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building Cohesiveness and Chemistry in Your Youth Football Team-Chemistry
Building Chemistry When Coaching Youth Football
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The best youth football coaches are not only very good X and O guys and great teachers, they are superior at bringing their teams together. One of the best I've seen at doing that is my friend Tony Holland from Baltimore. Tony has been using our principles for the last 3 years and has had some extraordinary results. He has some very unique techniques he uses to bring his teams together. Tony is a voracious student and has taken some concepts he has used so successfully in his business and applied it to his youth football team to make it better and improve the palpate for his kids.
Laying the Foundation of Your Youth Football Team
Like us, Tony divides his team into manifold groups of 5-6 players. We do the same and assign a coach to each group and allow the group to name their limited "team". By organizing your team in this way the kids feel more connected. When you are running circuit type drills and take a break, it is much easier calling out each group by name and sending that group to the next station. The kids often take pride in their limited group. We've found when doing contentious drills or the fun team building drills from the group, the kids have more fun and endeavor greater when there is competition in the middle of groups. By retention kids in those smaller groups, the kids join together quicker and deeper which in turn improves their fun and commitment levels.
Laying The Solid Rock Foundation
Tony takes this a step further. Before the season, Tony goes to Walmart and buys a bunch of small smooth round rocks. His team is the Ravens, so Tony spray paints each rock purple and puts Ravens stickers on each rock. After each practice the coach of each of the groups awards a rock to one player in his group who has listened the best and efforted the hardest. Each coach hands out the rock to his group winner before the entire team at the end of each practice. Tony said his kids go nuts over getting these limited rocks. He calls the endeavor the kids put while practice as the foundation (rock) of success for his team. The foundation is built with the help of these strong limited rocks that cost Tony less than .25 each.
Lifetime Lessons From Youth Football
These straightforward and cheap rocks are treasured by Tony's players. One player in fact was provocative and mentioned to Tony he had put his treasured rocks in a box and made sure he got them to his new house. It was as if these rocks were his most treasured possession. He told Tony "I'm retention my rocks forever"m which brought a huge and knowing smile to the lips of my buddy Tony. The teams parents even bought in after some preliminary skepticism and now are all for it after seeing the results.
Just think about this kid, 40 years from now in 2048, this same kid is provocative again. He is now 49 years old and loading his belongings into the provocative truck. He takes a look at that last small box from the attic. In that box are a few old scrapbooks, some old kids trophies and his limited box of treasured rocks from Tony Holland, he got back in 2008. 40 years from now that player will still remember Tony and his lessons on effort, commitment and team work. How many other citizen are going to remember you 40 years from now? Think about that.
If you are coaching youth football, my good friend Tony is undoubtedly one of the guys you want to emulate if you want those kind of permanent lessons ingrained into your players.
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