Pre Season Mini Camp, this is a no-pressure, focused learning environment for any player heading into the club season. Our goals are to build the foundation of your game, introduce you to simple drills you’re likely to encounter at any club practice, provide some structured playing opportunities, and allow you to make the connections that could become your new team.
Mini Camp is a 4-week course starting May 4 and ending June 1 with no events Memorial Day weekend, Sunday nights from 7-9 at the Gabe Catalfo fields in Berkeley, right down the street from the Gilman fields we’re all used to. Each night will follow the same format: warmup, drill reinforcing the previous lesson, teaching and demonstration of the next skill followed by a drill for that skill, ending with up to an hour of ultimate. These sessions will be led by myself with the assistance of volunteer coaches from local teams.
We are starting with the absolute fundamentals of ultimate. This might seem too basic but one thing I realized this year is that the majority of you don’t ever get to run drills in a non-tryout environment. So whether you’re the player looking to take the step out of Rec League or a college player looking to enter the club scene, no matter where you are in your development your mark can always be a little better, your throws a little more consistent, and your defense a little stickier.
How does this relate to Ultimate for All’s bigger picture? These lessons will be the first four steps of our Player Development track. We will be adding to it throughout the year and hopefully next spring we’ll be able to offer a much broader range of the track, allowing players to play/learn at exactly their current level. If we are going to successfully train hundreds of players, it can’t all be done in a coach’s head, we need a systematic, data-driven solution to player development. This is what Mr. Morley will be working on for us this year.
So, if you are looking for more than just league games this spring, sign up for Pre Season Mini Camp when registration opens, hopefully sometime this weekend. That’s all for this week, I’ll be back soon with details on how this program is going to support the creation of new teams this summer.
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