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.
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