voslos
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Post by voslos on Jan 19, 2007 2:30:59 GMT -6
I just read Rainer Maten's book Successful Coaching. In this book he talks about "the Games Approach" of coaching different sports. I also purchased Alan Launden's book Play Practice that talks about the same issue. Basically what I took from it is when coaching different sports they do not believe in the traditional approaches of coaching. Instead they believe in a teaching environment that most realistically resembles games.
We all do this as coaches with 7 on 7, inside run ect. I'm looking for more ways of teaching the "games approach" The one idea I came up with is using the Curl Arrow game to teach the concept. For each completion on offense we will award the offense say 1 point. For each turnover forced by the defense we will give them 2 points. You could set it up with down and distance and reward points for gaining first downs ect. We will limit the game to 10-15 plays. The game is close to the actual game and will teach my QB his basic reads while also teaching him to take what the defense gives him. Towards the end of the game the defense might be behind and forced to gamble a little more. You can set up the parameters of the game to change the difficulty/outcomes you want to see.
I'm not sure if I explained this very well but I'm wondering if there are any other "games concepts" that coaches are using out there to teach the kids.
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Post by tog on Jan 19, 2007 10:09:24 GMT -6
I just read Rainer Maten's book Successful Coaching. In this book he talks about "the Games Approach" of coaching different sports. I also purchased Alan Launden's book Play Practice that talks about the same issue. Basically what I took from it is when coaching different sports they do not believe in the traditional approaches of coaching. Instead they believe in a teaching environment that most realistically resembles games. We all do this as coaches with 7 on 7, inside run ect. I'm looking for more ways of teaching the "games approach" The one idea I came up with is using the Curl Arrow game to teach the concept. For each completion on offense we will award the offense say 1 point. For each turnover forced by the defense we will give them 2 points. You could set it up with down and distance and reward points for gaining first downs ect. We will limit the game to 10-15 plays. The game is close to the actual game and will teach my QB his basic reads while also teaching him to take what the defense gives him. Towards the end of the game the defense might be behind and forced to gamble a little more. You can set up the parameters of the game to change the difficulty/outcomes you want to see. I'm not sure if I explained this very well but I'm wondering if there are any other "games concepts" that coaches are using out there to teach the kids. we try to teach things in game situations as much as possible we do break it into smaller chunks at times for building block purposes of learning but even through out offseason we treat everything we do as 4 quarters 4 stages of offseason 4 stages of each offseason workout we WILL WIN THE 4TH Quarter |
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Post by okpowerspread on Jan 19, 2007 10:48:06 GMT -6
What we do is try to practice more game like situations. Our big day for offensive practice is Tuesday. On that day we will focus primarily on 1st & 10 plays and basically just general offense. On Wed., which is a defensive focus, we will only get about 45 mins of offense. During this, we will split up and work 7 on 7 3rd & long situations for about 15 mins. We will set up the chains and let them actually visualize where we need to get to. This also allows the O-Line some individual time. Then we come together and work team situations such as 3rd and short and 3rd and medium and we will run or pass. We will do this for about 15 mins as well. Then we move to the redzone and work there all the way to short yardage goalline for 10 mins. Then we turn around and work 2 min offense for as long as we have left in our practice session.
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Post by fbcoach33 on Jan 20, 2007 16:56:56 GMT -6
One thing we do during our offensive team is we run our plays up and down the feild for period, we snap the ball were the play ends up, hash etc, and then call the plays as we would in a game, rather than coming back and snapping he ball from the same spot, think its helped our kids get a feel for what we want to do going up and down the feild and how we want to group certain plays in order. We still have a long and short yardage portion but we addded this in a few years back and I believe it has helped, not to mention you dont tear that one spot up on your feild as much.
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Post by CoachJohnsonMN on Jan 21, 2007 9:54:19 GMT -6
We do the same thing as fbcoach33. It is only a 10-minute period on Tuesday & Wednesday. In the end-of-the-season meetings, almost every player listed "Drive-the-Field" as their favorite drill. Most also listed it under their most productive drill.
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