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Post by NC1974 on Jan 4, 2017 10:53:41 GMT -6
For you guys who play music at practice or in weight room, do you have any rules about language?
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Post by realdawg on Jan 4, 2017 11:01:05 GMT -6
Yea. No bad words. Nothing degrading to women or mentioning drugs and alcohol. Our HC controls the music and plays it off of his phone. Has to download the clean versions of a lot of songs. And some songs are just instrumentals or beats. The kids still enjoy it. Main thing I think is for you to control it not the kids. And we have a rule that if we become more concerned with singing or dancing along with the song than lifting or practicing the music goes off.
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Post by fantom on Jan 4, 2017 11:12:30 GMT -6
Yea. No bad words. Nothing degrading to women or mentioning drugs and alcohol. Our HC controls the music and plays it off of his phone. Has to download the clean versions of a lot of songs. And some songs are just instrumentals or beats. The kids still enjoy it. Main thing I think is for you to control it not the kids. And we have a rule that if we become more concerned with singing or dancing along with the song than lifting or practicing the music goes off. I agree with this but I'll add that we should remember that the music is for the kids not the coaches. They may not share the coach's love for classic country or 80's hair bands.
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Post by **** on Jan 4, 2017 11:16:29 GMT -6
No cuss words. Other than that the coaches pick songs/playlist off what the kids like.
Had a senior last year who we trusted enough to make a cd for games/practice. He did a pretty good job.
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Post by spos21ram on Jan 4, 2017 11:19:23 GMT -6
For practice coaches always pick the music and has to be edited. Weight room is a little more lienient.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 4, 2017 11:23:27 GMT -6
Fantom-that's a good point. And mostly we play music that is popular with the kids. Occasionally however we will break out a country music day or a Michael Jackson day or a hard rock day. And all the kids generally enjoy the change up.
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Post by fantom on Jan 4, 2017 11:37:54 GMT -6
Fantom-that's a good point. And mostly we play music that is popular with the kids. Occasionally however we will break out a country music day or a Michael Jackson day or a hard rock day. And all the kids generally enjoy the change up. Which also brings up a point: For God's sake don't use the same play list every day.
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Post by poundtherock1 on Jan 4, 2017 12:01:25 GMT -6
We have two playlists that we use for the weight room, each one has about 50 songs on it so it isn't too repetitive. We let the kids tell us what songs are popular right now and put the clean versions on shuffle, and loud. I don't really give a rip if they're rapping along or dancing a bit between sets. It keeps the energy high, and if they associate fun with the weight room, that's a good thing.
On Fridays, we listen to country.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 4, 2017 12:05:27 GMT -6
the problem I have with the kids music is that even when edited is still alot of times talking about selling drugs, using drugs, gangs, degrading women, etc. I just had a former player arrested for a murder that was gang related. I would like to think I wasn't contributing to that as much as possible.
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Post by wolverine55 on Jan 4, 2017 12:33:45 GMT -6
I hate music during practice, but I'm by far in the minority on our team. Our HC does the playlist and while it is normally at least based on what the kids enjoy, it's also primarily instrumentals only so we don't have to worry about bad lyrics sneaking in.
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Post by groundchuck on Jan 4, 2017 12:48:10 GMT -6
We have always had music in the weight room and usually it is a mix I make off my iPhone. I don't want to deal with the language or edited version of the same song that really isn't all that edited anyway.
Practice is the same thing when we have had music.
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Post by ballcoach13 on Jan 4, 2017 13:16:25 GMT -6
I have the kids complete and then update their and their parents contact info each year. On the form, I have them list five songs they would like to listen to in the weight room. I then go check the lyrics and compile a list of songs and post it. Then I let them bring them to me to put on iPhone so I don't have to pay for all the songs. If the lyrics are bad, you can usually find the instrumental version and they will like the beat. Play it loud so they can't talk and get off task. I also agree about choosing music they like. At my Leadership Council's first meeting, they fired me from playing my music!!
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Post by larrymoe on Jan 4, 2017 13:21:52 GMT -6
We don't do practice just simply because we don't have the resources to do it. Moving forward I would not be against it at a new place.
In the weight room we just generally plugged my phone in and listened to Mudvayne radio. Lot of metal, especially Mudvayne and Tool. Probably too much swearing, but in the end it just becomes background noise anyway.
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Post by bluboy on Jan 4, 2017 17:29:27 GMT -6
We play music in the weight room, in the locker room (during the week and before/after game), and on the field during pregame. Our district has a policy on what can/can't be played. Two years ago we caught crap from the AD who heard unacceptable music while standing outside the locker room. We select what gets played in the weight room and during pregame. The kids pick what gets played in the locker room. Since we coaches have to monitor the locker room any time there are players in it, we hear/know what's being played If their selection is unacceptable, there is no music for at least a week. The second time the music in unacceptable, there is a physical punishment.
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Post by blb on Jan 4, 2017 17:46:07 GMT -6
Should be "school appropriate" since it's a school activity.
