ALL COACHES BE HONEST PART 2 !

[mantaraydre]

COACHES,


IN ALL HONESTY

How many times a week do you spend on practicing with your team.
running plays, passing plays, diff formations, base performance verification.
how well do you know each and every player on your team. Just tweaking a great base is not going to win you anything.

** Did you create a standardized playbook for yourself.
**THE GREAT Don smith always told me, When you run any play, make sure that play has it's purpose. DONT JUST LINEUP AND HOPE SOMETHING HAPPENS. That's why he has 26 championship rings

1) The great anthony burgess pratices every single day without fail. That's why he has multiple superbowl rings

2)The great mike robertson told me he will wake up three o'clock in the morning just to throw some ttqb passes. Also cut the board on to test some players. 3:00 in the morn. That's why he has multiple superbowl rings.

It seems your work ethic can be the difference in 5 extra wins for yourself.One of my racehorse owner friends told me, once you pick one thing to focus on, the mind has a way to block out everything around you. Maybe an hour 0r 2 per day of total concentration may be the answer.

SO BE HONEST, HOW MANY TIME A WEEK DO YOU PRACTICE, AND WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU PRATICE ON.

I hope all coaches respond in detail to determine if the miniature football community is working as much as all the champions in the hobby. remember, a league filled with coaches with an equal skill level and coaching knowledge makes for one hell of a season.


MANTARAYDRE

[Joeram57]

As many know I saw my first head to head competition, detailed figures, tweaked bases, loopers and passing of a felt football, real time, w/my own eyes the 1st or 2nd week of January at the DSEFL playoffs/super bowl.

My intent when I went there, after being invited, was to just hang an hour or so and admire the figures, boards and talent I had read about for a couple weeks or so and then go back to working on getting my solitaire leagues of Miggle stamped helmet teams on a 620 board going.

That never happened, since that day I have bought bases and figs (unpainted) from Miggle, FF and BB, worked on tweaking, detailing a college team (my son's college, Valdosta State Univ), passing w/TDQ (I had never thrown a pass before in EF), heating limbs on players, etc, etc.

To your point, I seriously believe I spend about at least 14 hrs a day practicing, including, passing, tweaking, trying to learn the "angles" and time spent speaking w/coachs around the country( I feel sorry for Geno H) and locally to pick their brains. My facemasks, painted leg stripe's, glove's are not done yet on my team, not even all my helmet logo's are on yet. That is because I feel I should spend my time "scripting" my plays, selecting the correctly tweaked bases for an O or D positions.

Man, you wanted detail so I'm laying it out...I have watched ALL the youtube video's, JIMBO 32 trap, Reg, lateral movement, screen play, electric coach's "training camp" video's.

I could keep going, but, I'll let ya off the hook cause I gotta get back to practice
I sit ~24 hours from my first league game EVER that COUNTS against the DSEFL super bowl runner up and I must concede to the fact that I put the time in to do the best that I can do in this short period of time. I now have some knowledge gleaned from others and formed into my own style. Now it's time the gain the intangible and ever so important experience.

I have realized in MF the equivalent of the physical and mental intensity I possessed in the many competitive sports I played in my younger years and into my mid forty's (corporate leagues) is not going to help me here. An adrenaline rush which gets one to hit harder, run harder/faster in football or drive to the basket and "hang" in the air and triple pump just does not apply, therefore it MUST be replaced w/mental preparation and practice.

No matter what the final scores are for my two games on Sunday, I will learn a lot , I'm sure, and be back at the "drawing" board until the next meet.

Like anything else, you MUST practice !!!

You asked for detail and honesty, hope I stayed on point...

Joe Ram

[mantaraydre]

JOE,

It sounds like your a serious and determined coach. You are on the right track. Once the masters respond to this post, YOU WILL LEARN A WHOLE LOT MORE. Just play your game sunday. LIKE DON SMITH SAY'S, RUN EACH PLAY WITH A PURPOSE. Your right, no other sports experience will help you here.It's you and your team, all you can do is prepare the right way. It seems you have been doing that. take a pad and right down everything you see in the game that needs to be corrected for the next game. wow, 14 hrs is impressive. Your work ethic is admired. I think im going to increase mine even more now. thanx for the added inspo !!!!

good luck on sunday

ps/if his defensive line is stronger than your offensive, pull out the ol reg rutledge wide line splits. Then pick whatever lane you want. Reg will explain this better than i can.


mantaraydre

[Vince148]

I'm new and preparing for my first league experience. I've been practicing plays everyday. I'm looking at how different turns of the dials create running lanes, etc.

I still need to work on getting receivers off the line without being hindered by shutdown corners. That's my biggest problem right now.

Defense seems pretty decent. Loopers from both sides are set. I have shutdown corners and cover corners. I'm proud of the cover corners because I customized them myself. I've got my FS to go in all directions. I have a speedy MLB.

