Archive | April, 2009

What has Happened to the Fundamentals?

Calling all coaches… is it me or are the players today lacking a lot of the fundamentals? Watching kids catch and throw the wrong way is becoming the norm. I remember my oldest daughter’s lacrosse team being very smooth, catching and throwing at ease when they were at the Midget level. Now my youngest is [...]

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Trying to Find More Coaches

My coaching resources are drying up. I’ve been fortunate that over 40 coaches have contributed their content. Many of these were coaches I had worked with or friends of friends who believed in the idea of a free resource for coaches. I do have 3-4 coaches ready to go…just a matter of actually doing the [...]

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Rundown on Summer Lacrosse Tourneys- Boys

For all of these, please check the dates. For more information on college recruiting, see the following Kudda videos on recruiting

Rutgers MVP- June 13-15th… Run by Rutgers University is a team camp. Players stay at one of the many campuses at Rutgers in AC dorms. Teams check in on Friday w/ their first game that [...]

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  • DEFINING COACHING LEADERSHIP
    The definition of coaching leadership will vary depending on who you talk to.  The definition for me is in the words.  Coaching leadership at the youth level is the ability to coach young leaders.  We are coaching football, but the reality of the situation is the percentage of players who will go onto the college [...] […]
  • PRACTICE ORGANIZATION
    I have always divided practices up into individual periods, group periods and team periods. Individual periods have players working with their own positional groups.   During these periods our players would be working on techniques and skills specific to their respective positions. Group periods can either remain with players on the same side of the football […]

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  • What Many Athletes & Coaches Are Missing: Purpose Driven Practices & Training July 31, 2010
    Throughout my sports & athletic development career I’ve consistently witnessed team practices, individual workouts with trainers, fitness classes, etc. conducted with no theme or objective. Often the athlete or student will leave the workout or practice unfulfilled & bored (just went through the motions), frustrated (experienced little to no improvem […]
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  • Lazing Tasing Days of Baseball July 31, 2010
    When 17-year-old Steve Consalvi ran onto the field during the 8th inning of a Major League Baseball game in Philadelphia http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5165782 he never would have imagined the material he was about to give to every sports talk radio host across the country. No one could have been happier than this group of broadcasters. [...] […]
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  • "What are your goals for a child playing sports?" July 31, 2010
    Peter Barston is back with another question. Peter is the remarkable teen from Darien, Connecticut who enlightened us last winter with an unusual research project. Peter, assisted by his dad, decided he had to get to the bottom of this question: Why do kids play sports? So he put together a survey and passed it out to hundreds of kid players in his hometown. […]
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  • "An unlikely source of hope in Newark, NJ" July 31, 2010
    Inspiring coach. Wonderful story.This post originally published at http://www.youthsportsparents.blogspot.com […]
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