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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

US Sports Basketball: Penetration and Cutting

 

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What is a cut? 

 

Cuts in basketball are a sudden change of direction with the intention of creating space and opening the floor. It is a technique often used by players off the ball, it often results in havoc for the defense and easy opportunities for the offense. 

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Cutting is one of the most used and effective techniques that help the offense run their game. Defenses cannot handle cutting for a number of reasons. It helps offenses get players open and it creates correct spacing, which gives offenses space to operate effectively. Cutting makes defenses pay attention to every player on the court.

 

What is penetration? 

 

It's the act of dribbling past the defender to attempt to score. Dribble penetration not only leads to easy layups for players but it can also set up other players for open shots.

 

Although cutting and penetrating are two very effective techniques, there are different types of cutting and penetrating. Types of cuts such as the L-cut, the zipper cut and the iverson cut can get your players open while cuts like the UCLa cut and backdoor cut typically get players open near the rim for easy points. 

 

Learn how to teach and incorporate cuts and penetrations to your team. Work smarter and not harder.

 

**Penetration and subsequent cutting training**

 

In this course, Assistant Coach Russ Willemsen teaches penetration and cutting philosophies. He breaks down the different types of cuts, advantages and opportunities. As well as different forms of penetration. Learn these philosophies and techniques to help your team's offense. 

 

Simply click the ‘Book This Course’ button at the top right of this page, place your order, and you’ll immediately be logged into the training with full access. You’ll hit the ground running and improving your team's offense today! Book this course....


The Coach

Russ Willemsen is the Men's Basketball Assistant Coach at Tennessee State University. The Rushville, N.Y. native with ties to the Nashville area arrives at TSU after serving as an assistant at South Alabama for the last five seasons. Prior to his time in Mobile, Ala., Willemsen spent eight seasons on staff at Tennessee Tech.

During his time at South Alabama, the Jaguars had four All-Sun Belt Conference honorees and reached the Sun Belt Tournament quarterfinals twice. During Willemsen’s run at Tennessee Tech, the Golden Eagles won 19 or more games in a season four times, including a 20-win campaign in 2010-11 that resulted in an appearance in the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament. While on staff, he coached 12 All-OVC performers, including one NBA draft pick (Kevin Murphy) and two others who made NBA Summer League rosters. The Golden Eagles also had four named to the OVC All-Tournament Team. Book this course today!

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Cowardice of Censorship

 

  • Author Randy Gonzalez

The repugnant emotional reactivity that endeavors to stifle free speech is a form of post-modern cowardice. Any efforts to suppress or otherwise invoke censorship over the free exercise in the exchange of thinking processes is an act of tyranny.

In an age of infotainment, over vast reaches of electronic communication systems, to oppress or other restrict any form of interpersonal communication portends horrific consequences. Shutting down free speech in any format demonstrates unethical and socially regressive temper tantrums “adult children”. Often misunderstand, in all likelihood as a result of an intellectually devolving society, the censorship defense of “shouting fire” exposes egregious misinformation in order to condescend the free exercise of communicative exchanges. As such, every genre of creativity, from the artistry of photography to the movie making personifications of inventive storytelling ought to rise up in outrage. Of writers, journalists and poets, the tenor of dissent of ethical necessity demands immediate redress of grievances. Tyranny rises when discourse is restricted. (Continued below.....)

(...Continued.....)To paraphrase and otherwise reflect upon on journalist’s admonition on free speech, offers a critical guideline. Of that, the writer on point here brings to bear the writings of noteworthy exponents on issues of freedom of expression. Such notable personalities as John Milton, Thomas Payne, and John Stuart Mill for example, strenuously expounded on the necessity of personal liberty. With regard to an imperfect summation, it is duly noted that the speaker has a right to speak, and the listener is obliged to listen. Of such actions, for the civility of interpersonal interactions and advancement of civil discourse, it is essential to ensure a two-way process. Each party is courteously obligated to freely interact speaking, listening and cooperating productively. Prosocial benefits derive from the dissentious nature of oppositional and contentious points of view. Freedom, particularly in matters of verbal expression, become woefully disingenuous and potentially irrelevant when people are silenced because they are different.

In the contemporary social media and mainstream media, of all the infotainment corporate industrial complex, the atmosphere of censorship contrives to circumvent the First Amendment. By dismantling the first one, it follows that the others are in line for further degradation of individual rights and safeguards from oppressive incursions. For the growing oligarchic collusions of the more powerful and influential members of society, the wealthy and the politically connected, the republic is in danger. The cowardice of censorship expresses the peril.