I may not win a lot of games because of inexperience in my first go-round, but I hope to learn a lot more.

[HOOP]

NOT ONCE!!!!!!!!
So to all of you guys who have lost any 4 play seeding scrimmages to me........ :
well, i just got lucky. chalk it up to "Any Given Sunday"

but i must say, i still love playing. and as i told Mozeek, when i do get back into playing competitively (and i will), i am coming back with the THUNDER!!

but the reason i dont play is, I cant find the time right now to even turn the board on, much less have alotta company once the buzz gets going (younglings )

i had/have a strong interest to play some MPFL style, about the only practicing i have done, but here in NYC, i cant find an MPFL partner to scrimmage with.

Luckily, the hobby has many aspects to offer other than coaching.
i have found passion in other parts of the hobby that i engage in during the free time i do have. Customizing, helping the new guys, kickin it with the guys, forming my solitaire league, painting, garage selling, that is where my interest lies right now.

Scott

PS- 14hrs a day, huh? Man, to have that time, S W E E T !!!!!!!!!!

[Shabby J]

Originally Posted by Vince148

I'm new and preparing for my first league experience. I've been practicing plays everyday. I'm looking at how different turns of the dials create running lanes, etc.

I still need to work on getting receivers off the line without being hindered by shutdown corners. That's my biggest problem right now.

Defense seems pretty decent. Loopers from both sides are set. I have shutdown corners and cover corners. I'm proud of the cover corners because I customized them myself. I've got my FS to go in all directions. I have a speedy MLB.

I may not win a lot of games because of inexperience in my first go-round, but I hope to learn a lot more.

You may not win a lot of games, but do not let that discourage you. Every time you go up against an experienced coach that match up is also going to help you elevate your game.

Focus on the smaller "victories" during a game with an experienced coach:

Are your men doing what you need them to do, when you need them to do it every time?
Are you passing up to par?
Is your running game working?
Is your defense as strong or stronger than his?
Is your offense as strong or stronger than his?
Are you containing his receivers?
Are you getting your receivers off the line?
etc...etc...etc...

Focus on putting some points on the board against an experienced coach and focus on holding him to no more then 2 or 3 TDs and then consider that a victory.

If you can say yes to all or some of these, even though you may still have lost, you know you are definitely on the right track with your squad. The coaching experience will come.

I am going through that right now as a rookie member of the LAEFL in some of my games, playing ring winning coaches who have been doing this for ten years makes it tough to match their level of coaching experience. I use this mentality to gauge my progress against really experienced coaches.

And it all leads right back to the topic of the thread...PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE...I am putting in 20 minutes of passing drills every night before I go to bed. I am also putting in a few hours during the week to work on my squad and spend about a total of 15 hours on the weekend working with them.

I returned to the hobby 4 years ago and played mostly solitaire, but for the last year or so have been involved with the the LAEFL guys, they have definitely opened my eyes to what practice can do for your game.

[Anthony D Burgess]

I love this post!!!!!!!!!

Practice is the key!!!!! Now I know that guys practice tweaking bases and ttqb, however this is not coaching, think about that for a minute.

What formation counters another formation, think, think think!!!!!!

For me I know what play I want to run and then you add the intelligence of the position, and position discipline, coaching discipline etc then you move away from luck into the skill of coaching.

Why wish and hope it happens when you can make it happen!

Now for what we do in my league, if you have a coach who just tweak bases an practices with the ttqb and he plays a coach who practices like and actual football team practices, then he already has the advantage through proper preparation.

Now if I can give advice to every person who reads this post it would be this;

Tweaking and ttqb skill are good, it's good to practice them, but it's not enough!

Hear are some things you should and make a common practice:

1: Know every player on you're team.
2: Organize you're side line area.
3: Practice setting up you're formation in 45 seconds or less.
4: Practice countering formation.
5: Practice running a set play 10 times, then run that same play verse 3-4 defense, 4-3, 5-2, etc (Run all you're play using this formula)
6: Practice you're kicking game, punts, field goals, etc.
7: Practice put and kick off returns.
8: Practice game situations, 3rd & 5, 4th & 2, 2nd & 10.
9: Practice reading the coverages, who is open, yards to gain, and clock management.
10:Practice looking for the weakness on you're opponets team.
11:Practice Pass Placement and TTQB passing and defense
12:Practice Base tweaking.

These are just a few things I do every day when I practice.

If you do the math, Practice TTQB +1, Base Tweaking +1 = 2 vs the 12 areas listed above who will have the advantage? 2 or 12 ?

What and how you practice is just as vital as how offten you practice!

So the next time you lose a game, don't say it was the style or system you played in, how about looking at how you prepared for that game!

Male pride is the chief reason why many coaches lose, they think they are better then they actualy are.

I hope that someone will learn from what I have wrote, take care and may the peace of God be with you all.