Bonzi Buddy has set up a training camp in West Minnisota inorder to train the next generation of people into making a good football star, there are plenty of good names too watch out for however we are unsure if any will make it to the big stage, we got names like Warren Peace a very athletic quarterback, as well as other quarterbacks like Radon Randell, Joe Kingsman, and a robot named "Throw-Bot" on the defensive side of the ball we got a few big names names like Toby Determinded, Willie Leak, and launchpad mcquack, and Lugolor Galugor and many other cool individuals. Buddy has et up many camps and believes that it would not be surprising to see one of those names hit the ISFL in 13 seasons if they keep at it, many other to be seen as well but buddy believes these 8->10 year old kids could be the future of the ISFL
With Teemo Swift’s second year on the team he’s taken a bigger role in the community. Last year he attended charity events but didn’t host anything of his own. This season was different though with the hosting of a youth flag football minicamp. The event was open to middle-school aged boys and girls in the Minneapolis area. The minicamp started with an opportunity for the kids and family members to meet players and organization members from the Grey Ducks over a BBQ. Following the meet and great the kids were gathered for a discussion on putting in work. Putting in the time now was emphasized in putting yourself in the best position you can to make it to where you want to go. Following the conversation, a mock scouting combine was held that was loosely based on the real ISFL Combine. While the combine was taking place, minicamp organizers divided the kids into teams and placed their free equipment for the event in the locker rooms. Once the mock combine was complete kids were sent to their respective team areas to check out the team names and uniforms that were given for free. Each team had a Grey Ducks player who coached them through the event and gave their own experience throughout the day. Overall, the event had a great turnout and multiple players enjoyed the day having a positive impact on the community.
230ish words Prompt Wrote:Your team has tasked your player with the unique opportunity of holding a training camp for kids of all ages. In this training camp, your goal is to share your knowledge of what it takes to be a star football player and the mechanics behind doing just that while also holding their interest and keeping the peace. For this PT, describe how your player would accomplish this goal and the sort of practice drill(s) they’d employ to teach about the position they play. I tihnk the most important thing to being a star player is combining the luck of being born with good physical gifts and opportunity and then leveraging those with determination and focus. I don't know how to teach luck, so I guess I'd focus on determination. For a true all ages (usually something like 5-18) camps, though, it's hard to have a single activity that works for everyone to both show what you're trying to teach and being interesting to that large of a range. So, I think I'd combine one underlying theme of focus/determination across different activities which are more along the lines of age-appropriate position drills with a focus on endurance or repetitions. My thought is to measure what the kids are doing in the drills in two ways: first, the core thing they're doing (number of situps, laps run, whatever) but then also the time put in. I'd consider it a success if I can get someone to work harder each day even if (or especially if) their counts go down. I could maybe even be tricky with it if I had only older kids - do things like swap in mislabeled weights or repaint the track - to artificially make them think they're not doing as well and then reveal at the end as part of trying to point out that internal motivation is what's going to keep you going. For younger kids, though, I definitely would be concerned that it could be the wrong message, so I'm not quite sure how to make it work there. Draft Steal (retired S35 CB) - Profile/Update | Wiki Troen Egghands (retired S22 DE) - Profile | Update | Wiki
Alright, in this PT i’m not going to pretend like I’m some hot shot brand new head coach that knows all about how to get the best out of players. Truth is I am nowhere close to that. However, I am a really really good babysitter when it comes to rookies. I’m really good at building chemistry between the guys, making them feel like they’re at home and they’re welcome in both the locker room and in the huddle. So I’ll focus on that, since football is more than a sport, it’s a family. So we start with some healthy introductions, assuming the guys don’t know each other, and they’ll need to know (or at least know of) everyone’s names. We then move on to some friendly competitions. Depending on what we have in the locker room and on the field, they can be wide ranging. From playing Ping Pong, and have a tournament with a fake WWE inspired belt to the winner, from playing pool and smoking cigars like you’re in a 1980s mob movie and you just ordered a hit on an opposing mob member named johnny who was eating into your territory. The point is, you want to get the guys comfortable enough with each other so they’ll have trust on the field and they’ll be friends off of it too. It creates a great locker room and an even better football team.
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Aleksandr Milescu was asked this season to help host the annual kids training camp at the facility in london. Most kids had lined up to see life as a linebacker, and even a few who wanted to tool around with big hits against the pads as a D line player. Only a few seemed interested in secondary, but Milescu was still happy to have a few. London, however, had given Milescu no help or guidance as what to do with these kids. There was no qb or wr to scrimmage against, so instead the safety took any kids interested in the secondary over to where the kids practicing and learning wide receiver were hanging out and getting reps. The would be receivers would run a basic route, turn towards the incoming ball, and BOOM, there was a one of Milescu's kids. He left it up to the individual. Some kids went for the int, other to bat down the pass, and others still simply laid out the receiver. This plan only worked a few times before some of the London coaching staff came out and told Milescu theyd find him someone to throw balls and set up some footwork drills for the kids instead of just trolling the receivers. Training went on as one would normally expect after that, but no doubt the kids learned the real lessons of playing at safety that day.
‘The Akinfenwa school for kids who want to be beasts but arent yet beasts’ is not a catchy name. But it is a very effective school on teaching the next generation of Fullbacks. The first thing that needs to be taught to these up and coming prospects is the mental side of the game. Fullback isnt a position that most people grow up aspiring to be and as such there are a lot of kids very new to the position and what it entails. While many of them have experience at RB or OL, it’s the combination of both attitudes that it really what Adebayo tries to drill into the kids. You have to be wanting to pancake a defender at the same time as receiving a handoff and taking it to the house.
Once the lesson section is over, it’s onto the drills. The first drill is sprinting up and down the pitch after finishing a plate full of steak. If you want to be great, you have to be constantly eating and ready to go at any time. Next the kids are put through a WWE style wrestling match, if they can throw a defender out of the stadium, he wont be a problem for your QB for the rest of the game. The after eating some pancakes, proper pancake form is taught, including the correct level of taunting afterwards to not get a penalty, but still disrupt your opponents game. |
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