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Post by kwhitney on Apr 25, 2008 11:04:51 GMT -6
I saw this post on another site....
What are ways to add game type stress to daily practices these are some examples
I think most of us will agree football is a game of pressure. How well our kids perform under that pressure often determines what side of the scoreboard you end up on. What I'm asking is what drill or concepts do you guys use to create pressure practice situations:
1) my first one is the "POWER HOUR" from Calande in which you run your power play from the 3 yd line against anywhere from 16-22 players
a) reward punishments are in place for failures
2) from Nick Hyder (old Valdosta Coach) I like his "Make 5 or Lose 5": scrimmage situation coming out from the endzone to the 50 and back in
a) each play has to be perfect
b) if offense doesn't gain 5 yds they lose 5 yds
c) stay until you get it done!
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Post by coachplaa on Apr 25, 2008 11:54:14 GMT -6
One thing I've heard at a clinic was USC pumps up music, not to simuate crowd, but rather to create some chaos during practice.
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Post by coachcb on Apr 25, 2008 12:28:36 GMT -6
Here' my best drill with the OL-
-we do a 2-1 drill, working on straight double teams. I good groups of 3 and we work the drill, with one catch; you don't stop until the DL is on his back or driven 5 yards. We go with 2-3 groups of 3 out and they rotate between the OL and DL. It gets frickin nasty; if I don't have one fight break out, than the drill isn't working.
-If the DL quits on me to make the drill easier, I pull them out and make them do push ups the rest of the the time. This only happened once or twice.
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Post by airman on Apr 25, 2008 15:56:51 GMT -6
I like to run a two min. tempo the whole practice. you get more done even if you do not run a two min tempo during a game. I also believe practice needs to be longer then games.
I also like to do this drill. make the offense and defense run from one side of the field to the other. then run a play. this simulates being tired or after a big play. also make the learn to focus on the next play. at first there will be mistakes.
I also believe you condition at the beginning of practice. kids need to learn how to play through being tired, especially on defense.
run to the huddle is another one. say on offense you rip off a 20 yd run. the offense sprints to where the next play is to be run.
one tip here if you are going to go to a no huddle fast paced game. make sure your rb, qb or wr hands the ball to the wr at the end of the play. it promotes good sportsmanship and the officials will spot the ball faster, as they do not need to be chasing balls down.
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Post by davecisar on Apr 26, 2008 8:07:54 GMT -6
One of the guys that coaches with me now played in the NFL for Bill Bellichek . We were looking for ways to create pressure and stress. He said in the middle of practice, maybe in the beggining, middle, towards the end, Bill B would blow his whistle and they would do a 1 vs 1s goal line 'scrimmage" for just 5-10 minutes. Said that they would purposely blow the whistle while the guys were right in the middle of things, then have everyone run full speed to get on the LOS in 15-20 seconds. Kind of a spontaneous competition thing.
We are looking for ways to do this on our youth team and will probably try it.
To put pressure on our kicker in practice, at the end of practice we would line him up and invite all the parents to come down and crowd around just feet from behind the kicking block. We then line all the remaining players across from him and our line, jumping up and down and screaming. Parents yelling, cheering,. If he makes the kick we are done, if he misses the entire team runs a lap.
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Post by cmow5 on Apr 26, 2008 8:59:55 GMT -6
"If he makes the kick we are done, if he misses the entire team runs a lap."
Coach Weis did that at Notre Dames practice. If he makes it they are done if he misses it they run. The kicker missed it. I believe Coach Weis was whispering "Encouraging" words to the kicker. He even called a timeout to "ICE" the kicker. I do this with my semi-pro team now.
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Post by devilsadvocate on Apr 27, 2008 20:56:27 GMT -6
At a school where I coached previously, the HC did something similar to Coach Hyder's "Gain 5 Lose 5" deal. He placed the ball on the goal line coming out. The offense had 10 plays to travel the length of the field. Down and distance rules applied. If they didn't get it in, the entire offense (starters and subs), did running grass drills (run and drop on the whistle) for 200 yards. But that wasn't the end of it. After the penalty, we just reset the ball and did it again. We kept at it until the offense scored at least 3 times. If the offense scored in under 5 plays, the defense had to do the grass drills! To make it somewhat "fair" the defense only had to get two hands on the ball carrier.....The real kicker is that we normally did this on WEDNESDAY!!! I learned that HS kids recovered fairly well during my time at that school. I think the record was 9 series of plays. Whew!! Makes me tired just thinking about it still.
I would be remiss if I didn't mention we were in excellent condition as a football team. I can never remember looking tired in the fourth quarter.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2008 21:27:53 GMT -6
I love the Bellicheck idea of randomly going 1 vs. 1s. I believe Cowher did that in Pittsburgh as well. Coachcb, thanks for sharing that. I may have to steal that and use it this season!!
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