Week 9 Throwing

Here's the general plan for throwing practices:

• 2:00-2:29pm - Unstructured throwing
• 2:29-2:45pm - Dynamic warmup
• 2:45-3:30pm - Throwing drills
• 3:30-4:00pm - 3-on-3 game

During the unstructured time, pick a single throw to work on (e.g. IO backhand).

Drills for this week are:

• Lines, backhands and forehands.  Cut open side, break side, or break side and deep (10 min)
• Come-to breakmark cutting drill, both forces, active marks (10 min)
• 1-on-1 endzone iso (cutter at front of end zone, thrower and marker 5 yards out in middle of field).  (10 min)
• UBC huck drill (10 min)

You can find all the throwing videos here.

Week 8 Throwing

Here's the general plan for throwing practices:

• 2:00-2:29pm - Unstructured throwing
• 2:29-2:45pm - Dynamic warmup
• 2:45-3:30pm - Throwing drills
• 3:30-4:00pm - 5-on-5 game

During the unstructured time, pick a single throw to work on (e.g. IO backhand).

Drills for this week are:

• Lines, backhands and forehands.  Cut open side, break side, or break side and deep (10 min)
• 1-on-1 cutting drill (10 min)
• Come-to breakmark cutting drill, both forces, active marks (10 min)
• UBC huck drill (10 min)

You can find all the throwing videos here.

Week 7: Around Forehands

Here's the general plan for throwing practices:

• 2:00-2:29pm - Unstructured throwing
• 2:29-2:45pm - Dynamic warmup
• 2:45-3:30pm - Throwing drills
• 3:30-4:00pm - 3-on-3 games (keep-away, mini, box, double box, etc.)

Drills for this week are:

• Lines, open side backhands and forehands (10 min)
• Horozontal (diamond) breakmark cutting drill, force backhand, throw around forehand, PASSIVE mark (10 min)
• Come-to breakmark cutting drill, both forces, active marks (10 min)
• UBC huck drill (10 min)
  

Again, I strongly suggest you download the video (that means you need to register for a free Vimeo account). There are a lot of things you can see more clearly when you watch frame-by-frame.

Quick comment on Around Forehands: See comments for Forehands and  IO Forehands.  Don't pivot to the backhand to set up the around forehand.