Mobile Coach: Teach Defensive Communication and Movement
The purpose of defense is to stop the ball. To do that, players must possess both individual and team skills to work cohesively to limit scoring opportunities and gain possession.
Your defense needs to be able to recognize where the ball is (and where they are in relation to the ball), react to their player and communicate where they are (and what is happening) to their teammates — including the goalie.
To practice this, we implement one-on-one and double-team scenarios to prepare players for game situations.
Do your players perform wonderfully in one-on-one defense, but when it comes to a scrimmage or other game-like scenario for team defense, they fall apart? Do your players understand where to go, but forget to communicate and struggle with the movement?
The 5v5 Line Dance helps you and your players focus on team defense. Find this and other games in the revamped USA Lacrosse Mobile Coach app available via the Apple and Google stores and on desktop at mobilecoach. usalacrosse.com.
5V5 LINE DANCE
The 5v5 Line Dance provides the foundation for players to better understand movement, communication and shifting on defense. Every player has a role and a responsibility — whether they are guarding the player with the ball or not.
SKILLS
SETUP
GAME
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One line is offense (O) and the other line is defense (X) — facing each other.
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The O’s pass the ball between players at a slow enough pace for the defense to communicate and move. Skip passes are allowed.
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The line X’s call out “ball” when on ball, “help” when one person away from the ball and “slide” when two people away from the ball.
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Goalie behind the X’s communicate directions.
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Rotate offense and defense.
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Defense should all shift towards the player with the ball — like the ball is a magnet.
PROGRESSIONS
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Introduce the game without sticks using a gym ball or just a lacrosse ball — and with everyone stationary (defense just communicating as the ball is passed).
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Allow defense to move/shift to where the ball is.
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Add sticks.
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Double-team the ball.
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Add one or two more players to make it equal to the men’s or women’s game numbers.
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Put more space between the cones.
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Set up defense around the crease — just like in a game (continue with slow passes so defense can shift properly).
CONCEPTS TO TEACH/REINFORCE
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See the ball and your player — at all times.
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Communicate where you are on the field to help your fellow defenders.
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Listen to the communication and direction of your goalie.
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Adjust and shift based on where the ball is.
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Lauren Davenport is the manager of training and performance science for USA Lacrosse and assistant women’s lacrosse coach at Notre Dame of Maryland University.
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How to teach team defense
What’s up y’all. I am currently a senior in highschool in NY and am on my way to play D1 lacrosse in the fall. My school is a very small team and only a handful of guys play any type of club/offseason lacrosse. For the majority of my time in the whole lacrosse program in my tow, team defense is rarely touched on (slide packages, man down, zone). The only defense we are taught is man-to-man and our only advice is to “not get beat”. This is the major setback for my team. Our team is full of the toughest dudes in our county and even section but we have had no success with an over .500 season. However, this year is our year and i know it. I can play and succeed in almost every defensive package a coach throws at me because of my high level club team and the coaches there. The problem is in my school, 3/6 players on the defense have no idea how to slide from the crease as it is the most basic and most important defense to play. I have taken it upon myself to teach the guys on my own but the coaches don’t worry about anything other than the offense so we have no drills to really get the package stuck in the defenses heads.
I was wondering what drills i could implement as a captain of the team to teach the most basic defense from start to finish. Im talking anything, chalkboard, scrimmage, no offense drills, i mean anything. Thank y’all! Please leave suggestions below.
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Yesterday, in the gym at Butlerova 4, Department of Youth Policy and student sports club “Kazan Yulbarsy” together with the Russian Lacrosse Federation held an open master class and the championship of the Kazan Federal University in the most unusual, at the moment, sport – lacrosse. Students from all institutes and the Faculty of Law tried their hand at 6v6 lacrosse, which is played according to simplified rules in the gym. The guys learned the basic elements and tried themselves in the game. But first things first. A month ago, the Russian Lacrosse Federation got in touch with our sports club and offered to hold a master class in this sport, and then a mini-tournament for three teams to try out the game mode.
Recall that lacrosse is a traditional collegiate game originally from the United States, reminiscent of a mixture of American football, field hockey and, in part, baseball. The bottom line is that players in ammunition and with special clubs resembling nets must throw a ball (similar in size and weight to a tennis ball) into the opponents’ goal. The goal is similar in size to a standard bandy goal. It is worth noting that the equipment of the players and the general rules of the match also resemble the traditional “Russian hockey” (bandy).
“Kazan Yuldbarsy” and FLR agreed to hold the event on April 17, in the sports hall at Butlerova 4, and all interested teams were invited to participate through the official social networks of “Kazan Yulbars”. As noted by Dmitry Khamin, President of the 6×6 Lacrosse Federation, the main task of the FLR is interaction with new regions and the development of Lacrosse throughout Russia. At the moment, teams from Yaroslavl, Moscow and St. Petersburg participate in the League for the Development of this sport. This type of master class was held in Kazan for the first time. “Kazan Yulbarsy” became one of the pioneers of this sport among the students of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The mini-tournament was attended by teams of the Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics. N.I. Lobachevsky, the Institute of International Relations and the team “Kazan Yulbarsy” . The game was attended by 5 field players and one goalkeeper, as well as two participants were on the bench, in case of substitutions. First, the representatives of the FLR showed the main elements of the game and exercises: passing technique, movement with sticks, throws and shots on goal. After that, the teams played a classic tournament – each with each, where they revealed the best lacrosse players of Kazan University. According to the results of the tournament, the bronze medals were won by the activists of “Kazakh Yulbarsov”, silver medals were won by the IMO students, while the IMiM students won.
After the mini-tournament, various competitions were held, where each player from any team could become the owner of valuable prizes – branded bottles or T-shirts from the Russian Lacrosse Federation. “Kazan Yulbars” for the first time in the history of the university and the student sports community of Kazan held a lacrosse master class, making the first step towards learning a new unusual sport for the Republic of Tatarstan. And we hope that this step will be only the first of many. In the meantime, the final types of the Spartakiad of students and graduate students, as well as preparation for the participation of the Kazan Yulbars teams in the All-Russian Superfinal of the ASSK Championship of Russia, are next in line. Go in for sports, be healthy and do not forget to join the social networks of Kazan Yulbars https://vk.