Players watching lacrosse on you tube

[laxer6]

Every year on the youth team I coach we get new kids but this year was something new. All the new kids I got had you tubed lacrosse before their first practice which is great but on the first day they were already talking about Mike Powell tricks and fighting. Now of course all coaches want to steer clear of both these things. After I got home I searched lacrosse on you tube and the top of the page was all highlights of hitting and NLL fights, at the bottom of course was a shooting drill with Kyle Harrison. I just want to give everyone a heads up that the kids are you tubing lacrosse and we could probably use this to our advantage. Inside Lacrosse has instructional videos on there, we just have to keep them away from watching the behind the back passes and fights.

[JohnsHopkins16]

dont get me wrong, the highlight reels are fun to watch occasionally, but not for players who do not understand the sport. MP's flips are not part of the average game. Kyle Harrisons videos are very informative and it would behoove anyone to watch them.

[QBYattackmen15]

i watch kyle harrison as much as possible haa. and if i do watch MP, i watch his 'Cuse highlights because those are fantastic. But my favorite vids are here on tv.insidelacrosse.com because they just..i dunno i just really enjoy them
you cans earch for pretty much anything and ti will come up. its a great resource.

[MaKiMaKi13]

Well I wouldn't steer them completely away from BTB passes but not until there good enough to use them when they should actually be used. But I agree you should turn them in the direction of www.laxtube.com along with e-lacrosse and tv.insidelacrosse.com

[gripitandripit]

I think anything that encourages creativity and improvisation can't be much of a negative. I would obviously discourage the use of it in games and such, but I know I wouldn't have a behind the back pass/shot that I can count on if I hadn't started practicing it when I was a young guy.

[QBYattackmen15]

Grip it has a good point. I really encourage my players(i do coach a youth lacrosse team) to get creative and play the game with the styale they get themselves not oens they see on youtube. I mean if you watch a vid of Mikey powell when he was at cuse, by all means try to get some type of educational edge from it, try to mimic his moves but give them your own unique style. And at the end of the youth practices i always try to do the mikey powell flip and BTB shot haha.

[tlaing22]

mikey powell is a tremendous athlete but the problem with kids right now is that they look at the stick tricks, flips and other such "MP highlights" that are availible. It seems the HS and MS kids I coach all wanna do around the worlds while blindfolded dodging bullets from jesus himself instead of hitting the wall and making themselves better players. I believe the BTB shot is important but if a kid can't catch and throw, what's the point?

I hope that kids will realize that MP isn't a HS player, and he is a professional lacrosse player. They need the basics before they need to ridiculas.

ps. I know my english is horrible and my spelling is even worse, but it's been a long day.....

[WHEELAX2]

Every year on the youth team I coach we get new kids but this year was something new. All the new kids I got had you tubed lacrosse before their first practice which is great but on the first day they were already talking about Mike Powell tricks and fighting. Now of course all coaches want to steer clear of both these things. After I got home I searched lacrosse on you tube and the top of the page was all highlights of hitting and NLL fights, at the bottom of course was a shooting drill with Kyle Harrison. I just want to give everyone a heads up that the kids are you tubing lacrosse and we could probably use this to our advantage. Inside Lacrosse has instructional videos on there, we just have to keep them away from watching the behind the back passes and fights.

Unfortunately for many field purists, behind the back passes and fights are misunderstood. It's unfortunate that some value and respect isn't given to the Canadian/Native game. I am an american, traditional-field player who has recently embraced the indoor game and found it to be much more pure and beautiful than my native field game (my personal opinion of course). I firmly believe that it is important for all lacrosse players to understand that there are many forms of the game, and many different ways to go about playing the game. Although, I do see your point about not wanting to teach young players certain aspects of the game.

Generally speaking, most players my age would suggest that players like Paul and Gary Gait inspired their play and drove them to get better; watching these great players fueled my, and many other player's passion for the game. Though they were great field players, they were much better indoor and box players, so I would never suggest anyone not watch the indoor game and not learn from it. I firmly believe that the skills used in the indoor game can make an american field player exponentially better at the field game.

Aside from that, the roots of the game encourage personal and spiritual growth, and I know from my own experience that teaching myself to perform certain tricks, or certain difficult skills really helped me gain confidence not only as a lacrosse player, but as a person. I don't know of many coaches who, themselves haven't attempted a behind the back shot or pass, etc... sometime in their playing career.

[OldPtboBoy]

WHEELAX2 without any misinterpretation I wish I wrote that.

It is unfortunate that proponents of the two games see very little middle ground. To look at the Canadian Team in the last Field Games one might have thought that we fielded a half box team. But they were just great lacrosse players. Not Box or Field, just great lacrosse players. For one to translate to the next is not unbelievable. Casey Powell is an excellent transitional example. There are a number of others but I wont go into that now.

Kudda is a great resource for field players. (search lacrosse) As is LAX-TV for a taste of box. The game doesn't belong to anyone's mentality. It is a wide spanning scope waiting to be discovered. And whether it be stick tricks, fundamentals, game film, historical content, coaching, interviews, pocket maintenance or just general knowledge there are a plethora of sites available online that will give anyone the opportunity to delve deeper into this challenging and spiritual game.

At it's Roots....Tradition....at it's best.... Invention..... Lacrosse it's a hell of a game.

[gripitandripit]

Good points oldboy. I really don't differentiate between the two games either. Yes, they're two very different styles of lacrosse, but they're both lacrosse. Inside of both games you see very different styles of play from player to player and team to team and nobody makes an issue of it, why should it be any different between the two games? At the core of both field and box are the same exact principles and fundamentals and a player that's great at either will also excel at the other and it's been proven by player after player that make the jump. The bottom line is that both games allow athletic, creative players with rock solid fundamentals to excel. Will certain skills be more paramount in one game over the other? Of course, but great players are great because they're able to improvise and adapt to any situation, opponent or game.