Good, bad, fun, and odd things you've done at practice.

[Tehb2]

Anyone have good stories about things you've had to do at practice? Drills, punishments, scrimmage stories? Coaches can get pretty creative in their attempts to teach and improve, so I know they are out there!


I'll share some: Once in 8th grade my team's defensive coach was having the defense practice their slides; specifically the cross crease "coma" slide where the D-pole across the other side of the crease (or maybe covering the crease man, I can't remember...:thumbsup:) and blindsides the attackman dodging from X. Well they needed to have some practice on their accuracy on connecting body to body, so they decided to use me as a moving target. I must have dodged from X around 20+ times, each time my job was to drive around, defenseman in tow, and purposefully roll back INTO the oncoming slide so the D-pole could try to hit me. That was certainly an interesting experience.

Also, we used to play hand ball every once in a while on Fridays to work on teamwork and passing.

Sometimes, my high school team ends practice with a contest to see which team can successfully complete a certain number of passes in a row. Well, with JV vs. Varsity, its a little unfair for them (JV), cause I don't think they've ever won, at least I can't remember losing. Of course, loser has to do sprints.

[roycegracie47]

In College, the day before games we'd play lax dodgeball with tennis balls. We played by greek dodge rules so even if you were out, the other team had to watch their backs.

We also used to have face off bets. While the middies were doing face off drills you had to stand on one side or the other of the midfield line to place your "bet" on which side came up with the ball with the losing side, including the guys in the drill doing push-ups. The bets were typically 5 push-ups only but for the guys actually in the drill it tired them quicker leading to more double or nothing situations in attempts to buy breathing room.

[GoBucks]

This past season, the day before a game our JV team decided to have short-shorts day. So all the guys tried to ask girls at school if they could wear their shorts. And as we're in the locker room getting dressed, our coach calls it off because with our jock straps on, we pretty much had the biggest cameltoes ever. So disappointing.

This other time was our coaches birthday, so we all filled up some water balloons and waited for him. When he came out onto the field to talk to us we surprised him and started throwing all the water balloons at him, and got him soaked. Then we ate cake and after that we started practicing.

[laxdrummer3692]

tennis ball laxdodgeball is AMAZING

[atacklax]

My coach once took a shot that hit pipe and went straight into the cupless crotch of a nearby attackman.

Of course half court 4 on 4 is always fun when none of the team shows up.

[NBCLAX23]

we had this senior one year who was crazy, not stupid and would do any thing for a dollar crazy but psyco and he charged and put a middie and 2 dpoles on there backs to get a ball up field. he didnt get penalized but we did on the sideline for being over zealous lets just say. At his last game he jumped and hit a middie with both feet. like i said psyco

[splaxer13]

ya i our old high school coach jim beardmore (a legend), would do screening drills where someone would stand in front of the goal, and he would rip shots.also during winter in the chesapeake bay, there was the polar bear plunge, if any senior didnt go, he would pour ice water on them. So sure enough some seniors didnt show, so that night he took them out side in front of the whole team in 20 degree weather and dumped ice water on them, the next day he was fired for hazing.

[MaKiMaKi13]

ya i our old high school coach jim beardmore (a legend), would do screening drills where someone would stand in front of the goal, and he would rip shots.also during winter in the chesapeake bay, there was the polar bear plunge, if any senior didnt go, he would pour ice water on them. So sure enough some seniors didnt show, so that night he took them out side in front of the whole team in 20 degree weather and dumped ice water on them, the next day he was fired for hazing.

I actually remembered hearing about that a little while back thats some pretty intense stuff

craziest thing ive seen is we were shooting in a friend of ours backyards

my friend Ian was ripping shots at the net and a kid was standing way off to the side of the goal with no cup on ,lets just say he nailed him right in the nads and he had to be hospitalized for quite awhile

[njone42]

that must suck

[Tehb2]

Getting hit in the crotch seems pretty common around here. I once git hit by a stray pass that skipped off the wet grass. Took a few minutes to feel like I was ready to run without too much pain but the whole time I'm getting teased about missing the drills. Well, one kid in particular was enjoying himself the most, but I felt better the next week when he got hit by a stray pass and was on the ground a bit. "Now you think it doesn't hurt?!"

