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Post by 33coach on Nov 9, 2016 17:58:04 GMT -6
what's 1 change you are going to make to your practice routine for next year?
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Post by groundchuck on Nov 9, 2016 20:49:50 GMT -6
There are a few things on the table but it's early yet. We just got done. Usually I start jotting down ideas/thoughts and ask around at clinics.
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Post by newt21 on Nov 9, 2016 20:54:19 GMT -6
Use our tackling sleds every single day, it was noticeable when we took a day or two off even when we did other tackling drills.
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Post by morris on Nov 9, 2016 21:23:03 GMT -6
How many of those sleds do you guys have?
There are at least two things we are changing 1) higher emphasis on turnovers on both sides of the ball
2) working kickoff return/hands/strange kicks more
Those two things killed us this year.
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Post by utchuckd on Nov 10, 2016 7:50:47 GMT -6
We're talking about taking a day off. We play on Tuesday and are looking at not practicing on Wednesday.
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Post by mnike23 on Nov 10, 2016 8:02:28 GMT -6
buying a tackle tube or 3
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Post by newt21 on Nov 10, 2016 8:04:43 GMT -6
How many of those sleds do you guys have? There are at least two things we are changing 1) higher emphasis on turnovers on both sides of the ball 2) working kickoff return/hands/strange kicks more Those two things killed us this year. 2, have one guy working on tackling to the left, one to the right at the same time and give as much feedback as possible. Best defensive investment we've made in years. You can get a group of 20 players 5+ reps in 5 minutes running it this way, when you only have 2 coaches and 40 players, those reps are gold
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Post by tabs52 on Nov 10, 2016 8:16:54 GMT -6
Incorporating classroom time, looking to add this Monday as a review and install time
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 10, 2016 8:55:16 GMT -6
I've mentioned this already but we are looking at combining JV/frosh practice to increase the quality of coaching our boys are getting.
I'm going to try to sell the HC on rugby rings in the off season, we need another tool to get better at tackling.
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Post by groundchuck on Nov 10, 2016 9:11:37 GMT -6
We have two tackling rings. Great investment.
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Post by ogre5530 on Nov 10, 2016 9:14:05 GMT -6
Practicing at a faster tempo.
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Post by jrk5150 on Nov 10, 2016 12:00:37 GMT -6
Realizing I coach youth, but this seems like a bit of a universal question -
We have to get better on defense, specifically with open field tackling, so I need to find a way to work that into practice. I had a very short roster and was afraid of injury, so we didn't do the hitting we needed to do. At the HS level probably less important to HIT in practice, but at the youth level it's something they need to do more often to get the right skills ingrained.
Ball security drills - I slacked off on it once we hit the regular season and came back to haunt us.
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 10, 2016 12:47:36 GMT -6
We have two tackling rings. Great investment. Saw Army using them to practice cut blocking in pre game, thought that was an awesome adaptation for their purposes. No bueno for HS though.
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Post by 33coach on Nov 10, 2016 12:51:14 GMT -6
We have two tackling rings. Great investment. Saw Army using them to practice cut blocking in pre game, thought that was an awesome adaptation for their purposes. No bueno for HS though. i wish we could cut block... it would make rocket sweep way more effective
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Post by CoachMikeJudy on Nov 10, 2016 12:59:42 GMT -6
Finding a way to eliminate any down time for the JV kids. We coach Var/JV as a staff, and we feel like we don't get them enough team reps. It is my fault as HC and needs to be addressed.
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Post by nstanley on Nov 10, 2016 13:05:15 GMT -6
How many of those sleds do you guys have? There are at least two things we are changing 1) higher emphasis on turnovers on both sides of the ball 2) working kickoff return/hands/strange kicks more Those two things killed us this year. We instituted a "specialties" period during practice this past season around week 5. It has been huge for us. Basically, we have kickers, snappers and QB's work for between 5-7 minutes a day while the rest of the team is either doing a kick-off/punt cover blocking drill or a ball security drill. We've also included a lot of ball security/turnover circuits in our defensive practices. This has been very positive for us this season.
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Post by nstanley on Nov 10, 2016 13:11:22 GMT -6
Incorporating classroom time, looking to add this Monday as a review and install time About week five or so, we started Monday's practice with film and a meeting and cut down on the time on the field. We have a smaller group this year so a lot of our players are getting a ton of time on Fridays and we've used Mondays for more of a mental day. To shorten Monday's meeting, I've gone to creating screencasts on Sundays and sharing them with the kids using the HUDL messaging function. Since most of the kids get the notification and link on their cell phone, they can watch a quick 5-15 minute video without much effort on their part.
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Post by 50slantstrong on Nov 10, 2016 13:19:00 GMT -6
Next year I'm going to have our injured players stay away from our drills. This year the school I coach at has been the walking wounded and I've found injured players cause distractions if they're near the drills. If you're hurt, you're on filming or water duty, or something away from the guys who are suited up. Other than that, I can't think of any way I am planning on "redefining" practice structure that goes beyond being observant of things I wasn't previously observant of or simplifying things I didn't simplify this year. Although when I go to the Glazier Clinics again this winter, I'm sure I'll find something that changes that
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Post by carookie on Nov 10, 2016 14:30:02 GMT -6
Next year I'm going to have our injured players stay away from our drills. This year the school I coach at has been the walking wounded and I've found injured players cause distractions if they're near the drills. If you're hurt, you're on filming or water duty, or something away from the guys who are suited up. One way I have seen this handled very successfully is by having them do physical workouts. Our S&C coach would take the walking wounded and put them through as vigorous a workout that was feasible with their "injury". Treadmill, exercise bike, battle ropes, repetitive light weight lifts, he'd find something that wasn't going to impact (or be impacted by) the injury and work, work, work. This brought an end to a lot of the questionable injuries, kept drills free of distractions, and helped keep those who were injured physically active.
