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Coaching Outside the Box: Applying the 20/80 Rule to practice planning - Jonathan Basti - Sacred Heart University

Using new ideas to teach the fundamentals of your program

The 20/80 Rule

• The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes roughly 80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes
• Everything you do has a purpose, what is the focus for each drill, each practice, each week
• The same drill can have multiple purposes
• Concept based vs Set based
  • Order out of chaos
  • comfortable being uncomfortable

The Rondo (Lacrosse Style)

• The rondo is the basic mindset of any offensive or defensive principle
• a soccer drill
• They have taken the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu5sIKJ1Guk soccer drills

5/6 Lines Perimeter passing A realistic stickwork drill that is meant to simulate actual dodging hard, clearing space for the ball carrier, moving the ball on the run

• players will move the ball to every other line, but will run to the adjacent lines
• The adjacent guy will clear through/set picks to the line where the ball comes from
• You can add a 6th line to simulate the action of a crease guy or "open" concepts

4 on 0 ground ball drill

• Everyone starts at the top right, 3 guys hustle to adjacent spot, first guy in line picks it up
• get ground ball, move it, move it, move it, shoot
• Teaches the other 3 guys to get into a passing lane and finish
• First pass must be adjacent, next passes can skip etc
• Rotate at each corner of the field and continue

3v2 or 4v3 2 man drill teach player 2 man concepts while working on GB's and stickwork under pressure

• Have the team split up into two colors
• Setup in 3 lines around the cage (at the 20 meters)
• Coach is setup with balls at the top of the box
• GB is rolled out to either of the 3 lines
• You then run a front side 2 man and get the ball to the back side ASAP
• last guy to touch is out and the other 2 drop back in on defense
• Can do this as a pregame drill

Rondo Drill to transition drill

• Sacred Heart calls this the Loyola drill
• Have goalie, 3 attack, 3 defense in goal
• At the midline, send in 3 v 2 or 3 v 3 middies, pass the ball around in the middle, hit the coach with the ball, coach starts the transition into 6 v 5 or 6 v 6