Amazing – Shooting Drill, Transition Drill and More
OK, I try and keep these articles and podcasts timeless… but Coach Brandon Childs and the York Men’s Lacrosse Team have had an amazing season in 2016. No surprise to me, this is our second podcast with Coach Childs and he is by far one of the more creative coaches in our library.
He has a unique perspective and a special way of modifying lacrosse drills to accomplish so much more in preparing players to be successful. So much so that I am not even sure how to describe this drill, in his words “it is a shooting drill.” You or I might even call it a transition drill with a special focus, regardless of how we might label the lacrosse drill it is awesome!
Going back to my first podcast with this great coach, he often would enhance his “Shooting” drills not in a skeleton format, but with defenders and goalies in the cage. Crazy eh?
The foundation begins with Coach Brandon Childs suggesting that his players shoot really well in their base or skeleton shooting drills, most often run without a goalie. However, he observed that often the shots taken were not necessarily directly realistic to game scenarios, … stay with me here.