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Post by Victor on Jan 13, 2019 9:38:57 GMT -6
About 18 months ago (sort of), I posted about football clinics here in the soccer's land. However, due to money ratio differences (4 br r$ to 1 us $) and being still a third world country, for now it is really hard to pay the expenses for a single coach.
Therefore, after stepping down as HC to health problems (stomach, stress, hair falling down), I will have time to read, translate and edit the material to publish to my website (he was dead the whole year because I was working on two different cities and finishing my degree).
The whole idea was simple essays/blog posts telling how to start a football program, how to run a x offense, y offense, defensively too. Here most of scenarios the coaches know almost nothing. They try to emulate what they see and gather random drills, mostly without any teaching technnique. We deal with young adults practicing 3x a week on best scenarios.
I feel that your stories could help a ton, we have between 120 to 150 amateur teams all around the country. We are the third biggest market, any coach with youth experencie and that knows how to manage people can make good competitive teams on the national scenario. I hope within two years bring at least a group of coaches.
This place helped me a ton to evolve as a coach, I wanna help others down here to achieve the same.
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Post by chi5hi on Jan 13, 2019 9:54:07 GMT -6
I love your dedication. I wish you the best of luck.
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Post by somecoach on Jan 13, 2019 20:39:03 GMT -6
Great to hear coach! Can't wait to see what the future brings!
... as for the clinics, have you ever thought of doing an online clinic?, maybe have an American coach "call in" on a live stream and someone translate for him?
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Post by Victor on Jan 13, 2019 21:22:04 GMT -6
I think I wasn't clear, tried to write on a passenger's seat while the car was moving. Not that easy for me lol.
I am asking if somebody wanna help writing football 101 based on your experiences. Example:
How to run a basic wing-t offense without talented players
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Post by Victor on Jan 13, 2019 23:21:30 GMT -6
I think I wasn't clear, tried to write on a passenger's seat while the car was moving. Not that easy for me lol. I am asking if somebody wanna help writing football 101 based on your experiences. Example: How to run a basic wing-t offense without talented players Don't do that. Just put the information out there. Let them figure out what does or doesn't work for their situation. Talent is relative to different areas. Don't dummy it down for them. Let them draw their conclusions. You have no idea how low football IQ is here. |
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Post by joris85 on Jan 13, 2019 23:53:21 GMT -6
Coming from Europe, I get where Victor is trying to get at. In fact, I've been considering more or less doing the same thing, but that was back when I didn't realize how much I didn't know, while still knowing a whole lot more than the average coach in Europe. Also, what you're mentioning was true for me as well: being on this forum increased my football IQ tremendously. I not only learned what I was looking for, I also learned football items I didn't know they were a thing at all and I wouldn't have ever known if I wouldn't have frequented this forum. Here is what I suggest: there is a lot of information out there, but it's hard for your fellow coaches to know where to look for what they need. Instead of repackaging everything, you could be a starting point for them to know where to get what information. You could for instance say that for zoneblocking, you should check this out: coachgrabowski.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/the-mother-load-of-zone-running-game-resources/For power, check coachbdud 's blog For Wing-T, check out bucksweep.com. Flexbonenation and life is football blog for flexbone offense Airraid? Smartfootball.com and coachhoover will be a good place to start, along with coach mckie's podcast. QB fundamentals? @darinslack and his crew will help you out. OL play? Lecharles Bentley and coolclinic are fantastic resources. Anything football? make sure you're on coachhuey.com. If you make it 101, issue is that they will only learn the basics and think they have "arrived". Swimming to stay alive on this website helped me to learn a whole lot more than just the basics, as well as understanding that there's so much more to learn. If your fellow coaches then want to learn something specific, you could lead them to the source, IF they ask for it. I don't care how low the Football IQ is. When you teach, I love the saying "assume they know nothing, but also that they're not stupid" |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2019 13:17:43 GMT -6
Good luck with this, coach! It's great to hear about someone trying to grow this game elsewhere.
If you can do some videos (a phone camera works fine for this stuff) that would probably help. It's usually much easier to show something visually than to try to describe it, especially when you have to translate to another language. People who make their money in media and communication have a saying: "video is king."
I'd be willing to help write some basic stuff if you like, but you'd have to translate it. One thing to consider is that while you're dealing with older athletes, the type of situation you're in will have much more in common with youth football clubs in the USA.
You may want to take a look at people who produce high quality materials targeted at the youth market (people like Dave Cisar, Clark Wilkins, Jack Gregory, etc.) for ideas. You can check the Youth section on this board for more guidance and check other forums that are more "youth-specific" for ideas. There are reasons that many good youth football programs are based around gap schemes and use wingbacks (Single Wing, Wing-T, Double Wing) and play very simple defenses.