[rynolax]

Playing goal.... hit in the shin where I had a hematoma by a crank in a one on one. Bleeds, coach makes me sit. I go back in, the first shot I see I get hit in the ribs by a really hard shot. I was rolling on the groung laughing, but it hurt pretty bad.

[-HSKR-]

After running 4 full field suicides, our coach told us we wouldn't have to do anymore if someone beat him in a race from end line to midfield and back (all of us were running but only one person had to beat him). If we lost to him we had to run and then he would let us try again. We finally won after like 5 tries.

[MSLax]

i got nailed by a shot from brad ross during a summer league game right in the inner thigh or hip area and then it hit my cup, he took an outside crank and all day shots were going high so i tried to duck but of all shots to go low, and i ended up ducking too slow anyways and just got railed in the inner thigh/hip

[brickwall500]

we dressed up my friend in a life jaket n made him wear it the whole practice cus hes kind of small and the coach didnt want him to drown in the puddles- so we got him to wear one the entire practice- hes mad cool though-also bringing a harmonica to practice annoying varsity or another whistle screwing with everyone-

[Brandon303]

Laxtennis (we would practise on a tennis court before the snow was off the field) and running our warm-up jog in our jocks (still with snow on the ground).

Us Canucks don't really care about the temperature when it comes to doing stuff.

[Auburn10]

I remember one time these two kids were messing around haha and the dpole ended up getting real pissed and this is all before practice and started to chase our one middie around the field and well he threw his dpole at him like a spear and it hit him in the eye and lets just say he had to go to the hospital and get like 12 stitches or something like that haha

[splaxer13]

we dressed up my friend in a life jaket n made him wear it the whole practice cus hes kind of small and the coach didnt want him to drown in the puddles- so we got him to wear one the entire practice- hes mad cool though-also bringing a harmonica to practice annoying varsity or another whistle screwing with everyone-

haha that sounds hilarious

[QBYattackmen15]

I remember one time these two kids were messing around haha and the dpole ended up getting real pissed and this is all before practice and started to chase our one middie around the field and well he threw his dpole at him like a spear and it hit him in the eye and lets just say he had to go to the hospital and get like 12 stitches or something like that haha

my god dude thats bad. i would punch that dpole right in the face if i saw that. did you guys have to run sprints for that? cause ym coach would make us do that deffinetly.

[sjesuitlax]

Something worth trying is during line drills , i suggest the over-the-shoulder drill for best results, launch the balls at your teammates that get annoying. i'm not sure about a hard ball but its fun with a soft one. To make it even better use their jerseys as a point system. like if their number is 12 and you hit the 1, you get one point, hit the 2 you get 2 points

[bigdale9]

i gave our coach an arm stinger in practice.
he was a 6'4 250 odd pound roofer who said he was so tough he didnt need pads

[Sir Mackel]

One time at practice I had to run out my shot into the parking lot, and I wasn't looking and then I got hit by a car. Haha, and then I had to run some laps for not looking for any cars.

Also this other time my team was crossing a street and my coach yells to look before we cross(we were like 7) and then he catches up to us and this muscle car goes flying by with a cop car chasing him. Haha

[njone42]

hah that would be funny

[nick908]

One time at practice I had to run out my shot into the parking lot, and I wasn't looking and then I got hit by a car. Haha, and then I had to run some laps for not looking for any cars.

Also this other time my team was crossing a street and my coach yells to look before we cross(we were like 7) and then he catches up to us and this muscle car goes flying by with a cop car chasing him. Haha

ahahahaha thats amazing. you got hit by a car and then had to run laps lol.

[SevernaPark_Lax]

for my lax team in junior AA we sometimes do gravity stretches for like 15 minutes then when we ran our lap we ran up this hill into a path in the woods and would go ding dong ditch houses and lay in their yards(a whole, fully padded, lacrosse team) for 15 minutes then scrimmage

and whenever we would beat AYLA or Broadneck we would play baseball the next practice

AND WE WERE STILL MARYLAND JUNIOR AA STATE RUNNER UPS

[chrismpell]

In highschool, I was watching an attackman behind the cage and he passed. Before I could turn around a crank slammed me in the back of the neck. It knocked me down (Im 6'4) and I was out for a few seconds.

