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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Reschke on August 04, 2008, 10:22:06 AM
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Well today begins the last season of youth football for my oldest son. This will be his 6th season playing and his team is defending their three consecutive championships now. This one will be the toughest season yet since they start school football next year and there were about 70 kids that registered in our small town for the three 6th grade teams. Next year there will be close to 150 that turn out for 7th grade football.
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Good luck to your son in his final year. :aok Our "5-a-week-2 hours a night" practices started last Friday. "Football is our life from July to November" began last month with two full contact football camps, each 5 days/nights long.
Gordon can play until 14 years old (he's 12 now). He may play ball for the school too but I'm trying to talk him out of that. (Their practice is 2:30 to 4:00 every day) Junior football up here is 10 times more competitivie than middle school football (7 and 8th grade), so most kids stay in Junior football until age 14.
Are you coaching this year?
We're shooting two teams for Portrait and Team pics this year in a couple of weeks, that's 550 football players and Cheerleaders! Then Sports Action photography the rest of the year.
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Good luck to your son Reschke! :aok
My son began two a days today. I'm sure this morning wasn't bad, but we're supposed to be at 103 degrees here today by 4:00 PM when the second practice starts. :eek:
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Last year to coach the big boys then it starts all over again next year with my second son who turns 6 in May. Today we are supposed to be up around 100 as well and it has been raining every afternoon between 3pm and 5pm and it will still be up over 95 @ 6pm when we start but the humidity will make it seem like 100+.
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Wow. Both of my kids' have been in full gear practice since last week, and have been in pre-season team workouts' since March, if you guys can believe that. It's been a long summer.
My oldest boy is starting his last year before High School, But my youngest still has the whole ladder to climb. It's a been a hot summer, but they all make it through with plenty of water. Good luck to everyone who's got a boy out there on the field, hope you all have great seasons'. :salute
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It's supposed to get hot here this week, up to 90 deg.! (From our avg of 75 deg summers) :D :devil
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My kids' wanted to stay in Oregon when they went up to visit My Mom and Dad this summer. Right on the coast in Brookings' It was only about 80-85 at the hottest. Down here, we had over 2 weeks' over 100, and it's still about 98 and up in the afternoons.
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My kids' wanted to stay in Oregon when they went up to visit My Mom and Dad this summer. Right on the coast in Brookings' It was only about 80-85 at the hottest. Down here, we had over 2 weeks' over 100, and it's still about 98 and up in the afternoons.
Oiy. I hate hot weather. 2 weeks over 100 is unimaginable.
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My oldest played Lacrosse all spring and into the summer so he is good to go physically. He didn't have his mind into it until the other day since we are playing in our biggest division @ a max weight of 130#. So with that said he was worried since all these other kids on the line with him are coming in at 120-135 and he is at 96.
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Lacrosse is an excellent "Offseason" sport, like wrestling. What is funny is when football season starts, how many kids are out of shape from playing only baseball!
My kid thanks me every year for pushing him year around when he starts football because he's in peak condition when it starts.
This is my son's weight division below: He is 12 and 122 lbs. (5' 3") He'll lose those 2 lbs. before weigh-ins ;)
10 year olds 111 lbs. - 140 lbs.
11 year olds 101 lbs. - 130 lbs.
12 year olds 91 lbs. - 120 lbs.
13 year olds No minimum - 110 lbs.
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Incidently, this is a great offseason training program for kids at the YMCA. It's called the "Strong Kids Strength Conditioning" program and your child must be 10 years of age. After that, they can work out on free weights under parental supervision.
Yes, kids can lift free weights, the key is NOT HEAVY free weights since their tendons and bone plates are still developing and haven't fused together yet.
He's been lifts weights 3x a week year around except during football season for 2 years now. This spring he had a growth spurt combined with his training, going from 109 last Dec to 122 last Friday. It's all muscle! :)
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I don't advocate heavy weight training for kids until they get into puberty and that depends on the child. Light or low weights with high reps is ok since you are working mainly on form and training them to get better. I wish I knew what I teach these kids now when I was going through youth football.
