choprip
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Post by choprip on Jun 17, 2020 6:11:30 GMT -6
For those of you who utilize pre-practice:
How long is it?
What is your emphasis? O/D or specials with leftovers doing O/D?
Is this also when kids get taped?
Thanks
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Post by blb on Jun 17, 2020 6:45:39 GMT -6
When kids and coaches are on the field doing football skills-drills, it's practice, not "Pre-Practice."
We started each with a 15-minute Specialty period which emphasized passing or kicking (generally alternated from one day to next).
"EVERYBODY's a specialist," meaning entire team and staff were on field and involved. When "skill" guys were passing-receiving OL was working on Pass Pro. If it was kicking day, those who weren't snappers, holders, kickers, or returners were with a coach working on pass rush and other defensive techniques.
This period was highly organized. If it was sloppy or grabass rest of practice was likely to be the same.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2020 6:58:13 GMT -6
The gap between when Assistant coaches and player get out to the field and the HC gets outs to practice, 6-7 minutes pending. We are suppose to be doing drills, but if I get caught in the office, or helping with equipment. So no real consistency in anything regarding “pre-practice”
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Post by larrymoe on Jun 17, 2020 7:00:09 GMT -6
When kids and coaches are on the field doing football skills-drills, it's practice, not "Pre-Practice." Pretty much what I was going to say. If you have a plan and expect them to do specific things and maybe even coach, that's practice. You can say you only practice for X number of hours when you have a 20 minute structured "pre practice". We let kids warm up throwing arms, kicking, snapping, other crap while everyone got out to the field. There wasn't a structure. Some days the kids organized it and it looked awesome. Some days, some people would wonder how we won a game. |
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Post by Chris Clement on Jun 18, 2020 17:52:35 GMT -6
It’s as long as they want, it’s literally the time “before practice.” Usually the first few days of camp my vet 22 y/o RBs are out there a solid 45 minutes early slowly warming up their elderly bodies while the rookies race out at the last second and then by day 4 or 5 the rookies are out there early too.
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DLgaDC
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Post by DLgaDC on Jun 18, 2020 18:47:33 GMT -6
15 minutes. Snappers are working long and short. Returners are rotating catching punts and KOs. The skill guys who can’t catch a kick are throwing and catching tennis balls or catching off the jugs. Linemen are working extra drills or walking through plays.
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Post by carookie on Jun 18, 2020 21:28:54 GMT -6
Im not going to get into a battle of semantics, most places i have been at that utilize pre-practice, consider practice to begin when all players are mandated to be working.
Thus, pre practice is a scheduled period of time for a smaller group of players to work on a specific/unique skillset that is not really connected to other techniques they will be working on in group sessions.
This usually encompasses specialists and the traditional ‘early outs’ crew. Centers snapping, long snappers, holders, kickers, return guys, maybe qbs taking snaps.
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Post by fantom on Jun 23, 2020 11:31:24 GMT -6
Im not going to get into a battle of semantics, most places i have been at that utilize pre-practice, consider practice to begin when all players are mandated to be working. Thus, pre practice is a scheduled period of time for a smaller group of players to work on a specific/unique skillset that is not really connected to other techniques they will be working on in group sessions. This usually encompasses specialists and the traditional ‘early outs’ crew. Centers snapping, long snappers, holders, kickers, return guys, maybe qbs taking snaps. It's not just semantics. I agree with you about what pre-practice is. We've done it that way everywhere I've been. Others, though, bring everybody out early to work with their position coaches. I agree with those who consider that "practice". The first time I heard of this was at a college clinic/practice. The coach had talked about how short their practices were. We all wanted to see how they did it because of course we'd all love shorter practices. Turned out that they did it with semantics. Sure the part that they termed "practice" was less that 90 minutes but they didn't count pre-practice, stretching/warmups, special teams, and conditioning as part of "practice". I think that some of us are playing that same game. |
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Post by wingtol on Jun 23, 2020 14:04:25 GMT -6
Im not going to get into a battle of semantics, most places i have been at that utilize pre-practice, consider practice to begin when all players are mandated to be working. Thus, pre practice is a scheduled period of time for a smaller group of players to work on a specific/unique skillset that is not really connected to other techniques they will be working on in group sessions. This usually encompasses specialists and the traditional ‘early outs’ crew. Centers snapping, long snappers, holders, kickers, return guys, maybe qbs taking snaps. It's not just semantics. I agree with you about what pre-practice is. We've done it that way everywhere I've been. Others, though, bring everybody out early to work with their position coaches. I agree with those who consider that "practice". The first time I heard of this was at a college clinic/practice. The coach had talked about how short their practices were. We all wanted to see how they did it because of course we'd all love shorter practices. Turned out that they did it with semantics. Sure the part that they termed "practice" was less that 90 minutes but they didn't count pre-practice, stretching/warmups, special teams, and conditioning as part of "practice". I think that some of us are playing that same game. I still feel like "pre-practice" is just a way colleges got away with having more time on the field under their limitations. "Oh it's not practice, it's pre-practice and totally voluntary..wink....wink..." |
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