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Post by tog on Aug 30, 2005 11:54:23 GMT -6
any of you guys have some good "motivation" drills to get people to go hard?
mainly, something that sucks to do, that would make them rather go hard in practice?
up downs, and rolling work to some degree, but I am looking for another little something
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Post by phantom on Aug 30, 2005 13:35:52 GMT -6
This is an offensive drill but I imagine you could use it with other positions. It's actually a very good drill for teaching effort and I used to use it early in 2-a-days as a base drill. It's very demanding and time-consuming, though, so I only do it when I think I need it now.
Set up three bags, the bigger and heavier the better, in a line 10 yards apart slightly offset. In other words, the line will diagonal out. Player aligns in a stance in front of the first bag. On command, he fires out and drives the bag. When he's driven it to the second bag, blow a whistle and he rolls out, fires into and drives. When he reaches the third bag, blow the whistle and he drives the third bag. This time he drives it as far as you think he needs to.
I've never had to do this drill more than once a season.
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Post by smd on Aug 30, 2005 14:02:38 GMT -6
when i grade the film from friday nights game, i count the number of loafs that we had as a team. that following monday we will push the 2 man sled 20 yards per person for every loaf. we rotate kids for every 20 yards. last year we had 9 loafs that first game. that monday, each kid pushed that sled for 180 yards. we didn't have another loaf for the rest of the year.
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Post by brophy on Aug 31, 2005 6:02:25 GMT -6
We've had tremendous success this year with letting the kids dictate how much "conditioning" they'll do. Of course, this will require a half way decent upper classman leadership.....The first part of camp (first two weeks), if ANYONE is late to practice the ENTIRE team runs so many sprints for however many minutes those kids were late. You create the peer culture that doesn't want to accept excuses because they are the ones paying for the lack of discipline. So instead of the COACHES running around hounding kids to 'do what we tell them', it's the players that do it....it's THEIR team, not ours so much, because THEY are the ones that have to play it on Friday nights. The worst thing about football ISN'T letting your coach down, ISN'T letting your parents down, IT IS worrying that the guy you line up with doesn't trust you or respect that YOU WILL DO YOUR PART.
Also, on defense, we have done in the past, have a "Game Breaker" Quota where we had to come up with a certain amount of ints, fumble recoveries, strips, or sacks in a practice (with Team) or we made the difference up in conditioning (110 yard sprints). It worked wonders for our practice hustle and made the kids feel confident that they COULD reach those lofty goals.
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