Comments on: Coaching Youth Basketball in the 21st Century http://learntocoachbasketball.com/coaching-youth-basketball-in-the-21st-century Youth basketball coach education, coaching clinics and certification programs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Coach Johnson http://learntocoachbasketball.com/coaching-youth-basketball-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-11 Coach Johnson Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:59:38 +0000 http://learntocoachbasketball.com/?p=372#comment-11 I use a dynamic warmup for both practice and game situations. We do 2 knee high runs to 1/2 court each followed by a backpedal run, then 2 heels high runs, again followed by backpedal runs, the 2 carioca runs to 1/2 court and back. Then we only spend 8 minutes stretching out out achilles heels-calves-quads-hamstrings-hips-core-chest-shoulders-triceps-biceps-forearms. Tehe we are on the court doing a passig and moving drill before we shoot layups. I believe i getting a preliminary sweat going before we actually start the real practice/game and focusing on what we need to get done before our time is over. I use a dynamic warmup for both practice and game situations. We do 2 knee high runs to 1/2 court each followed by a backpedal run, then 2 heels high runs, again followed by backpedal runs, the 2 carioca runs to 1/2 court and back. Then we only spend 8 minutes stretching out out achilles heels-calves-quads-hamstrings-hips-core-chest-shoulders-triceps-biceps-forearms. Tehe we are on the court doing a passig and moving drill before we shoot layups. I believe i getting a preliminary sweat going before we actually start the real practice/game and focusing on what we need to get done before our time is over.

]]> By: dan winn http://learntocoachbasketball.com/coaching-youth-basketball-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-10 dan winn Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:36:23 +0000 http://learntocoachbasketball.com/?p=372#comment-10 I'm a high school coach, and we used the dynamic warmup for both practice and games. We received some raised eyebrows from people, but I just told the kids to take pride in the things we believe in. We didn't have many injuries, and it did help with flexibility. I also have heard from many coaches that if you added up all the time you stretch during the season, you could have used that time to master something more important. I’m a high school coach, and we used the dynamic warmup for both practice and games. We received some raised eyebrows from people, but I just told the kids to take pride in the things we believe in. We didn’t have many injuries, and it did help with flexibility. I also have heard from many coaches that if you added up all the time you stretch during the season, you could have used that time to master something more important.

]]> By: admin http://learntocoachbasketball.com/coaching-youth-basketball-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-9 admin Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:35:34 +0000 http://learntocoachbasketball.com/?p=372#comment-9 I would not compare what I do with 8-10 year-olds with what I would do with college players. There are few similarities. College teams have almost unlimited practice time - few coaches actually keep their weekly allowances under the 20 hours mandated by the NCAA. Most youth coaches have 1-4 hours per week. College athletes are elite athletes; 8 year-olds are not. I am not against dynamic warm-ups. However, I find that I do them less and less, and typically to teach basic athletic skills, not necessarily as a warm-up or because I believe that the players need stretching. With girls, I primarily do the ACL-prevention exercises based on a couple research studies. I think there are other ways to raise the core temperature. But, I also believe that if your pre-practice warm-up is a dynamic warm-up, then you should use the same warm-up as your pre-game warm-up. Games are usually of a higher intensity than practice, yet many teams that use dynamic warm-ups in practice use only lay-up drills to warm-up before a game. If the dynamic warm-up is not imperative before the higher intensity activity, why is it mandatory for a lower intensity activity? Again, I use a short dynamic warm-up usually incorporating ankle hops, squats, 1/2 speed and 3/4 speed sprints, back pedal, carioca, single-leg hops and lunges. But, I use the warm-up for ACL prevention and to create a break between the daily activities and basketball practice. As for college coaches, most rely on habit. Some stretch; some do dynamic warm-ups. One of the top volleyball coaches in the country uses a 5-minute warm-up with jogging, carioca, lunges, side lunges and not much else. When I played in junior high school, we did 4 1/4 speed runs/back-pedal, 4 1/2-speed runs/back-pedal, 4 3/4-speed runs/back-pedal and 4 full speed runs/back-pedal and then moved to lay-up drills where we had to make 20 in a row as a team. Nobody in four years had a pulled muscle or significant injury beyond one player who sprained his ankle repeatedly. I would not compare what I do with 8-10 year-olds with what I would do with college players. There are few similarities. College teams have almost unlimited practice time – few coaches actually keep their weekly allowances under the 20 hours mandated by the NCAA. Most youth coaches have 1-4 hours per week. College athletes are elite athletes; 8 year-olds are not.

I am not against dynamic warm-ups. However, I find that I do them less and less, and typically to teach basic athletic skills, not necessarily as a warm-up or because I believe that the players need stretching. With girls, I primarily do the ACL-prevention exercises based on a couple research studies.

I think there are other ways to raise the core temperature.

But, I also believe that if your pre-practice warm-up is a dynamic warm-up, then you should use the same warm-up as your pre-game warm-up. Games are usually of a higher intensity than practice, yet many teams that use dynamic warm-ups in practice use only lay-up drills to warm-up before a game. If the dynamic warm-up is not imperative before the higher intensity activity, why is it mandatory for a lower intensity activity?

Again, I use a short dynamic warm-up usually incorporating ankle hops, squats, 1/2 speed and 3/4 speed sprints, back pedal, carioca, single-leg hops and lunges. But, I use the warm-up for ACL prevention and to create a break between the daily activities and basketball practice.

As for college coaches, most rely on habit. Some stretch; some do dynamic warm-ups. One of the top volleyball coaches in the country uses a 5-minute warm-up with jogging, carioca, lunges, side lunges and not much else.

When I played in junior high school, we did 4 1/4 speed runs/back-pedal, 4 1/2-speed runs/back-pedal, 4 3/4-speed runs/back-pedal and 4 full speed runs/back-pedal and then moved to lay-up drills where we had to make 20 in a row as a team. Nobody in four years had a pulled muscle or significant injury beyond one player who sprained his ankle repeatedly.

]]> By: dan winn http://learntocoachbasketball.com/coaching-youth-basketball-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-8 dan winn Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:56:07 +0000 http://learntocoachbasketball.com/?p=372#comment-8 Do you not subscribe to the concept of dynamic stretching? I thought getting the core temperature up and doing movement stretching exercises for a few minutes to start practice was a good thing. Don't most Division 1 programs do this? Is this wrong? Do you not subscribe to the concept of dynamic stretching? I thought getting the core temperature up and doing movement stretching exercises for a few minutes to start practice was a good thing. Don’t most Division 1 programs do this? Is this wrong?

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