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Post by coachtwy on Jul 29, 2013 0:07:30 GMT -6
So half my team this year will be new to tackle football. I'm thinking of using a buddy system the first week where a veteran player buddies up with a different 1st year guy every day to help him get a better start. Have you ever done this or heard of any effective buddy systems?
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Post by coachphillip on Jul 29, 2013 0:49:06 GMT -6
During first week of summer the four varsity captains are assigned a group of roughly ten freshmen. They are responsible for teaching these freshmen the proper stretching routine, the core lifts, and the run through of how we go about workouts in the summer. After that week, if a freshman is having a rough time with things we talk to their varsity brother. It's definitely strengthened the program. Kids aren't intimidated by their varsity counterparts and the older guys try to lift up their younger brothers.
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Post by bobgoodman on Jul 29, 2013 23:40:18 GMT -6
So half my team this year will be new to tackle football. I'm thinking of using a buddy system the first week where a veteran player buddies up with a different 1st year guy every day to help him get a better start. Have you ever done this or heard of any effective buddy systems? I haven't heard of it in football, but in elementary school teaching the system where most of the teaching is done by older students supervising the younger ones directly is called the monitorial system, which had long success in general teaching of children. If you had no adult coaches, that's how the kids would organize themselves anyway. Are you a HC? If so, since you're new, how are you going to know which players to trust as buddies? I don't know what your ratio of veterans to rookies is, so whether you'd even have a choice in that regard. If you'd been with the team the previous season, then you'd have a good idea of who you'd want as monitors.
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Post by davecisar on Aug 12, 2013 15:55:07 GMT -6
We ALWAYS do that Part of our Team Chemistry and Character Dev Program Every day is question fo rhe day= every player better know his partners answer to the question: WHo is your favorite College football team? What food does your mom make that you hate?
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