Installing Today’s Hybrid Pistol Offense Run & Pass from Top to Bottom
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If you have 3 a days (or even 2 a days) what do you do as far as practice schedule for those days?
We basically mimicked our regular season practice schedule and just did it 3 times a day, woking on different things during the different periods. We got a lot done, but the players seemed to get weary of the same old routine.
1: Stretch
2: Individual
3: tackling circuit
4: inside drill
5: outside drill
6: Special team
7: 7 on 7
8: Special teams 2
9: Team period
10. Conditioning
This is basically the format we follow during the season, and it has worked in keeping us organized. But, doing the same thing over and over, 3 times a day just seemed monotonus.
Can any share what they do during camp that may be different? We have separate offense and defensive practices at the same time, so we dont need to force everything into one day (both offense and defense I mean).
Coach D
Philly suburb HS
"The only players I have hurt with my words are ones who have an inflated opinion on their ability" - Bill Parcells
The only "different" approach that I've coached in basically works like this...assuming 4.5 hours--i'll just use 1:00-5:30 to put times to it.
1:00-1:45--extended individual or small group practice (runningbacks with qb's for instance)
1:45-2:30--extended individual time for another group (linemen, possibly)
2:30-3:00--break
3:00-3:30--film and chalk-talk
3:30-5:30--"regular" practice schedule
I really like this because we get to run a ton of individual reps and can put whatever groups together that we wanted. It was a necessity because we had tons of schedule issues with our coaching staff because their jobs.
Ryan Kelly
Offensive Coordinator
Austin High School
Austin, MN
There is nothing that will show a man's true character like the 2 yard line.
Usually just "shells" (helmets and shoulder pads)--sometimes we would mix it up--especially with the Line and with Defensive individuals. I think this approach kept kids from burning out as well. It let us really drill certain positions as well--we ran option so our QB's were there nearly every offensive individual session--they were there with backs, receivers, linebackers, defensive backs. They got a TON of reps.
Ryan Kelly
Offensive Coordinator
Austin High School
Austin, MN
There is nothing that will show a man's true character like the 2 yard line.
We like to go pretty heavy one session, lots of contact and drill work, and more mental in the second session, extra time on team etc. We will stress that we want perfect technique and everyone going EXACTLY where they are supposed to go in the light sesion and stress cracking heads in the contact session. We've done full contact both sessions before, but have had very mixed results, generally 1 decent and one average at best practice, sometimes 2 average or below practices as the kids will save themselves for the 2nd session.
We've gone away to camp for the first week and we will have 3 practices every day. We do a morning and evening practice in full pads and an afternoon practice in helmet and shoulder pads or just T-shirt and shorts. We also plan in a lot of meeting time. As we are away from home staying in dorms it is important to keep the kids busy, too much time on their hands only leads to problems. We also invite a speaker each night - an alumnus, a successful person from the community, etc. The common thread to the speakers is success through setting a goal and working hard.