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As always, I am surprised how quickly the spring season comes to a close. We are wrapping up our last playoff and championship games this week and weekend for Atlanta Youth Lacrosse, and I wanted to give a quick rundown of what to expect from the AYL blog moving into the summer.
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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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A few years ago I was paired up with two excellent youth coaches for a series of lacrosse clinics at an Atlanta middle school. The job was simple, but I had one problem. The kids were not responding to me very much. My coaching friend laid it out to me during the second clinic. “Gordon – with kids it’s best to explain things as simply as possible. That means take all the explaining you are doing and shorten it into ...
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Ah, the delightfully fun game of Marco-Polo. For those unfamiliar with this favorite game go to your local pool before it closes for the summer. If enough kids are around a game of Marco-Polo will eventually get started in the shallow end.
How Marco-Polo went from renowned explorer of Asia to namesake of a children’s pool game, I will never know. Regardless of how the game got its name, I want to focus on what Marco-Polo removes: sight.
Lacrosse is a game ...
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As I mentioned in this week’s first post, Andy Halperin and I are putting on an officiating clinic on Sunday, September 4th. We will cover the basic rules each youth official needs to know, as well as whistle blowing, flag throwing, penalty reporting, conducting faceoffs, and lots of signaling. It is absolutely free of charge, as we want as many youth officials as possible to go through the training. Only 5th-12th graders are permitted to ...
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This is a tough topic to discuss in youth sports, and even tougher because I am not a parent. I cannot imagine what I would feel if I saw my future kid get drilled in a U13 game and not get up quickly. I can only think my insides would be twisting into a Gordian Knot until I see him rise up. Until I have kids of my own, I will cherish my current moments of carefree worry, but I ...
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To a lot of new players and parents speaking in Lacrosse-ease is as simple as speaking Latin. To all of these individuals I give you the Rosetta Stone of Lacrosse Terms:
Note – many of these terms were taken from other websites. To make citing easier each term that I did not create myself is color coded to the original website. Green = www.e-lacrosse.com. Blue = www.walax.com. Red ...
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