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  1. I did a quick search (no pun) on the web and found some interesting reading at http://www.athleticquickness.com/. Looks like they are trying to sell something, but some of the tabs off of the home page give some discussion on targeting fast twitch muscle fibers through isometric exercises with resistence bands (as opposed to free weights). If nothing else, it is good reading some background info. KBOB
  2. You are more than welcome, CoachingDad. And thanks for the youtube tip. I'll check it out, now that there is a good enough reason for me to go on youtube. I'm not sure about jag1872. Been thinking about speed drills for you. For some reason I keep coming up with martial arts (traditional boxing too). It's not running speed but I would think it is mental quickness coupled with muscle quickness and how to control your body. I'm not coming up with something specific here and this is not a classic home remedy, but a visit to a local M.A. instructor or boxing coach prepared with some targeted questions might net something no one has thought to apply to getting quick in football. And since your son is 'running' fast already, any 'completely different' M.A. or boxing tips/drills might be enough to help him bust through this plateau... Just a thought. KBOB
  3. ...in my Flag Football league, I think the management just wanted to verify that coaches had a valid e-mail address. :-) But seriously, if this type of information was known to be available (and optional) allowing more dads or moms to look it over and become comfortable with it enough to develop their own season plan well in advance of a particular season, I'll bet that not only would the number of volunteer head coaches and assistant coaches increase but the quality of the actual coaching/teaching/skills development in practice/and game play would as well; I'm sure I would read it over time. However, requiring an actual certification might drive away some well-meaning parents/volunteers because of perchieved further time commitment. I would imagine successful implementation would depend on your type of league (perhaps tackle is more committed, I don't know) and local community. If 'program certification' was required in my Flag Football league, I would likely have not volunteered to be an assistant coach that I am now. I do wish you well on your program, CoachCurt. KBOB
  4. CoachingDad, I really don't know of any other forum groups... Have you tried the Youth Flag Football Message Board here as well? Path: Y-coach.com - Forum > Youth Football > Youth Flag Football. CoachCurt and Texas_D_Coach along with Orange, CoachRob, HuskerFan, Rushbuster, Johnp2 and others frequent there; hollad6636 does a good job of organizing common topics. They have a good handle on many things and might be able to give some good advice as well. It is us newer coaches like me that benefit the most from what they have to say. --- I just looked back there...there might be some ideas (or other posters) in the 'Youth Conditioning and Developmental Questions' section as well. Good Luck. KBOB
  5. 2 cents from a relatively new assistant coach – in the middle of second season 5v5, 5-6 yr olds. Not sure if my post will help your situation, but here are a few things I’ve been working with my 5 ½ yr old son (right hander): Holding the ball with both hands, eyes closed, moving ball around with left hand in the palm of right hand until he feels his index finger in the seam next to the laces with his other fingers getting the feel of where to be in relation to the laces. Just snapping the ball several times presenting the ball to him differently each time (accounting for different players playing center). Once he can move the ball to the correct position in two seconds, have him try bringing it up to his ear with both hands as well while moving the ball around to get ball positioned in the right hand correctly. After he’s good with that, have him with eyes open drop back two steps after the snap as well without looking at the ball. Then have him role out a little. The general idea is to enable him to get to a throwing position, for a quick release at the two second mark, without looking at the ball. All this can be done; my son can now do this and he has only been playing flag football (let alone organized sports) since this past September. …it goes without saying we have lots of other things we are working on… Passing tree – can’t help you there. Speed. I don’t know what ‘all the sparq stuff and others(plyos)’ are. But, maybe you could just have him run those distances with ankle and/or wrist weights – just a little weight at first, then adding weight as he gets faster at that weight. I haven’t done this with my son, but it sounds reasonable. However, I have tried to work on improving my son’s quickness (But initially, I was just trying to help him move ‘to the ball’ in order to catch it!). I use a small round ball that can bounce, have him stand 5 yards away facing me, I drop the ball at arm’s length to my side, it bounces but before it hits the ground a second time he has to have moved to catch it. Sometimes, I have him facing sideways or his back to me so he has to quickly turn at my cadence and move to catch the ball. We make a game of it. He’s playing a game and having fun – he may not yet realize that he is also getting quicker and improving hand eye coordination… I’m sure I could increase the closing distance or have him start in an actual 3 or 4 point stance/position, if we were ‘really’ trying to make improvements… Good luck. KBOB
  6. Looks like a Microsoft Word product to me, Harry...using the drawing features. Fairly easy to use once you develop your own offensive formation templates: trips, twins, balanced, etc. Just copy a template file with a particular formation, fill in the colors of choice, draw lines, arrows, and maybe add notes like distances of the routes or spacing of your receivers... A good trick (which takes more time and patience) is to create this all in Microsoft PowerPoint. Take one play completely diagrammed out (this will be one file), copy that slide to the next slide, move each circle on that slide a little bit along their particular line (accounting for any delay, ie. you may not want your center to immediately move down field), repeat many times (copying to next slide moving circles a little) until the play is as complete as you want it, then save...you will now have one file with a truck load of slides; run the file as a slide show with adding some delay between each successive slide and there you have it - a version of that one play as it develops. Might be useful for certain age groups to be able to view plays this way seeing their assigned color moving. [Not suggesting you bring your computer to the field - although some may have newer handhelds that could display this. However, time permitting, this might be useful for players at home with their Mom or Dad's approval in using the computer to view what the coach has put together ...] KBOB
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