Post by coachcb on May 5, 2019 10:55:18 GMT -6
I get bored with EDD stuff as well but there are drills that just flat out get the job done. Every day, the backs do a "ball check drill" where I make them line up and work on swapping the ball from one arm to another while myself and another coach walk down the line and try to strip it. It gets redundant but the kids will start carrying the ball like a loaf of bread and coughing it as soon as we try to move to another more "fun" ball security drill (i.e. a gauntlet of some kind).
The same goes for our "Who Has The Ball?" Wing-T fake drill. The QBs and RBs go through all of our Wing-T series footwork (A LOT of DHO Counter/Sally XX, Belly Sweep, Down Pitch) and the QB decides who gets the ball and has the option of keeping it himself. As such, the kids have to go through the drill like they're getting the ball and have to run with a proper pad level through the LOS regardless. If we stray away from that drill, fakes start going to crap because the kids lose focus and it stops being muscle memory.
If you want to feel true boredom, try coaching track... Good Lord, our hurdlers have done the same two drills every single day just to get their damn lead leg to punch over the hurdle, instead of jumping over it. Just when we think we have it fixed and ditch the drills, they go back to their old habits. Or having a javelin thrower you've been coaching for three years still fail to extend and plant his heel on his final step so they have to do 25-50 reps in a drill emphasizing it before they can actually throw. Or (the worst) a discus thrower you've had for two years who still needs to adjust his final step/turn by six inches so he's not launching the discus into the net every throw...
The same goes for our "Who Has The Ball?" Wing-T fake drill. The QBs and RBs go through all of our Wing-T series footwork (A LOT of DHO Counter/Sally XX, Belly Sweep, Down Pitch) and the QB decides who gets the ball and has the option of keeping it himself. As such, the kids have to go through the drill like they're getting the ball and have to run with a proper pad level through the LOS regardless. If we stray away from that drill, fakes start going to crap because the kids lose focus and it stops being muscle memory.
If you want to feel true boredom, try coaching track... Good Lord, our hurdlers have done the same two drills every single day just to get their damn lead leg to punch over the hurdle, instead of jumping over it. Just when we think we have it fixed and ditch the drills, they go back to their old habits. Or having a javelin thrower you've been coaching for three years still fail to extend and plant his heel on his final step so they have to do 25-50 reps in a drill emphasizing it before they can actually throw. Or (the worst) a discus thrower you've had for two years who still needs to adjust his final step/turn by six inches so he's not launching the discus into the net every throw...