[Guardian]

i raced my head coach day befor every game

[riddlebox]

greatest practise ever was in a field with pure fog. when we ran laps we could run about 10 feet away from the coach and walk the rest of the lap because our coaches couldnt see us.

[THE_1protector]

there was a scrimmage during practice with the jv and varsity mixed up and its pretty fun but as a surprise, the coaches came in. the D coach looks like a turtle in all his gear. so really whenever anyone says his name, someone goes, ''turtle turtle'' .

[Toxica]

Lets see at rec practice (Long time ago) we were scrimmaging and one of our teammates (one of the best on the team) he passes it to a newbie and says,"Catch." The kid not paying attention gets smacked right in the head with the ball. The ball flies threw the air and goes over the player defending him. It happen to magically go into the head of the guy that just threw it and he goes and scores. After that he starts dancing and making the "JAZZ FINGERS."

[aviator7]

suicide lunges

[valax16]

one time this kid on my team dropped a pass and it went into the woods, so he went to go get the ball out, and he pulled his stick out of the grass and there was a snake like wrapped around his lacrosse head.

[mercenary]

every time someone got a new stick our defense coach would always ask how it threw and he would take the stick and chuck it as far as he could. he also forgot his whistle one day and used a turkey call instead. and in 8th grade winter league i was playing pole for the first time and i brought it up to the left of the goal, fell over and shot the ball in. also in a game this pole tripped over himself from outside the box and scored on our goalie, 'twas hilarious

[jlark92]

We once had a practice where we were having a shot contest to see who could make it in the net from farthest away. My gf showed up right as I was about to shoot. Literally right as I was winding up I saw her, stopped my shot, and waved. My coach cranked one at my balls (he thought I was wearing a cup) and said "take a cold shower, playa!" I was out for awhile.....

[aviator7]

^^^should have showed her some of your moves!

[Yonderhey]

last year our coach had us do this muscal balls drill. He throws a bunch of balls in the circle of guys and says whoever doesnt get one is out

[kevidinho]

Broke our goalies thumb shooting on him before practice




i felt bad

[cali feeder]

Sean Lindsay ripped a shot and hit our Manager in the inner thigh. I don't even think he went down though, mad props to him. That shot had to be at least 95.

Xander Ritz hit me in the nuts with a pass one time at a clinic I was at. He passes really hard.

In 8th grade, we were scrimmaging the team we were going to play the next day, and I broke the goalie's thumb, and my shaft.

[laxnguitar402]

For our practices before the snow melted, we would go down to the tennis courts and get to dry off the snow covered courts by rolling acrosse them. we also did the same kind of thing in rainy weather to dry the fields before our games. Good times.
Then a few times a season we play a really fun game called "red orb." In red orb you get rid of your sticks and instead of a lacrosse ball you use a "red orb" aka a dodgeball. lacrosse rules apply for the most part. Its wicked fun and also really helpful actually.

[spyopticgoggles]

i pantsed (sp?) a kid and he was only wearing shorts.

[Lax'N'Roll]

Funniest-Once after conditioning we were doing sit ups and some kid popped a boner, he tried to pull the pleat of the pants excuse (but he was serious), it twas hilarious...
or another time some fat d-pole on our team got mad because he hacked by an attackman, and he tried chasing after him, but cudnt keep up so he chucked his stick and hit the kid in the back of the legs and he tripped it was a 30 yard throw


Worst thing ever- Full field suicide crab walks, and bear crawls; just thinking of it makes me cringe

Best thing Ever- Our coach got really pissed and told us we were running 30 endline to endline sprints and a kid swallowed a bee, and got stung in the throat, which ended the sprints

[ItalyLaxer11]

For our practices before the snow melted, we would go down to the tennis courts and get to dry off the snow covered courts by rolling acrosse them. we also did the same kind of thing in rainy weather to dry the fields before our games. Good times.
Then a few times a season we play a really fun game called "red orb." In red orb you get rid of your sticks and instead of a lacrosse ball you use a "red orb" aka a dodgeball. lacrosse rules apply for the most part. Its wicked fun and also really helpful actually.

