frisbee first:
we practiced for 5 days over spring break. 7v7 every day, usually on small fields. I kept it as a 'roll out the balls' practice, and was graced with some returning alums. We had a couple of U of O players and a couple of U of O b teamers... and the kids benefitted. I was a little dissapointed that there weren't more attendees.
Things to work on:
Zone: Teaching zone to new players is a challenge. It's easy to teach the static positions, but to teach zone defense against early season and new high school players is a challenge. Turnovers are cheap, and the players get stuck in the static zone positions, without learning to move to follow the disc because of the inabillity of players to complete multiple passes. I'm going to start next week, but with the following plan. I'll use a 'ball' either a softball or a kickball (doesn't matter) and the rule that it can be rolled or thrown but that it's not a turnover if it hits the ground. The goal is to teach proper recover and movement of the positions. It's limited by the inabillity to 'huck' but that ends up being a plus in some ways.
Warm up and drills: I'm doing a really basic warm up right now. Run a lap of the fields (about 8 minutes) then a modified line drill. 6 lines with 5 or so kids in each line. you cut out 20 yds, then check back. Thrower gets to throw 2 or three throws. Then the lines, which are in pairs, face each other, and the oposing cutter cuts jab step and down line. It's also used replicating front of stack cutting, and the cutter cuts 3 steps then cross.
New Players: Lots of dutch and mini. Dutch is a box of varying size, teams of 3 or 4 or 5, and complete 5 passes for a point. When I split varsity/JV, it's 10 passes for a point.
Breaks: I don't do breaks. Practices are 100 minutes long, and breaks are times to throw back and forth.
Conditioning: I push off day conditioning. I have too much to teach in 3 days a week. Kids who want to make varsity are told to run on off days. Right now I want them doing 2 30 minute runs. We'll move to shorter harder stuff.
Personal:
spring break '09 wooohhoooo.
Monday: Skate ski one hour, run 45 minutes with track team, play ultimate 1 hour.
Tuesday: Bike 1/2 hour, tempo run (10 easy, 15 hard, 10 easy), frisbee
Wednesday: Bike 21 miles, run easy 40 minutes, frisbee 1 hour
Thursday: (Rest) Lazy frisbee (for me) 1 hour
Friday: Ski 80 minutes, run 20 minutes, 1.5 hours vigorous ultimate
Saturday: 2 hour ski, 1 hour bike, 30 minutes weights
Sunday: 50 minute run, 1 hour bike
MONDAY REST
5 comments:
But what's...? Oh, you almost got me, you clever dikfor!
Do appreciate the ulti content tho...
fyi, the blog is my workout log, searchable and reviewable by date and workout.
so i'm going to skip the usual beratement...
seriously: the use of the ball to teach zone to new players is money. so thanks for noting it.
using ball to teach zone is def money.
question: will your team ever participate in westerns? is that something your program aspires to? or is it all about oregon states? thoughts on the upa's restructuring plans for youth for the next 5 years?
benny: pretty typical here is tuesdays practice. 35 mph winds and 40 degrees. playing ductch drill where every tipped 2 foot pass throw was blown 30 yard out of bounds.
i WISH I could say that throwing in such conditions makes us better, but it just hampers turnout, and confidence.
sadly, we had decent weather over spring break, but kids go to cabo or hawaii or wherever, so i had only about 14 per practice, and it was more a sample of A and B, rather than a dedicated A.
i now have access to a field house, and starting next winter, i'll bring a varsity team through winter drills. This team i'll try to bring to westerns. But in getting ready for westerns play, we usually play our first tournament with a several month handicap on the valley teams.
So, yes, one day we will go there. But right now, even the prospect of a spring reign is daunting, as we're still struggling in conditions...
I think maybe it would be good to just 'go' to westerns one year, and hopefully that would serve the same purpose of lifting the team to build for next year...
Sounds good.
Keep fighting the good fight.
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