Angela Duckworth, Author of Grit, creates a brilliant formula that just might explain how we go from Talent to Achievement.
Learn more about Angela here!
Development
The FLG Digital Playbook
A great new feature we rolled out to our Select Player’s this year is a Digital Playbook.
Here’s how it works:
- FLG shoots videos of different components in our playbook at the FLG Offices
- FLG uploads those videos to our YouTube channel under the category “FLG Digital Playbook“
- FLG emails specific videos to our families through Team Snap each week depending on what we are working on in practice that week. Additionally, we send those same videos to our coaches to make sure they have a complete understanding of what we’re looking to teach that week.
- FLG players now go into practice with a basic understanding of what we are trying to learn that week and FLG coaches go into practice knowing exactly what and how to teach those concepts.
It’s that simple! Hopefully you can do that same in your program. For questions about how we further develop our athletes and coaches, drop a comment below…
Open Clear – Using The Formation
The main points in using the formation to clear the ball:
- Substituting through the box
- Stretching the field
- Vocabulary
- Right up!
- Re-direct!
- Over!
- Understanding off-side responsibility
Learn more by watching our YouTube video here:
The Five Pillars
The KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) was started with just 57 5th graders in a Houston District Classroom. Led by Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, this class proved to be the foundation for a public school unlike anything you’ve seen before. Frustrated with the low graduation rates, lack of attendance, ineffective teaching techniques, and lack of direction; Feinberg and Levin started an intensive program that became a breading ground for successful students of all ages. At the core of KIPP’s model are five pillars:
- High Expectations
- Choice and Commitments
- More Time
- Power to Lead
- Focus on Results
These pillars have given rise to a movement for inner-city and minority youth. Thinking anything is possible, students have a more optimistic approach towards their futures. With 57 students in 1994, KIPP has opened it’s first elementary and High Schools tens years late. Learn more about KIPP right here!
The Red Bandana
“Tom Rinaldi’s The Red Bandana could very well become one of those classic books that are handed down through generations, for more than any book I have read in a very long time it convincingly tells the story of how great men and women become great–how cultural, community, and spiritual drives can develop that inner character that will make the world a better place. It is all found here in these pages–the intellectual and moral strength of a close and loving family, determination, guts and the sense of service that brings alive this memorable an beautifully written story of the 9/11 death of Welles Crowther. This book will always be set aside in my house to illustrate the art of writing, but mostly to honor the life of this courageous man– volunteer firefighter, champion athlete, well-positioned stock trader–a true friend and loyal son whose inner inspiration was to become a New York City firefighter. Every first responder will want to read this book every high school ad college English teacher will want to assign it and every thoughtful reader will give it to someone they love.” -Dennis Smith, retired FDNY firefighter and author of Report from Engine Co. 82
X’s & O’s with FLG
X’s & O’s with FLG is a line of instructional video series that is designed to teach the rational and the details behind what we teach and use here at FLG from an X’s & O’s standpoint. – Eric Dunne (Director, FLG Lacrosse)
Enjoy our first video, Open Clear – The Breakout
The Rage to Master
That’s powerful, the rage to master.
When I first heard Professor Ellen Winner’s phrase, rage to master, I thought it meant:
Burning desire to perfect a specific craft or trade.
Winner defines rage to master as she explains what makes someone a genius, saying,
It’s an intense and obsessive interest, an ability to focus sharply, experiencing a state of flow when learning in their domain — optimal states in which they focus intently and lose sense of the outside world.
As it relates to sports, a key in obtaining the rage to master, is developing an obsessive interest.
Fascinating, but, how can one do this? For me, an emphasis on interest relates to the importance of developing a passion for whatever it is you wish to master. Loving what you do is a great way to maintain an interest and develop that burning passion.
A great message for not only the future geniuses reading this post, but one for all parents or youth coaches. If you wish to have your child master a sport, craft, trade, instrument, or whatever it may be; make sure they are having fun. If they are having fun, they will gain interest. Once they have interest, they can work to develop an intense and obsessive rage to master their area of expertise. #LoveTheGame
