2/23 Field Training: Keep Your Head Up

Apparent disorder is a product of control.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

0-10 Tennis Ball Work
QB and Receiver against a Corner Back.  Working on the Corner Back being able to track the receiver and still make a play on the ball.  At the same time we are working on the timing of the pass between the QB and the receiver.

10-20 Footskills Routine

20-30 Receiving Technique

30-55 3 Color Keep Away
For today's session we continued to work on keeping our head up while we play.  The big point I'm trying to get across to the girls is to talk to the people around you before they get the ball.  Keep looking and talking so everyone has the full picture in their head.

-We had 18 players so we divided into three teams of 6 players each.
-Orange and Yellow were on offense first against the Pink team. 
-The offense scored a point for making 4 passes in a row.
-The defense scored a point if they could intercept the ball and put their foot on top of the ball to control it.
-For the first couple of games the teams on offense could pass to either the people with the same color pinney as them or the other color. 
-As we became better I put in the restriction that you could not pass the ball to someone wearing the same color as you.  So Orange had to pass to yellow.

The idea of the game is simple but the execution becomes tough when players are trying to look around before they get the ball and still take a good first touch. 

Most players were did one of two things.  1) They kept their head down and only worried about the ball as it came to them so they controlled their first touch well, but they did not know where to go with the ball so they lost it or held onto it for way too long.  2) They kept looking around for who to pass to next and they did not concentrate on their first touch because they were thinking about the next play so they would take a poor first touch.  It was like the saying in football that "You've got to catch the ball before you can run with it."

This game was a really good reminder to all of the kids that we still need to keep concentrating on making our first touch better.  It should become good enough where you don't have to think about your technique.

55-75 Scrimmage