After all our clinics and practices, we get our players into a huddle near their parents and ask, “What Did You Learn?”
If you get a bunch of blank stares and confused faces, than you as coaches didn’t do your job!
Not only do we ask several player’s within the huddle what they learned, we ask for details.
Below is a recent exchange between one of our coaches and a player at one of our clinics:
Coach: “What did you learn today?”
Player: “Approaches”
Coach: “Be more specific.”
Player: “We should match-feet when we approach our man.”
Coach: “More specific.”
Player: “Also, we should have our stick out, lacrosse head on the up-field shoulder, inside leg back, and we should match our inside foot with my man’s up-field foot”
Coach: “That’s what I’m talking about!”
It’s important that player’s verbalize the details. This allows us as coaches to know they are really understanding what we are teaching!
It’s all about the details. Never stop learning. Ask questions. Demand detailed answers. Develop.
