Post by davecisar on Aug 1, 2008 3:31:09 GMT -6
Kids are visual and seem to learn and remember much better when we associate visual cues to the coaching poitns we are trying to stress. These are some we use for our base offensive stance:
Ballerina- Keep feet straight, no out like a ballerina. Shoulder width apart, not staggered
Outhouse: Imaging using an outhouse that has been in use all day. Imagine you have to go #2 and do NOT want to sit on the seat. You hover just above the seat not quite at parrallel, with elbows on knees, hands to the inside.
Eye-Ball ( given to me by a coach in the crowd at a clinic in Baltmore): Hand is put down where you would imagine your inside eye, eyeball would have fallen had it dropped out of your skull. We are going to pick it up with just our middle 3 fingers touching the ground.
Paper-We want our weight on the balls of the feet. We do not what to be on our tip toes and we dont want to be flat footed. We want just enough room under the heels so just a sheet of paper can be slid on the ground under our feet.
We add each word to the next as we work the player through the progression of getting into a perfect stance.
Ballerina- Keep feet straight, no out like a ballerina. Shoulder width apart, not staggered
Outhouse: Imaging using an outhouse that has been in use all day. Imagine you have to go #2 and do NOT want to sit on the seat. You hover just above the seat not quite at parrallel, with elbows on knees, hands to the inside.
Eye-Ball ( given to me by a coach in the crowd at a clinic in Baltmore): Hand is put down where you would imagine your inside eye, eyeball would have fallen had it dropped out of your skull. We are going to pick it up with just our middle 3 fingers touching the ground.
Paper-We want our weight on the balls of the feet. We do not what to be on our tip toes and we dont want to be flat footed. We want just enough room under the heels so just a sheet of paper can be slid on the ground under our feet.
We add each word to the next as we work the player through the progression of getting into a perfect stance.