BTW this team is down to 21 players all from last seasons squad; but numbers are up over all the other teams and in our league.
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Well, here is an update from this end: G-man made first string Offense (Left Guard) after 2 full contact practices. I'm pretty sure it had to do with taking the defensive tackle and driving him into the linebacker on a couple of 5 vs 4 drills. ;)
Unfortunately, he had to move up to another team because of his weight and age, and the team he moved up to had returning RB's and Fullbacks. This happened to him last year as well, but he blocks so well (fullback by nature) that they have started him on the line the last two years.
This week they'll pick the defense. Linebacker is his "natural" position and I have no doubt he'll make first string D.
This team started with 45 players, we're down to 41 now.
How's things going for your guys at this point?
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We started with 21 and we will go into the season with 21 pending injuries and any kids that move in from other areas. We started putting the offense in today and we are going with what has kept us in shape the last few years...the flexbone (same as AF Academy) only we are tossing in all kinds of play action out of it now to get the QB outside the tackles. We will face off against several 5-3 defenses that will try to blitz us every play to throw our pass protection schemes off and to mix up the zone style blocking for running plays. Too bad we have our complete o-line back from the last 4 seasons and these kids will call the other teams defensive alignment and make a check call at the line for the QB to audible to another play. It's good to have smart kids that think quick and can block.
My son is back at starting left tackle again and we returned everyone from last season 3 peat championship team that was a contributor and put in the long hours and came back improved from the off season. He is also going to be one of our rotation of 6 defensive linemen that we will bring in every 2 plays. We are running a 3-4 base defense and will mix it up into a 3-3-5 setup depending on what the opposing teams are going to do. Down here a lot of teams start implementing the high school offenses at this 11-12 y/o age group since they go into middle school ball at 7th grade and the head coaches for the high schools mandate the same offense from then on. We will start facing several spread offenses this coming season and only one pro style offense that will try to run the I on us. For that team we will go to a 6 man front and blitz/stunt/twist them till they can't see straight.
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Thanks for the update! The only thing I've seen so far from this new coach of ours (who has coached this Rough Rider weight group for 28 years) is that he runs a 4-4 defense.
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My son's high school has a new coach. They've started running the spread offense this year. He loves it so far, he moved up to varsity this year as a junior. there's a senior QB in front of him, but he'll be spliting playing time with. When not playing QB he'll be playing wide reciever on
offense, and safety on defense. Looking like a fun year ahead.
This is my last son to play at this school. His three older brothers all played on this team, and his sister was a cheerleader.
It's hard to believe it will all be over after next years season. :(
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My son's high school has a new coach. They've started running the spread offense this year. He loves it so far, he moved up to varsity this year as a junior. there's a senior QB in front of him, but he'll be spliting playing time with. When not playing QB he'll be playing wide reciever on
offense, and safety on defense. Looking like a fun year ahead.
This is my last son to play at this school. His three older brothers all played on this team, and his sister was a cheerleader.
It's hard to believe it will all be over after next years season. :(
Take lots of pictures! I've been saving his old jerseys and memoribilia over the past 4 years.
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I am getting to the point where we are going to have to start boxing all of our oldest son's stuff up soon so we can make room for the next one coming up.
Here in 7th grade there will be close to 150 kids that show up for 7th grade football next year and they will not try to run off any of them. My son and several others have been talking about not playing next year since the competition really kicks back up to high gear starting in 8th grade football and they are down to 40-50 players...most of those are the kids that actually played in 7th grade.
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Do you guys have "no cut" teams in Middle school football or HS football? No Cut sucks...for competition that is.
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They don't in 7th and 8th grade but in 9th, 10th and 11th they do have a JV squad. The reason for the drop off in numbers between 7th and 8th is due to lack of playing time at the 7th grade team since the coach will only work on a group of about 30-50 kids as true players in 7th grade. The rest of these kids are just there since they haven't played before that year for whatever reason.