We play that in gym, but call it powerball.....we had to start playing in gym this instead of lacrosse as kids kept getting injured, and i pretty much pawn at it cause its basically like playin lax and i'm the fastest kid in the class. We play rules were you have to dribble the ball(a volleyball),so there is no possesion. We also do it in lax practice sometimes cause it forces you to think fast and be strategic.

The funniest thing i ever remember happening in practice was the time my friend gorgens was going 1vs1 against this kid(mark) who was new to lax but his bro was captain of he team. So it went as follows: Gorgens split dodges mark from up top, gets a step on him. Mark sees that he is beat but also sees his oppurtunity. A folding chair is just sitting there on the field bout 20yards away from the goal on the left side. The whole team see's this, except for gorgens. Mark decides to push gorgens whilst he is closest to the chair. He hits the chair full stride, and what does it do? It folds on his spherical reproductive organs.....
The whole team literally ROFLed, as gorgens was rolling around on the floor crying. great practice

[Nanaimo_Lax]

Worst practise ever: Someone forgot the net at their house, and coach made us all do squats, sprints, Scottish-Mile PLanks and, everyones favourite, push-ups for the entire practise!

[Spartanlax47]

me and another attackmen were warming up our goalie before an indoor game, so i was wearing the adidas sandals

the other guy passed it really hard, but his stick had an buttload of whip
it hit me in the foot and broke my toe

but i still played

me and the same attackmen had 15 goals between the two of us that night

good times

and another time during the spring, we were playing wall ball and this hugeeeeee fat defensemen went to catch his ball, and he slipped into the mud and had to run around with mud like in his face mask
for some reason he always wore skate shoes, and not cleats

[brineman9]

I got mad at my coach and threw my stick at him......

[lacrosseking2]

Funniest - a kid on my team was running in the open field and then out of no where he found a way to stick his stick between his legs and then face planted onto the field, we looked at where he fell and there was his faceprint in the field it was about 5 inches deep.
and another time a kid ripped a shot and hit the cross bar and then the ball flew into a parking lot and destroyed our coaches windshield.

Best - the defenders got to watch the attackmen and middies do 5 sets of build ups on the foot ball field ( run from the back of the end zone to the 10 and back then to the 20 and back then the 30 etc etc ) while our coach went to get us hot chocolate ( it was about 30 degrees out ). it was great

[titans 43]

one time a kid on my team got made in try outs when this kid slashed him so he took off the guys helmet and beat with it, but he still made it because it's kinda accepted here

[Boilanger]

I've gotta say the best thing thats ever happened to me would be when I was playing wall ball. My little bro came out and ran in front of the ball as it was returning from the wall, he got hit in the nuts.

Worst thing ever - he tried to get revenge....

[cali feeder]

We had "dolphin shorts" day a while ago. Everyone wore the shortest nylon shorts they could find (with a cup under for added effect) all practice. Made for some funny plays.

[geelox]

ha some of these are awesome. at practice if our coach had a good day we will sometimes play revolutionary war. where we all get like fifty yards away on two sides. and then just chuck balls at each other. haha its awesome and someone always gets hurt. luckily not too seriosly. we do a circle of death sometimes which is locker boxing in a circle. its nuts. ha and one time when our coach was way late we played retard (no offense anyone!) lax knockout. it was like knockout but w/ only one shot. like penalty kicks kinda. it was great.

[BigguhPlease25]

I actually had a friend who was running to stay with his man and ran right into one of our midfielders and hit each other and fell down. Hilarious.

[brineman9]

o another story, i almost killed 4 inosint people with one of my shots becuase we practice next to a relay for life thingy and i almost took out 2 windshields....

[tomtom]

This is technically something that happened in a game, but I think it's worth sharing anyways.

Theres a player on our team last year, senior playing for his first time(he was a hockey guy). While I dont like to insult somebody like this normally, he was a rather low caliber player. So we go through the first part of our varsity schedule and he doesnt get any playing time, and we arrive at our first JV game. He's slated to start in his first lacrosse game.

Game day rolls around, and I arrive 2 hours before start to help the JV guys warm up at the wall. This goes on for an hour, and then we move to team warmups. This player has not yet shown up.

