Football Coaching for High Schools by CoachFreeb
Home of Football's Equalizer Offense and
The Handles Everything Defense
John Wooden
These kids would never be able to repay you but would be eternally grateful; lives are forever altered with this program.
Members of our little church fellowship have connected with an orphanage in Honduras. The stories that have come to us about conditions there are just heartbreaking
For example, there were some orphans that were living in cardboard boxes in a back alley next to a dumpster behind a pizza place. If there was a piece of pizza picked out of the dumpster, the boys would determine who had not eaten the longest and that child would get the pizza.
My tipping point was a story about grandparents who were parenting 12 children, trying to keep them alive on 3 boiled bananas a day. One little girl slipped into a coma, was taken to the hospital but did not survive. The other children went to the already overcrowded orphanage.
I have resolved to do something about it. I am asking you to help.
Steve Jobs of Apple once said, "I want to put a dent in the universe." And with the ipod, the iphone and itunes he certainly has. I am asking you to join me in putting a dent in another universe, the universe of childhood malnutrition.
To combat conditions in the area the Tegucigalpita Children's Village was built with donations administered by World Wide Heart to Heart. The orphanage is making a difference for kids in the area. To read about the work done, please log on to www.wwh2h.org <http://www.wwh2h.org/> .
We are organizing an effort to send NSE VitaMeal packages (each package costs $22.00) to the orphanage to put a dent in malnutrition in the area. The orphanage will organize an outreach program to distribute packages to the most needy in the area, and the need is great.
Each VitaMeal package provides month's worth of proper nutrition for another child that would normally have to fend for themselves on the streets and in the dumps scouring for bits of food to stave off starvation. Learn about the NTC at www.maxcast.com/feedorphans be sure to watch the video to get a quick overview of the program.
I encourage you to invite others at school, the office, or at your church to donate as well. When I was coaching, I would collect "spare change" in the lunchroom once a week from the students and staff and also had a collection jar on my desk for daily contributions. We were able to sponsor half a dozen kids this way. Jacquie and I will conduct 'noisy collections' at church asking members to donate monthly VitaMeal packages. If you ask them, they will contribute.
Please let me know how you will help with this program so I can inform Brent Goddard, NTC Director, of the number of VitalMeal packages that should be sent to the orphanage. Learn more details about the program at http://www.nourishthechildren.com <http://www.nourishthechildren.com/> .
Please send your monthly noisy collections to Jacquie & Roger Freeborn, P.O. Box 1616, Estacada, OR, 97023. Or you may send them to Worldwide Heart to Heart Ministries International Headquarters, P.O. Box 372, Carson WA 98610. Make sure you mark it for "nourish the children."
Together we can make a difference and make a dent in this universal problem.
Our spare change will make a difference; Blessings to You,
Roger Freeborn
National Director, Bigger Faster Stronger, INC.
Where Freeb is next:
8.16-18: ID - Boise: BFS Video Network for Southern Idaho League
08.11.08
Alain Bernard of the French Swim Team
by Ron White
Albert Einstein had a formula for success. Can you believe that? One of the greatest minds of all time developed a math formula for success! I suggest you read this carefully -- this may be the most important math equation that you will ever see.
Einstein said, "If A equals success, then the formula is: A=X+Y+Z.
X is work.
Y is play.
Z is keep your mouth shut."
Einstein no doubt had an excellent sense of humor. Let's look at the 3 variables in this equation. They are:
1. Work
2. Play
3. Keeping your mouth shut!
1. Work: Albert Einstein had a tremendous work ethic and because of that gave more to society and modern science than any person in recent times
2. Play: Einstein, however, did not work 24 hours a day and made time for fun and relaxation. His idea of fun may have been different than yours, but that doesn't mean it still wasn't play.
3. Keeping your mouth shut: Finally, my favorite part of his success formal is to keep your mouth shut. I genuinely believe that the person who talks the least says the most. A friend of mine complains that the woman he is dating talks too much. I don't know how to break the news to him; however, the problem is not that she talks too much. It simply is the fact that he is irritated that he isn't able to talk. Now, let me just say this is not a generic man and woman statement. I am speaking about a specific person that I know. His desire is to constantly talk and because he likes to talk so much, he will talk in circles. If you let him talk long enough he will repeat the same thing three times and then contradict himself. His desire is not to hear but to be heard.
Albert Einstein, on the other hand had nothing to prove. He felt no need to be the "Chatty Cathy" he could have been with his knowledge. It wasn't important to him to talk to everyone he met and talk over their heads to demonstrate his IQ. Instead, he learned the value of quietness and solitude.
Shift your mind set from being a talker to a listener. It has been said that you can make more friends in 5 minutes by becoming interested in others than you can make in 5 years of trying to get others interested in you! How do you become interested in others? You ask questions and then keep your mouth shut!
Dale Carnegie wrote a best selling book entitled, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People.' One of the key premises of this book was that everyone's favorite subject is actually themselves and that the sweetest sound to their ears is the sound of their own name. Einstein knew this and realized he could influence others by choosing his spots to speak and validating others by extending them the courtesy of listening.
One of the things that we do in Our Be An 11 Class is to hand out a "Daily Dose" of things that cross my computer desktop that we feel would be beneficl to the kids. This has grown out of our sharing 'Cken Soup for the Soul' stories with the kids in the past. These DailyDoses now have more in them than just Chicken Soup Stories so we call them DailyDoses: We will try to post up a DailyDose each school day and perhaps you could use it with your kids.
