jman
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Post by jman on Jan 27, 2006 22:55:36 GMT -6
How common are athletic periods? We have on for football only, all year long. It seems that it can be a tremendous advantage.
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Post by toprowguy on Jan 28, 2006 8:58:01 GMT -6
Never heard of them until I got to this forum.
In Jersery we have gym class were we play hand ball or mat ball.
Not really worth it.
Wosh we had an athletic period.
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Post by phantom on Jan 28, 2006 9:26:23 GMT -6
We don't have one in Virginia.
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Post by coachhortman on Jan 28, 2006 10:10:00 GMT -6
Here in Louisiana, we have a athletic period that we can do what we need to. It is a physical education period in which you decide how you want to spend that period. Most schools during football season have that period at the end of the day where they can start practice right before the end of school. At Evangel we have it first period where we can get our weightlifting and running done during the season and we do our football after school. It helps this way because the kids do not have to worry about conditioning during football practice. During the offseason, we still do our running and lifting where our kids can particpate in other sports.
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NCcoach
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Post by NCcoach on Jan 28, 2006 10:20:18 GMT -6
We have an athletic class the 2nd semester. We use it for weight training and speed training. However, I guess we could do some 7 on 7 stuff and put in plays (no contact) if we so choose.
This is becoming more common in NC although most schools do not call it football class for political reasons. I have a friend that has an "athletic class" this semester in his school and it was suppose to be used for football, BUT it is a baseball school and they were only able to get 3 football players in the class. The tail wags the dog in that school. I guess everything depends on the administration. Do they fully support football or not?
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Post by ocinaz on Jan 28, 2006 13:20:03 GMT -6
At our school in Arizona, we tried to have an "Athletic Period" it was the last period of the day, it became a wasteland where a lot of kids who weren't playing football were thrown inot class. Did away with it, instead we now have a zero hour "weightlifting class" 95 percent are football players with a couple of other athletes who play other varsity sports. Kind of like the athletice perios, ealy on gave us a chance at doing a lot of formation, film, and terminology work.
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Post by tog on Jan 28, 2006 16:43:47 GMT -6
how about
"kinda" athletic periods? where you at least get to lift the kids during the school day?
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Post by coachbilderback on Jan 28, 2006 16:57:47 GMT -6
I coach in Mississippi and I would say about 85-90% of our schools have an athletic period. We meet everyday during 7th period. During the season we lift, meet, start practice then. I can't imagine not having an athletic period. Now the schools that are on block schedule have it really good. They get there athletes for 90 minutes everyday. Imagine what you could get done in 90 minutes everyday.
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Post by rhscat on Jan 28, 2006 20:03:56 GMT -6
NCCoach, In Nc It is not allowed by the nchsaa to have any skill development(ie 7 on 7, running of plays), during the school hour. I am sure that alot of schools would love to have an athletic period in NC, but if it is used for anything but weight training or saq drills it is Illegal. That is probably why schools dont call it football class, not political reasons
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ci
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Post by ci on Jan 28, 2006 21:37:31 GMT -6
We have athletic weight training classes that you MUST be an athlete to be enrolled. I teach at a rather large high school and myself or an assistant see our kids every day. Both sexes are in class. Your grade is determined on improvement on 5 lifts. We four days a week. It has been a godsend to our football program and athletics in general. If an athlete is kicked off a sport or quits, he's in swimming class the next day. It is a high level class, with high expectations. Failure to dress two times results in a failure for the semester. I am not kicking kids off for not lifting before or after school..our kids are strong and have bought into this concept. We started these classes 18 years ago and our coaches really like them. With so many sports, we don't customize sport specific lifts. Like anything else, the classes are only good if you have good people backing them & running the class.
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NCcoach
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Post by NCcoach on Jan 28, 2006 21:53:10 GMT -6
They don't play basketball in PE?  The situation at our school is we need to get much stronger, and we need to build confidence, so anything other than weight training and speed development is not in the lesson plan. However, you know football class goes on in a few places. I'd like to see the rule that says you can play basketball, and teach basketball skills in PE but not play any form of football and teach football skills in PE. This has been a debate on other message boards. As far as I know it is not against the rules. But then again, I've been wrong before  . Seriously, I would like to know for sure. I'm the type of coach that would take full advantage of what is allowed, but I want to do things the right way too. |
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. Seriously, I would like to know for sure. I'm the type of coach that would take full advantage of what is allowed, but I want to do things the right way too.