Posted by: Gordon
What do you want to succeed at? How badly do you want it? I stumbled across this video entitled How Bad Do You Want It? (Success). The video is a combination of a football player working hard to get faster, stronger, better with an audio track dubbed over it. The audio track comes from from motivational speaker Eric Thomas, also known as the Hip ...
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Rich Bayman one of our Youth Coaches send this to me a few days ago and it has a very strong message. It was given to him by a local coach but it is from Jay Bilas a basketball sports announcer and former Elite level Basketball player at Duke.
I have always wondered about toughness, as there are many forms of it. We say the word a lot and sometimes it’s ...
Continue Reading →Posted by: Gordon
I hope everyone reading this blog had an excellent start to 2012. I want to wish all of our players, parents, coaches, and lovers of lacrosse a Happy New Year from Atlanta Youth Lacrosse. Now, onto some New Year’s Resolutions!
An interesting survey was done in 1999. It found that only 35% of Americans followed through with their New Year’s Resolutions. That is just over one third of all Americans! One of the biggest ...
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The trouble with youth sports is every kid grows at a different rate in both size and skill. This creates a very wide disparity between teams on the lacrosse field. I officiated a middle school team where I swear every kid must have been fed Muscle Milk since birth. Compared to the other team, these kids were giants. Not only were they big, they were also very skilled overall, and by the end of the first ...
Continue Reading →Posted by: Lou Corsetti
I believe that if you take a few team Principles and leverage them around a program of creating responsibility, self-motivation, attitude and respect within each player, you will have a formula for individual and team growth and accomplishment.
Principle 1: Have Fun
Every moment both practices and games should be fun. Eliminate as much down time in practice as possible, keep your drills as up tempo drills (no drill should last more then 8-12 minutes) (some drills can be as little as ...
