Despite the fact that Brodie Smith was in town running an Ultimate clinic, the turnout for Kapow training was good.
We have run a drill for the past couple of sessions that aims to teach the principles of our open field offense, adding in more and more elements each week to make it more game realistic each week. The drops that were a bit of a problem last week seemed to be mostly avoided, with a punishment of singing out loud lines from the popular children's song "how much is that doggy in the window" for drops.
We then went over our two offensive endzone variations. It's good that we introduced these early as they were another source of turnovers last season and I think it's good that we've introduced a second look to vary up our arsenal. We finished off with some five pull and some games, with the aims of practicing the things we had worked on. An additional rule was introduced in that, if the team on offense got into the red zone (20 yards (ish) out from the endzone) then they could take a timeout to setup one of the endzone variants. This worked well in the games as a lot of the endzone possessions resulted in goals, even when the defense had time to analyze and set themselves in appropriate defensive looks each time knowing exactly what the offense was going to look for. One problem we had last year though was transitioning from open field offense to endzone offense and we can't call timeouts every time we need to do that during the season so I think this additional rule may have only been for the first this session to help learning the systems. The concentration was good throughout and it was a good session, and the attendance has been much better this early in the season that it was last year.
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