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Post by gobigred on May 22, 2012 22:41:26 GMT -6
I'm looking to start practice differently this year from the old - in lines or position groups. Trying to break things up. Any ideas you have or currently use?
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Post by JVD on May 23, 2012 5:53:46 GMT -6
There is a team just east of us that has "Midnight Madness."
They hold their first practice starting at 12:01 on the first day you can have practice. It gets a lot of hype. Pumps the kids up.
Is that what you meant? Or did you mean specificly at practice.
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Post by playsmart on May 23, 2012 21:32:46 GMT -6
One idea I ran across once was to practice your emergency field goal just before team flex time. The idea was to have your normnal pre-practice. When you want to start your team flex time, a coach spots the ball and blows the wristle and yells your code word for when there is 15 secede left, no timeouts and you need a fieldgoal. Everyone involved in the field goal runs straight to the ball and gets setup and performs the FG. Everyone not involved with the FG gets lined up. Everything is timed and everyone needs to be correctly lined up and the FG needs to be kicked before the coach ends his count down. I can't remember with the time limit was or what the penalty was if they didn't complete it.
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Post by gobigred on May 24, 2012 0:03:32 GMT -6
Thank you jvd - I didn't clarifly very well. When the horn sounds, what are some things you do first. We've done individual position group warm up, get into 10 lines (warmup), etc. Looking for something new that still gets the blood flowing but is valuable.
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Post by groundchuck on May 24, 2012 3:35:20 GMT -6
Yeah we just go from pre practice into flex lines, then competitive edge drills like a short Okie or edge players doing 1on1s. This gets the competitive juices flowing.
I really like the FG idea. That's a good idea.
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Post by coachfd on May 24, 2012 5:43:22 GMT -6
We start every practice with a live situation: 1st & Goal, 3rd and Short, Backed-Up, 2-Pt Conversion, etc. We put the first-team Offense vs the first-team defense, and we put something on it for a wager (i.e.-extra sprints, a gasser while the other group gets water, the losing team has to carry in the winner's pads after practice, loser sings the alma mater at team dinner, etc.)
We started it as a Monday-only thing, but the kids got into it and we had such a great practice, that we did it again the next day, and it became a staple for the season. Every day, we were able to get off to a great start as far as intensity goes, and setting the tone for the entire practice.
The kids starting getting into it, and would chirp at each other during the school day in passing.
"We're gonna kick your butt today!" "You can have a million plays; you aren't going to score on us." etc. It made the whole team atmosphere much more competitve, and a lot more fun.
Plus, it allowed us to work on game-situations, with pressure to execute. Great preparation.
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zeroand24
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The soft don't win championships
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Post by zeroand24 on May 24, 2012 8:02:35 GMT -6
We started every contact practice with team board drills. Immediately after flex we lined everyone up and got after it. That means everyone was split up in position groups so Linemen on linemen, receivers on receivers, and backs on backs. We aren't even a base blocking team but had to find a controlled way to start practice physically. I got this idea from Rick Darlington at Apopka, HS in Fl and they are kinda good.
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Post by chunkitaround on May 24, 2012 8:02:55 GMT -6
Start practice with this...
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Post by blackknight on Jun 5, 2012 12:30:28 GMT -6
We added music this Spring during our Individual Warm-up time and it was a hit!
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Post by olsenray61 on Jun 8, 2012 5:32:34 GMT -6
We do a dynamic strech and have our QB's call cadence. Not only do we get more cadence practice but work on catching the ball, coaches throw to RB and Rec.
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Post by 36mbcoach on Jun 8, 2012 12:56:09 GMT -6
after we do our dynamic warmup followed by a brief static stretch...
we do conditioning right away...
i find this to help wake the kids up a bit...
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Post by tigeroption on Jun 13, 2012 12:57:06 GMT -6
Looking for something similar I guess so I'll ask my question in this thread. We had been an pre-practice, dynamic warm-up into static stretching team and I've decided to eliminate static stretching, kids don't seem to get much out of it anyway and it has become a time when coaches stand around and talk and players chit chat.
I guess first what specific dynamic stretches to you guys do?
and second what are some other ideas to get into practice after dynamic stretch?
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