My Running The Template seminar is available for coaches/organizations who want to book me for Summer 2024.
This seminar is designed to help coaches run more efficient and effective practices. It’s based around the information I share in The First 12 Practices. In many ways it’s a coaching clinic disguised as a player camp. See more details below, but the basic concept is that I’ll run a group of players through either 3 (for a 1-day event) or 6 (for a 2-day event) practices and explain to the coaches what I’m doing and why. (I do have a coaches-only option, see below for more details.)
In the Organization - Mechanics - Skill framework, this seminar is about:
80% Organization
20% Skill
I will get into little-to-no specific Mechanics teaching in this seminar. These concepts will work with almost any offense or defensive system you might be running, because most of it (the 80%) is macro level about how to get more reps and how to get more out of your reps. There’s also a smaller portion (the 20%) that’s more micro-level about some of the skill-teaching techniques that I like (Goldilocks, External Cueing, etc)
By the end of this seminar, you’ll be able to run a more efficient practice. You’ll also see how you can generate a virtually-endless string of similar-but-not-quite-the-same practices by making small alterations to the core drills.
Formats
There’s 2 general formats that work for this seminar:
Demo Team. I’ll work with 1 (max of 3, if you have 3 courts) team for a full day in an intensive fashion. Coaches learn alongside the players and I’ll get some coaches on the court coaching alongside me to work on their eye. Since the format is to show coaches a 3-practice wave, the day will have 3 waves. For the players, it will be approximately 9:00 - 11:00, 12:30 - 2:30, 3:30 - 5:30.
Coaches-Only. For various reasons (possibly including NCAA recruiting calendars), we can do a coaches-only seminar without a demo team. In this case, we still do need a demo “team” of at least a few coaches who are capable of getting on the court and running through some of the concepts and drills. In this case, I do a bit less on-court and a bit more classroom and I go into Tournament Review and Training Block Planning material that I won’t cover in the Demo Team format. Coaches-only formats will only be 1-day events. I can cover all of the information in 1 day because the on-court sessions are shorter.
Logistics and Other Formats
Here’s what the cost looks likes like for the different formats:
1-Day Demo Team seminar. Cost: $1200 + travel. This is ideal for a high school program where the players all chip in a bit or the booster club pays for it. This format works best right after you’ve selected your varsity and JV teams. I run through everything you need to have a great season and hit the ground running. You can keep it closed to only your coaches or you can open it up to other coaches and charge them to defray some of your costs.
1.5-Day Demo Team seminar. Cost $1800 + travel. This is ideal for a medium-sized club with 10-20 coaches in attendance. I’ll run through all the practice planning and logistics with the coaches the night before, so they can see and learn the general outline. Then, they can see it in action on-court.
2-Day Demo Team seminar. Cost $2400 + travel. This is actually a really nice format for an ambitious high school program, especially if you’re within 4 hours of Wilmington, NC, because I can drive up there morning-of (if you’re 3+ hours, then we’ll probably start at 10:00 instead of 9:00 and go an hour later) and then your travel costs are pretty low. If you run this seminar right after you’ve chosen varsity players, you’re going to be able to launch into your season at 100mph.
2.5-Day Demo Team seminar. Cost $3000 + travel. This is good for a bigger club with a lot of coaches or where you want to see the nuances between age groups. For example, on Saturday I can run through a 3-practice wave of U-14s and on Sunday I can run through a 3-practice wave with U-17s.
1-Day Coaches-Only seminar. Cost $1200 + travel. If you’re a club director with a good network of contacts in your area, this is probably the best way to get me into your gym for free. If you open it up to coaches outside your club and charge them something like $120/coach + $80 per additional coach, you should be able to get 10-15 coaches from outside your club to attend and then the cost to you and your coaches is negligible.
I may be able to do this in an evening-only format 3 nights in a row. Contact me to see if the travel and other logistics work for that.