Recently the website VideoJug stopped off via a mid-season Hillcroft Lacrosse training session to record a series of educational training videos for their website. The site, with slogan "Get Good at Life" is a free site that features 1000's of videos with tips, answers, and instructions on how to do anything from DIY to sports, to finances... They were looking to update their content on Lacrosse, and liased with the South London Club to film some lighthearted videos aimed at beginners to the game to help new players out with their first steps into the sport.
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Flowseph - Looking back on some of my lacrosse experiences, one particular thing always makes me laugh. It was over in California, a place not short of characters, where there was a referee who undoubtedly took his role above and beyond the call of duty, but carried it off with such charm and charisma that nobody could get enough of him. As I prepared for the face-off against Claremont University’s fogo, the ref gave his speech:
Here is a question for you all, what separates the best lacrosse players from everyone else? What makes some teams "unbeatable", and others a "walk over"? Well according to a new organisation that has just sprung up on the UK Lacrosse horizon, that one word is..."Preparation". When this word is brought up in front of the coaches running the newly formed ArchLevel Lacrosse they quickly jump in to tell us that one word is what they are all about - preparing you and your team for the intense mental and physical challenges of your Lacrosse season. After hearing their motto "Our obsession is Your progression" we decided we should find out more.
How do players in the UK go about making the next step and getting themselves onto a college programme in the US? Whilst it's not impossible, take Sam Russell (Whittier College) or Thomas Brooks (Manhattan) for example, there certainly isn't an established system for exposing the talent pool of UK players to our stateside neighbour. Cue Scott Weddell stepping up to the plate, and his brainchild England Knights Lacrosse. TopJLax went along to meet Scott and find out a little more.
TopJLetters: The Best and Everyone Else 07/16/2010
In the first of a series of reader letters our own Flowseph gets us started with his letter titled: Perfecting the fundamental
This was one of the best pieces of advise I ever received during my time playing lacrosse, and it applies to all sport in general. What does it mean? Is it to say that athletics is so black and white as to say that some people are given the gift by God for greatness, whilst others are left on the wayside; not better, faster, not stronger. Or perhaps can an elite athlete’s outstanding abilities be explained by a collaboration of physicality with a mental edge and motivation to better themselves, perhaps imposed by parent/coach nurture. It is difficult to attribute sporting success to one aspect more than any other, but what is obvious when looking at elite athletes; no one wanders into their position without high threshold for enduring and mundane practise, despite their level of natural talent.
This was one of the best pieces of advise I ever received during my time playing lacrosse, and it applies to all sport in general. What does it mean? Is it to say that athletics is so black and white as to say that some people are given the gift by God for greatness, whilst others are left on the wayside; not better, faster, not stronger. Or perhaps can an elite athlete’s outstanding abilities be explained by a collaboration of physicality with a mental edge and motivation to better themselves, perhaps imposed by parent/coach nurture. It is difficult to attribute sporting success to one aspect more than any other, but what is obvious when looking at elite athletes; no one wanders into their position without high threshold for enduring and mundane practise, despite their level of natural talent.
