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[con head777]

Well, as many of you may know, I am from Alabama where lax isn't very popular, and I'm trying to get as many of my friends into it as possible, and maybe form some kind of team. I have already gotten one friend into it and he now has a stick. How can I get more of my friends into it?Give me some suggestions, please.:bye

[26Easy]

Well im guessing your going to need an adult be the coach and then just get as many kids that you can get to go to a field or something and go through a lot of general things about lacrosse and see how many kids would wanna start a team

[TRELAX]

-Petition a local college team to give a free clinic.
-Ask your gym teacher to demonstrait BOYS LACROSSE (playing glax may turn the guys off to the sport forever)
-Be seen in public/by school/parks with your stick playign catch, doing stick tricks, playing wallball, ect. I was in the city (hoboken, nj) and a few people came up and asked what I was doing (wallball) and asked about the sport. Its such a great feeling turning people onto the game.
-Pop in a college rivals game on VHS next time friends are over on a boring day, like the 2004 d1 finals Navy/Cuse game. It was intense.

[gfgoalie28]

how many college teams are in alabama?

[TRELAX]

http://www.auburn.edu/lacrosse/
^ club Auburn

http://eteamz.active.com/alabamalacrosse/index.cfm?
^ club, Bama'

[BTlaxripper]

tell em how cool lax is!!! lol i have no clue, alabama huh? almost as weird as texas

[timmy]

Originally posted by TRELAX
http://www.auburn.edu/lacrosse/
^ club Auburn

http://eteamz.active.com/alabamalacrosse/index.cfm?
^ club, Bama'

you just named every college in alabama too.

what is the big sport in alabama right now (exludin c ock fighting:agree )? get the kids that aren't that good at that sport to come play lax. chances are they're probably not having that much fun sitting on the bench.

[TRELAX]

FOOTBALL

[shtbrkd00]

Originally posted by BTlaxripper
tell em how cool lax is!!! lol i have no clue, alabama huh? almost as weird as texas :cussing
its not like lax is that big in florida either


but the best way is to do with that guy from nj does.. just play around with it in areas people will see it (thats how i found out about it). the videos will seem boring to someone who has never played lax before, and trust me on that.

[Truebeast]

tell any of your friends that play football that it is a contact sport. I am sure it will draw atleast a few. that is partly what drew me to the game, even though lacrosse is not meant to be played like football, it will get some of them interested enough to find out more about the sport hopefully.

[timmy]

i told one of my football friends that. first game he tackled the kid with the ball.

[NickBritt]

Lacrosse is made up of football and soccer players.. just make them realize that there is no better sport than lacrosse and they will change sports...

[con head777]

hey thanks, and yea, football is HUGE! keep posting!

[WestSideLa X eR]

Ask the gym coach or your school to teach lacrosse in gym.
We had the school buy about a hundred fiddlesticks and we played womens lacrosse rules but still a ton of kids joined.

The hard part is to actually get them to play. If they play even once they'll be hooked

[bigOHlax]

lacrosse is more addictive then crack
i know a kid who just threw with one of my sticks once and wants to find a club to play on
just about every one who touches a stick gets hooked

[con head777]

cool....oh look at my new signature...ITS TIGHT!!!

[26Easy]

Ya I noticed its sick.As for starting a program try and get some of the better football kids to try and play lax so all the followers of the good kids will join them playing lax.

[con head777]

thnx

[Truebeast]

Originally posted by timmy
i told one of my football friends that. first game he tackled the kid with the ball.

:laugh :laugh :laugh :laugh

[spenny]

you dont say how old you are, but US Lacrosse offers grants to start programs

look here: http://www.uslacrosse.org/programs/index.phtml

also isnt 'bama in Tuscaloosa? go talk to the coach and see what help he can offer you

[con head777]

thanks for the link, and ill talk to the coach, but AL lax isnt a sponsored team...its a club team.

[8-ball]

every single person ive gotten to at least watch a game or throw with a stick is now either playing or watches it all the time. including weekly with the MLL right now. it isnt hard. id say get a group together first, play pick up games with each other, and go from there.

[Dan]

Hey con head, I think your sig is too big.

[spenny]

Originally posted by con head777
thanks for the link, and ill talk to the coach, but AL lax isnt a sponsored team...its a club team.

sponsorship doesnt matter. they still have a coach or coordinator who may be able to help you guys out.

[mx255]

START A CLUB THING. get people together that throw around and buy a cage to shoot on. Buy starter packs and mess areound with friends. I think that lacrosse plus has starter packs

[Petem0ss]

1. Be visibile with the stick, especially where people are active, like in a park where people run & play softball etc.
2. Talk to someone at Bama's club & see if they can come to your school & give a demonstration. You never know - maybe they have a player that is looking to get into education & they could pair up with your P.E. teacher & make it part of the P.E. cirriculum for a day.
3. Isn't Tuscaloosa reasonably close to Birmingham? I'd contact the Birmingham youth lax league & see if they know of anyone in Tuscaloosa. Or even the post-collegiate team in Birmingham (Magic City).

Bama's team? (http://eteamz.active.com/alabamalacrosse/index.cfm?)
BYLL (http://www.byll.org/)
Magic City club (http://eteamz.active.com/mclax/)


Good luck!

[wwlaxgoalie]

im from texas and alot of schools have teams, i mean ALOT, like more than 40%

sorry that sounded kinda rude, so i edited some words

[con head777]

yea thanks......and,i made my sig smaller.

[endoftheline]

tell them that its a game where you get to hit other people with metal sticks.Thats what got me hooked on the game

[pumba]

yh same!!

[Thrillhouse]

Tape a MLL game and invite your friends over to watch it.

[senor_k]

No offense...MLL is too boring to get you hooked. I play lacrosse and I can barely sit through an MLL game. Especially down south where most people have no idea about lacrosse, they're gonna say "Lacrosse is hella boring."

[TRELAX]

if there's anyway to make a copy of a tape, i'd copy you the cuse/hopkins semis from this year, its a nice game.