bdawgs
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Post by bdawgs on Jun 6, 2008 13:23:01 GMT -6
Our organization is holding their fist summer camp for youth football. I am partially resonsible for organizing and running the 5 day long camp for ages 7 and 8 year olds. We have 2 and 1/2 hours for the first 4 days and 4 hours on the 5th day. I have never been involved in organizing a camp, especially for this age group, and would appreciate any help and suggestions as far as agenda. By the way...it is a No Pads/No Contact camp....Thanks in advance!!
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Post by bulldogoption on Jun 6, 2008 19:36:58 GMT -6
Have some type of competition on the last day....like a 7 on 7 tournament. This will help keep them coming back.
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Post by 1bignasty on Jun 6, 2008 20:04:13 GMT -6
7 on 7 for 7 year olds  That should be fun to watch. |
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trojan
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Post by trojan on Jun 9, 2008 17:06:55 GMT -6
Our camp is four days and is open to grades K-8. The high school kids help the coaches run it all.
Day 1: registration and team organization. Kids line up by the grade that they will enter in the fall, then are put on teams. There are four teams for the K-4th graders, with an equal number of kids from each grade level on each team. Six "big kid" teams divided the same way.
-we test them in the 40 (on grass), on an obstacle course, and the shuttle run. Additionally they go for pass accuracy, pass distance, punt distance, and kick distance. Winner in each of these events for each grade level gets a t-shirt.
Day 2: Offensive individual instruction, group instruction, and then a couple Wing-T plays.
-Air football (kinda like two-hand touch) in a round robin fashion. A couple games.
Day 3: basically just like Day 2, with more instruction and more air football games.
Day 4: Last air football games. The two best records compete in the "championship" game.
T-shirts for winning air football teams (little kids and big kids) and t-shirts for winners of the punt/pass/kick competitions.
Everybody seems to love it. You could modify it for your 7/8 year olds.
Good luck!
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Post by rideanddecide on Jun 10, 2008 6:30:40 GMT -6
Here's what we have done to cover 2. 5 hours.
10 minutes Warm up (4-6 grade plays catch with HS kids, 7/8 grade warms up with position specific drills)
5 minutes Daily Lesson
50 minutes Offense (indy, run a few plays, etc.. The 4-6 grade rotate through all positions, 7-8 focus on one position)
10 minutes Tackling Progression as a whole camp
40 minutes defense (just like offense except no plays)
30 minutes of touch football
There are some quick water breaks scheduled throughout as well
On the last day we have our "carnival". Longest kick, farthest pass, fastest through an obstacle course, etc...
HS kids coach the 4-6 grade camp, HS coaches coach the 7/8 camp. If we have a HS kid that tends to get excited we put him with his position coach and he works with the 7/8 grade kids.
Everyone gets a camp t-shirt.
We hand out hustle awards on the final day. Every coach picks a camper that they felt was coachable and worked hard and we award him a t-shirt or other prize.
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Post by bulldogoption on Jun 14, 2008 6:23:15 GMT -6
7 on 7 for 7 year olds That should be fun to watch. It looks as if you're a new member..........you may want to check these board "rules" out. You seem to be a smart coach and the board needs knowledge. IMO, the above post serves no purpose, except to basically say, I know more than the person posting it...or maybe it was written to say 7/8 year olds can't play 7 on 7. Maybe something like I don't think 7/8 years olds are capable of running a 7 on 7 tournament...they're not physically ready.....then stating your ideas.............I didn't see yours.......that was the original posting question. I'm fine with getting my toes stepped on, it comes with the territory of being a head coach, but contribute at the same time if you could. FWIW....I've realized that I carry a bias with me...i.e. my experiences with schemes, part of the country, school size and years coaching. When I first started posting I carried those with me and my answers reflected them. Then I realized that the other posters were capable of running their own programs and deciphering thru all the varying opinions just fine by themselves. In other words, all I had to do was give them the answers to the questions they asked. Post a question on here, you'll see what I mean.  Seriously, stick with this board, it needs your knowledge, but it also needs your professionalism. Thanks Rules of Engagement on The X's & O's of Football ForumWe feel as though we need a list of ground rules on the board so this does not turn into a football site like so many of the other sites many of us have been in. This is a quality board, at the moment, and we sincerely hope it stays this way.
