SO I'm working a camp..

[WHEELAX2]

Ok.. in a few weeks I will be running a camp.. it's been abut 5 years since my last one..

what are some of your favorite things about camp?? Drills, games, etc...

What did you dislike about camp?

what do you wish there was more or less of??


thanks

[Buzz1991]

I love shooting drills. I dislike the cost. I am working my first camp and I am excited. I suck at making complex sentences.

[Last Don]

I've been to, and worked several camps, and my favorite thing is to run the kids through some scrimmages and game scenarios, then take each one aside individually and work on personalized skills. This generally works better if you are working with another counselor/coach.

I'm an LSM, so I generally try to partner with an attackman or offensive middie to run my groups at camp.

Also, kids LOVE to scrimmage. I've found that the teams I've coached (midget) would rather scrimmage than do anything else. I have some fun drills that they like, but they just want to be put in game scenarios.

[BuckWyld]

keep it loose and fun.

[cloo24]

brave heart is SICK for a tiebreaker in inter camp games. if you don't know what it is here's a little tunthrough. Its full field one V one lax (2 goalies) first to score wins start with a faceoff

[somrandomguy]

brave heart is SICK for a tiebreaker in inter camp games. if you don't know what it is here's a little tunthrough. Its full field one V one lax (2 goalies) first to score wins start with a faceoff

Breaveheart is awesome. You have to get people really into it, and everyone sticks their helmets on top of their sticks and lifts them up and starts shouting and everything else. It's crazy. .

[D-middie9]

Most kids don't like to run (imagine that). Scrimmaging, as mentioned is always fun. Some kids like one-on-one drills while others don't. So don't make every drill a "beat this guy" drill.

[bloodilax977]

I, and most kids I play with at camps, love scrimmages. The camp revolves around the scrimmages for us.

[DukeLax368]

Ill be at that camp :thumbsup: I like scrimmages and stuff too, but I also come to camp to learn something. I'm also bringing some of my teammates, a few of whom have never played before, so they're going to need some help.

[gigo567]

brave heart is SICK for a tiebreaker in inter camp games. if you don't know what it is here's a little tunthrough. Its full field one V one lax (2 goalies) first to score wins start with a faceoff
Yeah, you need brave heart. We did that at a tournament, so awesome. Pretty much it counts on the face-off.

[atacklax]

Have a tournament. It doesn't even have to be full teams. Just some 5 on 5's or something.

[NYlaxLI]

I like candle lit dinners and long walks on the beach...errr I mean scrimmages and 1 v 1 the scrimmage is the highlight of the camp day.

[nptlaxgoalie121]

well i enjoyed the shooting demo when i went to million. Manly b/c mark took all the goalies out and he had all of the counslers shoot on us. As a consler i like and camper i always liked coachs vs kids games those were fun as well. oh and ps bravehearts are sick. except when you as a goalie run up field and they tell you as a goalie you cant score to win that kind sucked.

[raykessler]

lacrosse dodgeball.... tennis balls, only helmets and gloves, oh so much fun


SO MUCH FUN

[trlax05-08]

I know from going to the Princeton lax camp that the one thing that helped me alot as an attackman was that the camp seperated into stations and every day your attackman and middies on your scrimmage team would go for about 15 min a station and work on drills and moves.

Example coach A will work the face dodge station and team A's and B's attack and midfield would go to him. Coach B would be working with defence of team A and B on sliding. Coach C would work with attck and middies from team C and F on give and go's. Coach D worked with team C & F defence on keeping the offender in front of you. While coach E and F worked with both attack mid and defence from team D and E on 1v1 (helping meaning after each kid goes tell them something they could have done after they did a move or what they did wrong they shouldnt do *hanging stick* or point out to the defence that the kid was hanging his stick after he made a dodge and that he could have had it.

Also i liked the idea of the camp that it was a non-hitting camp preventing many injuries that could have happened and to teach the kids how to really play defence and tell the kids "Look if you can kill a kid then go up to him give him a little bump and say i just saved your life by not hitting you"

pm me if you have any ?'s about this

[tiplax]

scrimages, contests like fastest shot, most accruate(corners) and farthest(sp) shot, from mid-line. most importantly keep it fun and loose but not to structured

[middieman1]

When I went to a camp when I was younger we did this sweet game where everybody got a ball and had to run from one side of the field to the other while the counselors tried to stick check the ball out of our sticks. If you drop the ball you have to help the counselors stick check the kids running.
What's the age range of the kids?

[the next 'one']

i love scrimmaging. at the camp i went to over last summer, which was my favorite one, it was my favorite thing. another great thing we did was at the last day we had contests where we could win gear. like shot contests and accuracy contests divided up into age groups.

[westlakelax17]

not alot of yelling and not alot of running. only like a warm up run. Alot of scimaging

[rosslax37]

lacrosse dodgeball.... tennis balls, only helmets and gloves, oh so much fun


SO MUCH FUN


I agree with the above statement 100% i was at a week long camp for about 5-6 hours a day and only about 20 people there so we ran out of things to do fast. Because of this we would do ball lines right when we got there then played dodgeball the whole 5 hours the last 2 days.

[manup5183]

i like to get every thing i can get out of a camp. i always ask questions and love it when i get individual lesson where i get to work on whatever i think im doing weak in with some one who can truly help me. thats just me though, alot of kids just like to scrimage.

[smooth87]

Don't get me wrong, I loved the scrimmaging and the brave hearts and the teachings -but what really stuck in my mind was the tradition. I went to Army for 2 years (my cousin was there at that time so I wouldn't get homesick) and about every 2 or 3 days we would have a speaker come in and talk about Army lax, how lax was started, etc and those "lessons" really got me intrested in the game which might be the reason I'm still playing.

[laxpro]

Princeton. It is a drill. Pm me, b/c I'm to lazy to explain

[CtLax]

have shooting drills and get a radar gun. Kids like seeing how fast they can shoot

[ProFile]

I ran a camp a few years ago and here are some of the things I thought about/did.
1. If it is for younger kids, keep it fun
2. Older kids teach them more aobut the fast break/1v1/man up etc...
3. Don't send them running fi they do something wrong.
4. Water, Water, Water. Keep them hydrated so they dont droop out by the end.
5. Yes CTLAX Radar gun work great. I remember when radar guns made me so happy.
6. [younger guys]- Sharks and Minnos teaching them to keep their sticks up.
I'll edit this post once I think of some more.
Good Luck.