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Post by **** on Nov 10, 2016 14:32:14 GMT -6
Practice onside kicks and onside recovery more often.
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Post by mariner42 on Nov 10, 2016 15:12:50 GMT -6
Next year I'm going to have our injured players stay away from our drills. This year the school I coach at has been the walking wounded and I've found injured players cause distractions if they're near the drills. If you're hurt, you're on filming or water duty, or something away from the guys who are suited up. One way I have seen this handled very successfully is by having them do physical workouts. Our S&C coach would take the walking wounded and put them through as vigorous a workout that was feasible with their "injury". Treadmill, exercise bike, battle ropes, repetitive light weight lifts, he'd find something that wasn't going to impact (or be impacted by) the injury and work, work, work. This brought an end to a lot of the questionable injuries, kept drills free of distractions, and helped keep those who were injured physically active. I need to do this next year. Bringing kettle bells and whatnot down to the field for the wounded.
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Post by agap on Nov 10, 2016 19:03:12 GMT -6
I will be at practice for a different school.
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Post by tabs52 on Nov 11, 2016 7:18:37 GMT -6
One way I have seen this handled very successfully is by having them do physical workouts. Our S&C coach would take the walking wounded and put them through as vigorous a workout that was feasible with their "injury". Treadmill, exercise bike, battle ropes, repetitive light weight lifts, he'd find something that wasn't going to impact (or be impacted by) the injury and work, work, work. This brought an end to a lot of the questionable injuries, kept drills free of distractions, and helped keep those who were injured physically active. I need to do this next year. Bringing kettle bells and whatnot down to the field for the wounded. We got a new trainer thisyear and worked their butts off, and they were not rehabbing with him the were our acting waterboys,
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Post by gibbs72 on Nov 11, 2016 8:32:00 GMT -6
We used the heavier rubber rolling balls (college uses them to work with DL on preventing cut blocks) to practice wrong arming pullers and our DL tackling dive on option offenses. We used it sparingly last year.... will be a major emphasis in drill/ indy time next year.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Nov 11, 2016 8:36:08 GMT -6
I am planning to change completely the flow of practice. Forever, we go kicking... off indy... off groups... off team...kicking...Def indy... def groups... def team... conditioning. We are looking at running the majority of practice like a simulated game. Doing indy for both sides to start on monday and tuesday, then simulated a game. We are gonna script the results so we get everything covered, but no more 30 minutes of kids standing on side watching during team periods. At first this will take a little extra time, but we are hoping it helps with getting kids in field for sp teams, hoping also it helps cut down on the standing around. We plan to do indy at the end on wednesday so that we can fix what we need to based off of what we struggled with in practice. Also plan to end every practice with some kind of end of the game situation. ie hail mary off/def... taking knee, taking safety, 2 minute drill, tight punt, etc....Any thought on how we could make this better would be welcomed.
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Post by tabs52 on Nov 11, 2016 9:30:53 GMT -6
What a great idea, I think this would be great way
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Post by CS on Nov 11, 2016 10:22:44 GMT -6
Our athletic trainer is good about this. However, the ones who really want out of practice now go to a physician and get a "no physical anything" excuse and just waste everyone's time. Gotta love the bus farters
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Post by silkyice on Nov 11, 2016 12:15:26 GMT -6
I am planning to change completely the flow of practice. Forever, we go kicking... off indy... off groups... off team...kicking...Def indy... def groups... def team... conditioning. We are looking at running the majority of practice like a simulated game. Doing indy for both sides to start on monday and tuesday, then simulated a game. We are gonna script the results so we get everything covered, but no more 30 minutes of kids standing on side watching during team periods. At first this will take a little extra time, but we are hoping it helps with getting kids in field for sp teams, hoping also it helps cut down on the standing around. We plan to do indy at the end on wednesday so that we can fix what we need to based off of what we struggled with in practice. Also plan to end every practice with some kind of end of the game situation. ie hail mary off/def... taking knee, taking safety, 2 minute drill, tight punt, etc....Any thought on how we could make this better would be welcomed. I think that is a great idea in theory, but... Games take a long time. During offense we are running 3-4 plays per minute in practice by going against bags and no huddle. A game takes 2- 3 hours for a total of 100-180 plays total. Let's just say that is 2.5 hours for 140 plays. Roughly about normal. You are looking at under one play per minute. Take out halftime (but you still have to have breaks in practice) and you are about exactly 1 play per minute. I am just not sure from an efficiency standpoint that it will turn out like you think. There is a lot of transition time from run a play, now it is 2nd and 5 from the redzone on the left hash. Play over. Run punt team on. Now go defensive situations for 6 plays. Now run kick off on. I sure I am totally off base, but no matter what, it is something to consider.
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Post by cwaltsmith on Nov 11, 2016 13:29:42 GMT -6
Thats the stuff we have to workout. It would be the same as team but just in short spurts and switching which team is out there more... The change over time will be more ... good thoughts
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Post by Yash on Nov 11, 2016 13:48:39 GMT -6
Thats the stuff we have to workout. It would be the same as team but just in short spurts and switching which team is out there more... The change over time will be more ... good thoughts Part of me fears that your team may be very good at transitioning but not very good at execution. This seems like a lot of wasted minutes in practice... much more than the kids standing around during team... If you want the kids to not stand around during team Run 2 scout teams, go half line, do more group work,
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