1. Find a good club with experienced coaches It is important to have the right person to assist you correctly from the beginning. Every club will have people who can teach you the elementary steps. There will also be some old master hands, who can take you further as you take the sport more seriously.   […]

By changing up who gets the ball this tackling drill is easy to make fun. As a coach it’s important to show players that they can have fun while still working on the essentials of the drill and working their fundamentals. The sideline drill is a great drill that combines change of direction with tackling […]

Be a smart consumer. Make sure what you’re being taught, no matter who is teaching it, matches up with what great players do. Every week I receive an email that links to pieces of instructional videos for fastpitch softball. And almost every week I end up shaking my head at what I see in them […]

I’ve spent the past several years working with NCAA D1 swim programs, first at Florida Gulf Coast University and now at Florida State University. At the beginning of each season, when I start my first round of individual sessions with people, one of the first things I ask them is the following: “What’s your mental […]

Rocket Sweep is blocked the same way as Jet, but the only difference is that the motion is into the backfield and the ball is tossed out to the motioning back. On the youth football level defenses will blitz frequently, especially on short and long down and distances. Blitzing is an effect tactic in youth […]

Not all teens are created equal. How you approach training should depend on what stage of puberty you are currently in. If you’re a teen looking to build muscle odds are you face some unique challenges and circumstances. It is likely that you lack complete control over your daily eating, and you may not always have access […]

We talk about being loyal not just to your team but to your family, your coach, the game and about being loyal in the school and classroom. Sure, they teach kids the bones of baseball: how to swing a bat, secure a pop fly, steal third. But Little League coaches do so much more than explain the […]

Importantly, if coaches and parents can agree on the destination being Inspired Players then they can start to collaborate when the player is not thriving. Christian Lavers, president of the ECNL used the term: “Collaboration is a force multiplier” recently on a 3four3 podcast interview. While Christian was referencing the collaborative efforts amongst coaches in the […]

All of us experience periods of slow or seemingly non-existent improvement from time to time. It is a normal part of getting better. At times you may feel like you are the worst swimmer on your team. You think that there must be something wrong with you. You are putting in the work just like they […]

The vice drill is a great way to teach players about leverage and working with their teammates to make a tackle. The ability to keep leverage and make a tackle on a ball carrier can be one of the most difficult aspects of tackling. By using the vice drill players will be able to develop […]