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Post by Victor on Jan 14, 2019 13:35:15 GMT -6
Good luck with this, coach! It's great to hear about someone trying to grow this game elsewhere. If you can do some videos (a phone camera works fine for this stuff) that would probably help. It's usually much easier to show something visually than to try to describe it, especially when you have to translate to another language. People who make their money in media and communication have a saying: "video is king." I'd be willing to help write some basic stuff if you like, but you'd have to translate it. One thing to consider is that while you're dealing with older athletes, the type of situation you're in will have much more in common with youth football clubs in the USA. You may want to take a look at people who produce high quality materials targeted at the youth market (people like Dave Cisar, Clark Wilkins, Jack Gregory, etc.) for ideas. You can check the Youth section on this board for more guidance and check other forums that are more "youth-specific" for ideas. There are reasons that many good youth football programs are based around gap schemes and use wingbacks (Single Wing, Wing-T, Double Wing) and play very simple defenses. I say youth in terms to make it basic. But not THAT basic, here we suffer of trying to emulate what they see on tv without any base. I would appreciate a lot if you could help me. |
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Post by Enrico B. on Jan 15, 2019 4:23:02 GMT -6
Hi Victor,
from what I know, there are various US coaches and players who have been on Brazilian teams. I would suggest to reach out to them and ask them if they're willing to help you with that. Since they've experienced what it's like to coach/play in Brazil, they might have some interesting ideas.
Another road you could take is asking coaches who coach European teams, as I think they go through the same difficulties you're facing in your country (2-3 practices a week, players who are also working/studying/raising families, etc.).
If you need any help in reaching out to people, don't hesitate to send me a PM.
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Post by Victor on Jan 15, 2019 8:44:05 GMT -6
Hi Victor, from what I know, there are various US coaches and players who have been on Brazilian teams. I would suggest to reach out to them and ask them if they're willing to help you with that. Since they've experienced what it's like to coach/play in Brazil, they might have some interesting ideas. Another road you could take is asking coaches who coach European teams, as I think they go through the same difficulties you're facing in your country (2-3 practices a week, players who are also working/studying/raising families, etc.). If you need any help in reaching out to people, don't hesitate to send me a PM. Thank you for the support but it is not what I am trying to do. I see that youth/middle school/small hs ball is not distance for what happens here. Coaches, even americans arent doing a great job without big time money behind. Sharing and translating experiences from america could help brazilians with ideas. Judging the feedback I would have to, again, scavenge within here to come up with solutions like I did when I was coaching |
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Post by bobgoodman on Jan 15, 2019 19:48:58 GMT -6
Thank you for the support but it is not what I am trying to do. I see that youth/middle school/small hs ball is not distance for what happens here. Coaches, even americans arent doing a great job without big time money behind. Sharing and translating experiences from america could help brazilians with ideas. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you wrote, but I'm guessing that what you're saying is that you want to boost spectator interest in American football in Brazil. There are countries where certain sports have lots of participation but little spectation, & vice versa. In the USA since the 19th Century, soccer's been a big participant sport, but only at certain times & places a big spectator sport, while American football's always been a bigger spectator than participant sport. It's hard to convert one to the other, and when it comes to team sports (and even some individual sports) one gets up to a high degree of competition only where there is spectator interest. (For another example, see table tennis and badminton, comparing the Far East to elsewhere.) You will develop better coaching once you have enough people who don't (still) play the game watching games. |
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Post by Victor on Jan 15, 2019 19:58:36 GMT -6
Thank you for the support but it is not what I am trying to do. I see that youth/middle school/small hs ball is not distance for what happens here. Coaches, even americans arent doing a great job without big time money behind. Sharing and translating experiences from america could help brazilians with ideas. Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you wrote, but I'm guessing that what you're saying is that you want to boost spectator interest in American football in Brazil. There are countries where certain sports have lots of participation but little spectation, & vice versa. In the USA since the 19th Century, soccer's been a big participant sport, but only at certain times & places a big spectator sport, while American football's always been a bigger spectator than participant sport. It's hard to convert one to the other, and when it comes to team sports (and even some individual sports) one gets up to a high degree of competition only where there is spectator interest. (For another example, see table tennis and badminton, comparing the Far East to elsewhere.) You will develop better coaching once you have enough people who don't (still) play the game watching games. Nope, just asking for the coaches who had experienced tough environments to share how they did it cause it is tough to coach here. The NFL is coming within a few years, dont need help on that |
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Post by Enrico B. on Jan 16, 2019 13:04:58 GMT -6
Hi Victor, let me know if some of the articles you can find here or here might be what you're looking for.
If not, just let us know what you would like to write about in your blog's first five articles: narrowing down the topics might make it easy for the coaches to give you some help.
Hope it helps!
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Post by Victor on Jan 16, 2019 15:22:16 GMT -6
Thanks, would be more like: How to practice with few coaches; A flexible system that can be installed within a month less dependable of talents; How to develop raw players. Something aim on that direction I already have one www.gridiron.com.br |
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Post by bobgoodman on Jan 16, 2019 19:50:14 GMT -6
Thanks, would be more like: How to practice with few coaches; A flexible system that can be installed within a month less dependable of talents; How to develop raw players. Something aim on that direction I already have one www.gridiron.com.brIn that case, I'd recommend DumCoach.com , because it's about coaching children's football. Children's football has the above characteristics, but in addition the players are children. |
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