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 4, 2017 17:46:51 GMT -6
Probably too much swearing, but in the end it just becomes background noise anyway. You should get a pass for playing Tool.
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Post by bluboy on Jan 4, 2017 17:49:08 GMT -6
You and I know that(we're adults). As you well know, teenagers don't always understand.
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Post by Inthesticks on Jan 5, 2017 11:39:10 GMT -6
Anybody have a clean playlist? ??
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Post by mnike23 on Jan 5, 2017 12:52:36 GMT -6
pandora has a clean version. my school system cpu, when i hit pandora it will only play the clean site. if i log in on my phone and use the school wifi, again only clean versions of any of it. makes things easy. i normally use the gangster weight room station or the weight room hard rock station. but then kids start dancing and i turn it off. hate that part.. at practice we have instrumentals pretty much on the whole practice. except for teach time in group. rest it is on and loud. dancing=updowns, more dancing=full length gassers. happens 1 or 2 times then they want to beat the kid up. lol
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Post by shocktroop34 on Jan 5, 2017 13:39:53 GMT -6
Metal Monday Hip Hop Tuesday Classic Rock Wednesday Throwback(90's) Thursday
We don't lift on Friday's, but if we did, we would play both "Country and Western" (for all you Blues Brothers fans).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2017 14:29:33 GMT -6
We let the kids pick the music, anything goes as long as it's clean. And at the risk of sounding like an old guy, the music they like is absolutely terrible. I mean, unlistenable. Get off my lawn.
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Post by Stangs13065 on Jan 5, 2017 17:07:27 GMT -6
Never had music at practice. We didn't have the resources, and other teams practice at the same time in close proximity. It would always be blasting in the weight room, though. I'm not super picky with music, but High School kids these days listen to the most awful, unlistenable music that there is. It's a sad excuse for music. And before I sound like too much like a 60 year old grump, I should point out that I just recently finished playing.
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Post by coachfloyd on Jan 5, 2017 17:13:15 GMT -6
Talking over the music was a pain in the butt for me too.
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Post by flacoach10 on Jan 9, 2017 11:47:22 GMT -6
We have used it at practice and in the weight room but not every day, we change it up. HC controls and has pandora going with no explicit content. It does get annoying to talk over sometimes, have to keep it at a reasonable level, helps to have a manager that can turn it off during certain teaching periods.
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Post by virgilromer on Jan 9, 2017 12:50:22 GMT -6
I've largely been responsible for the strength & conditioning at my coaching stops, and on a normal lifting day we usually play clean music at a decent volume that the kids can move to and whatnot between sets to keep focused. However, on a special lifting day such as a max out/special workout, I'll pump that volume up to get the kids more amped and play some rap bangers (got this idea from some Russian training psychology text, lol).
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Post by utchuckd on Jan 10, 2017 8:35:21 GMT -6
but then kids start dancing and i turn it off. hate that part.. at practice we have instrumentals pretty much on the whole practice. except for teach time in group. rest it is on and loud. dancing=updowns, more dancing=full length gassers. happens 1 or 2 times then they want to beat the kid up. lol Oof. The right Prince song comes on and they'd be running because of me dancing.
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Post by rosey65 on Jan 12, 2017 12:26:52 GMT -6
We have 2 different Cd's we (the youngest coach on staff) put together. All rap songs, all clean versions. It hasnt been a problem. The songs get repetitive pretty quick, but they never seem to get in the way. best part...HC made the 1st song on each track be Frank Sinatra. Funniest thing is all of our inner-city kids, by the 3rd week of practice, belting out New York New York at the top of their lungs
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Post by coachbdud on Jan 12, 2017 13:37:07 GMT -6
in the stadium, no bad words just because we are right up against houses, and the campus is so open you can hear it everywhere
in the weight room, we can get away with bad words because it is just in there and you cant hear it elsewhere
I control the music, comes from my pandora on my ipad the kids dont get to touch it, they can request a genre but we just let it play, no skipping
Music can help you lift, science tells us this but i dont want them more focused on picking a song than picking a weight
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Post by lmorris on Jan 12, 2017 14:14:37 GMT -6
pandora has a clean version. my school system cpu, when i hit pandora it will only play the clean site. if i log in on my phone and use the school wifi, again only clean versions of any of it. makes things easy. i normally use the gangster weight room station or the weight room hard rock station. but then kids start dancing and i turn it off. hate that part.. at practice we have instrumentals pretty much on the whole practice. except for teach time in group. rest it is on and loud. dancing=updowns, more dancing=full length gassers. happens 1 or 2 times then they want to beat the kid up. lol This.....inside pandora you can go to settings and turn off explicit lyrics....sometimes a song will come through but not very often. I personally like emenem radio, plays a lot of upbeat songs and every so often you will look up and kids are dancing between sets. but when you use this you can pick any kind of music no need for a playlist, come across a song you don't like....skip it not sure how many skips you get per station, but if you run out just make a new station.
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