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Amp Up Your Practices with These 5 Competitive Drills

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This article was originally posted on the Glazier Coaching Blog.

Elevate your team’s performance with 5 intense, game-like competitive drills. These drills are great for coaches looking to boost competitiveness in practice that will carry over to games.

The presenting coach is Jeremy Plaa, Head Coach at Thomas Downey HS (CA).  The 5 drills in the video below were taken from his Glazier Drive clinic: Competitive Team Drills.

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The video includes Coach Plaa’s explanation of the purpose and rules for each drill as well as practice footage of his team executing the drills.

The Drills in the video are: Circle of life, Box drill, Joust, Tunnel of Truth
Red Zone 1 on 1s.

COMPETITIVE TEAM DRILLS

  • Anything we do with a winner and loser.
  • Winners get rewarded with no consequences.
  • We score every practice, after EDD’s/Indy/Group.
  • Scorekeeper can be a manager or injured player.
  • Three types of scoring used:
    • Full scoring
    • Execution Scoring
    • Assistant coach estimating
  • Announce score after each drill.
  • Announce after each rep in redzone, 4-min/2-min
  • One pushup per point for losing side.
  • Two days in a row, double-pushups.
  • Winning team posted on social media.