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Post by Defcord on Mar 12, 2010 19:53:59 GMT -6
I have never seen anyone injured from Bear Crawls. When I was at one high school our "reminder" coach was a former Notre Dame basketball player and said they had to do "backwards bear crawls" so he had our kids do them up a hill. The kids hated them!!! and were very well reminded.
I love them and still do them.
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Post by 5straight on Mar 14, 2010 16:03:37 GMT -6
Pointless drill other than if used for punishment cuz they suck !!
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Post by coachk12 on Mar 18, 2010 21:29:38 GMT -6
We bearcrawl, but never more than 7-10 yards at a time.
As a player, our coach routinely had us bearcrawl 50 yards for conditioning. I had more shoulder problems doing this than pitching 30+ baseball games a season.
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Post by coachk98 on Mar 21, 2010 7:38:47 GMT -6
Maybe they should ban the 3 point stance ?
Oh, thats right they want to.
Hey Sh*t happens, its a physical game, prepare your kids for the physicality & violence of the actual game. we as coaches need to choose activities that are safe enough yet challenging enough to prep their young bodies.
If we go soft, so will our football players.
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Post by coachdbs on Mar 23, 2010 8:45:41 GMT -6
Pointless drill other than if used for punishment cuz they suck !! Coach Dos at College of the Canyons would disagree. Check out the following video:
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Post by gdoggwr on Mar 24, 2010 9:27:33 GMT -6
I coach Dline, and we do bearcrawls. never more than 10 yards, and I prefer a 5 yard burst more. I always finish it with a "get up and run" phase, usually a 5yd crawl to an angle tackle, or 5yd crawl to a pursuit angle. I do this because sometimes... the offensive line cuts, or double teams, etc and the dline hits the ground. I he just hits the ground and flops around like a dying fish he can't play dline. he needs to be able to move and come to his feet on the run, so we practice it. IMO I'd be a fool not to practice it as some point. they're not an every day drill by any means, but there is a place for them.
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Post by davechode on Mar 26, 2010 21:32:38 GMT -6
If you are doing them for S&C, get hold of a Prowler (or make one yourself) and you get all the benefits without the impact on the joints.
Beware, kids will puke/black out if you're not careful.
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