Our high school is a 6A school which is the biggest classification and they will put 100+ on the sidelines on Friday night and of that group only about 40-50 kids (mostly juniors and seniors) will see the field for anything other than warm ups.
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In peewee football it's no cut. In Jr high 7th and 8th grade I don't think they actually cut, but they don't play everybody. JV and Varsity is cut city. It also depends on how big the school is. The bigger schools cut way more players than the small town schools of course.
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I don't think they truly have a "cut" group here in our school. They just run the whiners/complainers/losers off the field during spring training practices, preseason summer workouts and two-a-day practices.
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In peewee football it's no cut. In Jr high 7th and 8th grade I don't think they actually cut, but they don't play everybody. JV and Varsity is cut city. It also depends on how big the school is. The bigger schools cut way more players than the small town schools of course.
That's pretty much identical to our system as well.
In the Junior football system (pee wee), every coach tells the parents that they play their best 11 on both sides of the ball, but all kids get a chance to play in games, during a '5th quarter' at half time. They play 20 minutes then (it doesn't count for anything except experience and playing time)
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The start of high school football is officially underway here in Oklahoma. The small town I work for has a tradition. On this day, the State allows the beginning of 'two-a-days', two practices a day, morning and night. The tradition is that the team gathers on the football field at Midnight. Not only does the team gather to practice, the entire town gathers to watch and celebrate the beginning of another season for their beloved team.
I'm from Phoenix and have only heard about small Midwest towns and their sense of pride for their team. Last night, I witnessed it first hand and I gotta say, it's unbelievable.
Go Eagles!
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The start of high school football is officially underway here in Oklahoma. The small town I work for has a tradition. On this day, the State allows the beginning of 'two-a-days', two practices a day, morning and night. The tradition is that the team gathers on the football field at Midnight. Not only does the team gather to practice, the entire town gathers to watch and celebrate the beginning of another season for their beloved team.
I'm from Phoenix and have only heard about small Midwest towns and their sense of pride for their team. Last night, I witnessed it first hand and I gotta say, it's unbelievable.
Go Eagles!
OK and TX are most passionate about football, and I believe they also have the most football teams at every level, per capita.
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Welcome to the cult Repoman. :lol I love Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana High School Football.
Go Wildcats! :D
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It isn't just Oklahoma and Texas; they do similar things here in Alabama but we are engrossed in football just about every day of the year here. It all starts with off season high school workouts that are passing competitions that run almost year round and teams from every division face off in them. The big 6A schools send their entire offensive and defensive lineups to skill camps all summer long and bring them home about a week before pre-season starts. AND now it is trickling down to the lower levels as well.
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Some pics with my new Nikkor 70-300mm VR AF-S ED lens (http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/329976728.jpg)I picked up earlier in the week.
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/20312349
My kid is the one wearing white shirt, red gloves and torn elbow pads. ;)
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Not bad Rip; those are nice looking action shots. I will have to get my wife to post some that she took last season of our team. She hasn't had a chance to take any yet this year.
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Great shots Rip. Since you've been posting shots of your sons football, I've been amazed at the quality of equipment they have at that level.
I also get a kick out of how our kids seem to be lucky enough to look better than their fathers. ;)
I met you at I believe the 2001 Con. I remember seeing you and thinking... Now there's a scary looking guy. :lol
That was back when my game ID was Lowe, and I still hang out in the AVA, SEA, more than anywhere else so I really only know a slim section of the AH community, and I doubt you'll remember the meeting.
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Here is Gordon from last night.
Picture No. 1--Note that his helmet was refurbished, nice and painted, prior to joining football camp in mid-July. The kids an animal, I tell ya.
Picture No. 2--Tackling a running back (They 'play up' in scrimmage on defense, thus the reason the ball carrier is so much bigger than Gordon). He made 1st string middle linebacker. ;)
Picture No. 3--QB sack on a blitz.
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/20312349/330025132.jpg)
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/20312349/330025075.jpg)
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/20312349/330025008.jpg)
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He made 1st string middle linebacker. ;)
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