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Got an email from a coach/friend in VA: They are just starting up their football paorgram. Last eyar was their first varsity year for the program and they played with no Seniors. Last year he lost to a team 30-0. This year he beat them 26 - 0 after a complete year of training with BFS. The losing school's Athletic Director called the following Monday to talk about scheduling their own BFS Clinic!
Schools that have had BFS Clinics average two or more football wins, three or more basketball wins, three more baseball and softball wins, 20 percent more victories in all athletic programs, and generally reduce injuries by half. Many go on to win their State Championship! BFS helps accomplish this by getting all athletes, both girls and boys, and coaches from every sport on the same page. The goal is to unify all sports under one total strength program.
Bigger Faster Strong, Inc., currently has a staff of 50 clinicians who put on athletic-training clinics in every state. Every year over 300 schools sponsor a BFS Clinic. Dr. Greg Shepard, BFS Founder & CEO, started doing clinics back in 1976. Even today, BFS Clinics remain the backbone of the company.
A clinic can be broken down into three basic parts: an instructional section, a motivational section and a hands-on section. Hands-on workshops put everything together. In these workshops perfect lifting and spotting techniques are taught for every lift. Special BFS training equipment is brought in to help facilitate learning.
BFS Clinics have proven time and time again to give the absolute winner's edge! Call to schedule a BFS event and give your athletic programs a championship start to their seasons.
On a scale of one to ten: In All that you do . . . Be An 11!
CoachFreeb - Cell 503.312.2138 Toll Free: 888.271.1926 - (Remember Toll Free rings at the house and we will be traveling on the above dates - the cell is your best bet)
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Gal 6:9
These are the BFS Program that we offer to schools to help them reach their goals. We can set up one of these programs for your school when we get close by on one of the above trips that are coming up this spring. This is an opportunity to schedule one of these proven programs for your school at a special reduced price.
When opponents cannot predict what you will do, they cannot act against you with inevitable effect; and when they realize they cannot predict what you will do, they have to be more watchful without knowing quite what they are watching for, thus exhausting the energy of attention and progressively diluting its effectiveness.
This leads naturally into the offensive aspect of unpredictability; enemies who cannot tell when or where you might act are thereby prevented from preparing a sure defense. Their attention is thus necessarily spread more thinly, and their mental energy naturally wanes on account of the added burden. The buildup of constantly mounting anxiety accelerates this process, and aggressively unpredictable behavior that is fundamentally intended to increase tension succeeds doubly in its function by the added tension inherent in futile reactions to misdirection. The Lost Art of War-SunTzu II
The point is not to go head-to-head with the defense, but to toy with the defenders and trick them into overextending themselves. that means thinking and moving in unison as a group and being acutely aware, at any given moment, of what's happening on the floor. Executed properly, the system is virtually unstoppable because there are no set plays and the defense can't predict what's going to happen next. If the defense tries to prevent one move, the players will adjust instinctively and start another series of cuts and passes that often lead to a better shot.
If the players are going to learn the offense, they would have to have the confidence to make decisions on their own. That would never happen if they were constantly searching for direction from me. I wanted them to disconnect themselves from me, so they could connect with their teammates, and the game.
The strength of the offense is based on the Taoist principle of yielding to an opponent's force in order to render him powerless. The idea is not to wilt or act dishonorably in the face of overwhelming force, but to be savvy enough to use the enemy's own power against him. If you look hard enough, you'll find his weaknesses. Bottom line: there's no need to overpower when you can outsmart. -Phil Jackson, Sacred Hoops
To obtain the best quality DVD, the recommendation is to have no more than 60 minutes recorded on one DVD. Therefore we have the EQualizer Offense on 2 DVDs broken down AKA the chapters you see above. These DVDs will play in most newer DVD regular players and of course in your computer's DVD drive. The offense on these DVDs concentrates on the offense from the last 2-3 years and therefore differs from that of the VHS EQualizer tape which featured play from years 2000 and before. The Quality of the DVDs is much better than that of the VHS tape as our equipment has improved and will conitnue to improve with the addition of a digital video camera this fall.
At present we are working on completing Defensive DVDs. These Will be much superior to the VHS defensive video we have had in the past. Right now we will be including defensive chapters on Defense, Defending the T Teams; Defensing the Double Wing; and Nickel Defense. These defensive videos will be further broken down into defending the middle, off tackle, outside and against the pass. The Defensive DVDs will be available in early August.
The DVDs are designed to be a companion/illustration of the basic offense that is written up in the EQualizer Playbook.
Each DVD is priced at $15 plus postage and handling. If you are using any part of the EQualizer Offense, you will want to have these DVDs before practice starts. They are a great coaching/instructional tool.
2004 RangerUpdates
Be An 11 Class is an attitude, motivation, goal setting, visualization class taught by Coach Freeborn that has a profound impact on the student/athletes in the class. During the Clinic Coach Freeborn will lay out the FUNdaMENTALS of the class which you can easily work into your program for a more positive attitude and higher motivation for the players - and coaches
This class is the prototype Be An 11 Class stressing attitude, motivation, goal setting and teamwork.
For all of you who keep asking about our everyday, 5 days a week routine in the weigthroom, you will find a copy of it at the above link.
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