gets some kind of reward. It sounds real simple, but this gets absolutely nuts. Talk about some crazy rugby like scrums that go on during this drill. It's even better when this is done in the rain!
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Post by windigo on Jul 12, 2011 11:48:43 GMT -6
NCAA 12 is out today. That is always good to get the comrades back in swing.
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Post by Fridge on Jul 21, 2011 2:49:03 GMT -6
What we do is:
* get them two weeks off (our guys already moan during the first week, that it is boring)
* we´ll start our athletic-drills during summer holidays. It´s just teaching the basics, getting them ready for the pre-season
* we´ll have some position clinics in preparation for the election team tryouts
* after the summer holiday we want to have two friendly games, so "game-week" preparation starts again
* after that we´ll have 2-4 weeks until the election team tournament, so we´ll do some position stuff and some "Ultimate Football" tournament. Seniors get to draft their team and then we´ll have a 3-4 week tournament. We also teach those drills we do at our first testing
* We´ll have 2.5 weeks off during autumn holidays, then start the 2012 season with a team and a parents meeting and our first testing of the season
* In November we´ll start athletics (and rules in our theory lessons) and begin installing football plays in January ending that period with our 6-day preseason camp during easter holidays.
That´s our calendar...
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Post by coachstoll on Jul 21, 2011 10:17:55 GMT -6
I really like your plan Fridge and I like to copy some things for our off-season program. I do have some questions:
1. athletic drill means running on movement drills? No ball included?
2. what are you electing at your try-outs and your tournament?
3. no football specific drills till January?
4. How often do you guys have practice during the week?
Thanks for your response!
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Post by Fridge on Jul 22, 2011 6:19:48 GMT -6
1.) Athletic drills means no footballs included, right. During the winter session there will be more and more football-related drills, like agility drills with a ball high and tight. But there won´t be football plays.
2a.) election team means the "Green Machine" U19 election team. Coaches of that election team publish drills, which we do to prepare our guys.
2b.) The Draft is just a fun thing. Every senior gets his ultimate-football team. They do a list with all players on the team in an order. Those lists will NEVER be published, so if there is one kid always at the end of the lists, he´ll never know. Then we pick like an offline NFL Fantasy Draft. The senior player with the best attendance gets the first pick, we delete that guy in every other list. Then #2 picks, and so on. Then those teams will play for 2 weeks against every other team. At the end one team wins the Ultimate Football Tomahawk League. There´s no price, just fun. But give them something to compete, and they´ll be happy.
3.) it´s a "jein" in German. We´ll implement football drills over the weeks, but most of practice time will still be athletics. We don´t have a football field (not even grass) to practice during the week, so we practice in the track and field stadium, on the straights and behind the soccer goals. There´s almost no possibility to do special football stuff. Okay, we du fundamentals like Snapping, Meshing the handoff, Reading the D-End... practicing Double-Team Blocks, etc... but it´s very little time.
4.) Practice will be:
NOV-DEC: Mon (rules), Wed/Fri (athletic-drills)
JAN-MAR: Mon (playbook & video), WED (athletic-drills), SAT/SUN (playbook, than football drills & plays, than video session)
Ending this phase with our 6day PreSeasonCamp. After the easter holidays we´ll stay Mon/Wed/Fri for the rest of the season... (No Fridays during first 4 weeks of summer holidays)
So it is:
Autumn: 6h/week
Winter: 12-14h/week
Spring/Summer: 6h/week
not including online-video analysis and their time in the gym.
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Post by coachstoll on Jul 24, 2011 13:48:03 GMT -6
Good to know that other coaches from our league are active at the huye board, too. Thanks for dropping some information.
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