1. Your offense is not better than anyone else’s. No one else’s is better than yours. What we each run is unique to us and works for us. If you want ideas on adjustments or alternatives ask, if someone wants yours they will do the same. This board is fostered on the foundations of mutual respect. Appreciate the differences we all have, if you can’t, do not be on this site.
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5. If you have an idea, POST IT. Do not be a “lurker”, CONTRIBUTE something. There are no dumb ideas, or dumb questions. Feedback on this forum is always good, it is part of the learning process.
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Post by coachpoe on Jun 14, 2008 19:11:01 GMT -6
Just worked our youth camp, kids entering grades 4-7 just shorts and T-shirts, here is how it worked
6-8 P.M.
6-6:05 Role and Announcements
6:05-6:15 Warm-up
6:15-6:35 Position Group 1 (had 3 position groups for example (OL, RB, and QB/WR 1 day then DL, LB, DB another)
6:35-6:40 Water
6:40-7 Position Group 2
7-7:05 Water
7:05-7:25 Position Group 3
7:25-7:30 Water
7:30-7:55 Kids pick what position they play and spend this time working with that group
7:55-8 Announcements and Dismissal
On the first day we split the kids up into 3 groups (by age, size, etc.) and the kids rotate through each position, so they get to play a little of everything. Then for the final group they pick a position (sometimes we have to give the big kids a nudge to go with the line) and work with them. On the last day we devote the last hour of camp to "hike and go" or air football. Nothing too complicated, we get much more in depth with the middle school camp (kids entering grades 8 and 9) when they can actually put the pads on and have some playing experience in our middle school program.
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Post by coachhortman on Jun 14, 2008 21:47:53 GMT -6
The camp at Evangel is ran pretty much the same way as some have described. We get businesses to help sponsor the costs of the camp. To the coach having his first camp, these are some of the details that you will need to get done before even all the kids arrive.
1. Get camp insurance before all the kids arrive.
2. Paint your fields.
3. Make sure you have enough footballs that will fit younger hands and footballs that will fit middle school hands. Try to number your footballs and assign a coach of that position those footballs so you can get them back after camp to use the following year.
4. Make sure all of your lines are painted or if you are using your practice fields, do like we have done in the past, diesel the lines two or three days before.
5. Since our practice fields are away from our bathrooms we rent portable bathrooms that are close by.
6. We make sure we have a concession stand nearby for parents that are there to watch their kids learn.
7. Make sure you have enough water stations with the jugs filled so noone will dehydrate.
8. Have a fulltime person that does nothing but fill the water jugs up.
9. Get your high school players to help out so as you are teaching , they are your demonstators. Give those high school kids a camp t-shirt for helping.
10. Order t-shirts for the kids. Every kid gets a t-shirt that comes to our camp. Since we have businesses that help sponsor, those that give $500 or more, we give a t-shirt to that business. We also have plenty of advertising with our camp brochures and varsity programs for folks that help pay for the camp. Their name is also announced at all home games.
11. Have a precamp meeting a couple days before the camp to clear the air about assignments of each coach doing his postion.
12. Almost forgot this, order enough cups for the kids to drink out of, we had a local fast food chain buy enough cups in exchange for the advertising that they get on friday nights during the season.
13. Have a backup plan in case of nasty weather. Are you going to have a makeup day or do you let it be known that you will take them to the gym or let it be known that day is lost because of the weather.
14. At the beginning, have everyone sit togther and introduce your staff that will be dong the coaching for the camp.
15. Have your coaches meet after each day to make sure that there were no problems during the camp, if their was a problem, find a way to fix it if possible that day so you can be prepared the next day.
16. Sometimes during the camp we have parents that drop their kids off while they go do whatever they have planned while their child is at camp, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE NUMBER in case of emergency. You never want a injury but sometimes things happen.
17. Personally this is my feeling on a camp for K-5 even though our camp is K-8. Young kids have trouble with their attention span for long periods of time, they get hot and thiristy so you have to keep it fun for them. We never go over 2 hours with them as we hold our camp from 5:30 til 8. The first day it starts at 5 for preregistration. Make sure you are equipped in case you have a lot of walkups which we did last year which was nearly a 100 kids. Be prepared to order extra t-shirts and more concession items.
Last thing coach, if you have any questions at all about the kids camp, feel free to call me @ 318-453-2076. Be glad to help all I can with the information that I have.
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That should be fun to watch.