Warmups end, and the call for captains is made. Player still isnt there, and people are beginning to wonder. Eventually, we can't wait for him and another player moves to his spot. The first half of the game goes by and he still isnt there. We go to halftime, and while we're resting up he walks onto the field, apparently in no hurry, and walks up to our coach.

"OK coach, I'm ready to play"
"Where the [expletive deleted] have you been? The game started at noon!"
"I was going to come, but I was making lasagna and it took longer than i thought."

'nuff said.

[Serpe]

we dressed up my friend in a life jaket n made him wear it the whole practice cus hes kind of small and the coach didnt want him to drown in the puddles- so we got him to wear one the entire practice- hes mad cool though-also bringing a harmonica to practice annoying varsity or another whistle screwing with everyone-

Ahahahhah! oh man
The weirdest thing we've done at practice is this ridiculous drill were we had to sprint to our coach, dive and roll, and then sprint back to line. it was so stupid

[Red]

Played a man down defense with short like 8in sticks to work on footwork and stuff. Me on def started playing soccer with the other d poles with the ball as the worst offensive line was in and we batted the ball away with the short sticks. It was so fun yet also very helping.

[Atomxkid18]

my coach always pulls the mids and attacks to run plays... so its d and our goalies, we seperate in half and try to hit each other with balls from half way down the field... if anyone asked wed say they were clearing drills

[Fulltoneguitar]

During april break about half the team went away, so there were about 10 of us varsity players and about 35 JV players, only the JV coach was there and he decided that the 10 varsity should play keep-away from the JV, and to make it exciting we had to dodge through them if we had the ball.

[MegaMid24]

ha its not really a wierd punishment or anything but we always walk over to unsuspecting jv players and say "hey thats a pretty sweet stick how does it throw?" and then they say oh its pretty good i like it and then you ask to see it and they give it to you and then you chuck it as far away as possible. then you go...your right it does throw good. and of course theres the usual walking around hitting sticks out of people hands and stupid stuff like that.

[laxmiddy92]

first story. our goalie coach is a marine by the name of mr lettau hes a badass too dont mess witrh him hes crazy as hell, well one of our freshman attackmen ripped one while lettau was walking in front of the goal and his stick was right in front of his family jewels and the shot took his stick right out of his hands and his eyes got all big and colton had to do 50 pushups because of it.

story 2. last year while doing groundball drills i was behind one of our biggest attackmen and he bent to get the ball and aas he stood up i jumped over his head hes about 6'2 adn im 6'1 and i tookh im down with the gullotine leg clothesline it was funny as hell and i got called spider monkey because of my acrobatics

story 3. we were doing fastbreaks and in between the fields our coach was training the starting goalie and i was aobut 40 yards behind the net and all of a sudden i see half the group dive away from me and i feel a ball impact me in the high thigh and i go down because my leg is numb.

story 4. freshman goalies are fresh meat, our backup goalie is fat and lethargic not to mention slow and lazy his nickname ended up being goldberg like the mighty ducks movie so during rpactice our top middie who shoots aobut low 80's rips at his legs to make bruises, to this day hes scared ****less of nate

[SoCald]

im probably the only person on here who can say this. BEACH LACROSSE! we practice like 1/4 a mile from the beach and it was our last practice of the season so...yea. o yea and kyle harrison was doing a demo for K18 and almost dome rocked me with a shot. also sean lindsey came to our practice and made our varsity defense look like *******...pretty funny

[TOP SH3LF]

My freshman year our coach used to have us do indian sprints around the perimeter of the field in 80-90 degree heat while he drove next to us on a gator (like a john deere golf cart) and said the nastiest stuff to try to get us to puke. "When you guys are done I'll make you all mayonnaise and onion milkshakes with some blue cheese and ketchup cake and wintergreen skoal sandwiches" When you feel like you're gonna yack, these words are more devastating then you could imagine.

Another time freshman year, after torrential downpours all day, it was actually really sunny, but the practice field was alllllll mud. So our coach had us doing 2 on 1 groundballs directly into the biggest puddle on the field. Guys racing to the ball and then not being able to find it. The next day we had to run windsprints because our locker room was dirty. Uhhhh? How can you expect a clean locker room after twenty 15 yr olds just rolled around in the mud for two hours?