In the vast reaches of social psychobabble, inviting the communal incestuous aberration of the cult of personality, the invective of infantile narcissism degrades the viability of intelligent ascension. Stupidity knows no boundaries for its advocates piously embrace the mantra of self-serving cognitive bias and immediate gratification. With frauds and fools lurking everywhere, relishing in their enslavement of complacent despair, the viability of an evolved society wanes toward final extinction. As such, one reflection from the past, espoused by a 17th century philosopher observed that government has no divine right to dictate censorship over the people. Instead, the people tell the government how governing is going to carried out. For those cowardly enough to submit their parasitic subservience to alleged “authority”, they can rely on the more sinister among us to erode their freedoms. While none of this current concern about censorship is new, the historicity is often forgotten given the ignorance of most people.

As mainstream society in general, with overlording by the infotainment industry, wallows in the safe mediocrity of gluttonous consumption, malevolent personalities ascend to the national stage to fool the majority. By cowardly acts of “cancel culture” exploitation, along with the insidious perpetrations of “political correctness”, the wussification of society insists upon the “dumbing down” of the populace. From pundits a plenty, simplistic commentary opined by the voices of childlike immaturity castigate any oppositional attempts at rational indignation. Particularly complicit in the collusion of illusions is the bloated arrogance of “celebrity worship”. From Hollywood elites, to the snobbery of the wealthy upper classes, the superficiality of the status quo speaks loudly to the entitlement of hypocritical self-righteousness. And to this, for every witch hunt, for each contrivance of accusation without lawful substantiation, therein resides the motivation to invoke terroristic acts upon others. Tyranny wears a human face.

Echoing the concerns of the 17th century social philosopher previously mentioned, dire consequences for American society await the incursions of censorship. Liberties erode as “paradise is lost” as a result of the emotional reactivity to silence free speech. To be exposed to competing ideas, differences and disagreements, including controversies of one nature or another is at the very core of liberation. For that elegance of unique existence, pursuing the free expression of ideological varieties for the exposure of veracity, based on evidentiary factuality, is an extraordinary expression of a wiser enlightenment. Instead, disguised as adults, children desire the dictatorial condescension of enforced adherence to a warped sense of regressive consensus. In the social media advancement of complicitous stupidity, a few valiant insist on rebellion.

In the contemporary annals of cowardly cancel culture, the pontificators of the celebrity worship, guru deification and pundits of pussification enjoy the salacious arrogance of stupidity. As they proselytize the commonality of regressive infantile narcissism, the collective advocates of simplistic magical thinking erode the vitality and potency of individual liberation. Oppositional contentiousness relies on the mainstream population to be ill-informed, complacent and mundanely committed to lethargy of pacified consensus. Invoking risky countermeasures, braver members of the social expanse assert the differentiated perspective of independent thought and deviation from the contrived normalcy of political, social and economic subservience. As to a historic notion of “radical free speech”, wiser speculations from an earlier century provoked the dangerous exhibitions of speaking fearlessly regardless of retribution. Proclaimed ages ago, and frequently forgotten, overshadowed by the convenience of “shouting fire in a theater”, the ghostly admonition mocked the hesitance to substantiate the higher order of free speech.

In one article, from an established oracle of political analysis, the speculative query of a noted magazine publication ponders the very notion of behavioral oppression. From an experience perspective, a writer ponders the efficacy of a society controlling the free exercise of verbal expression. To what extent a cultural sector, or a society in general may diminish the role of individuality depends on what those in power can get away with. For the predilection of tyranny by corporate-state collusions, or social networking contrivances, the future of personal independence stares precariously into an abyss of troubling possibilities. While governments are arguably a potential threat to individual freedom, other human entities are as much a provocative adversary to individuality. In the post-modern context, the accumulation of power by way of social media oligarchies, as well as multinational corporate enterprises, exert extreme influence to enforce conforming behaviors. From that, despotism looms menacingly over society.

From the tyranny of over the “majority”, which in modern America is due partly to elitist corporate-government collusions, “normalcy” rules by imposition of herded beliefs, opinions, and related emotional machinations. The intolerance for deviations, the persecutions by way of “political correctness” and associated juvenile foolishness endanger the viability of the republic. Pressuring the masses, the vast infotainment industry, including opinionating pundits, social media platforms and their techno-conglomerate ownerships, scare mongering foments of culture of devolving extinction. Political functionaries, primarily at the national level, scamper to conform to the treachery of the smug piety of the new “robber barons”.

At this juncture and of recent social media conjecture, the “robber barons” appear out of history. A century ago, a president railed against the money grubbing wealthy elitists who exploited the resources of the U.S. In addition, to that end, a basic description unfolded. Essentially, the robber baron is the wealthy who place themselves above the law and endeavor by whatever means to take illicit advantage of others. A pejorative term, the criticism suggests powerful and influential people, through various corporate configurations, scheme to ensure their wealth by less than honorable means. Of the 19th century era, industrialists and financiers made huge profits by dishonest business practices and oppressing workers at every opportunity to maximize profit. Everything from banking to oil, agriculture to textiles, were subjugated to every extent possible. For some researchers, speculations suggest the onset of the “power elite” gave rise to atmosphere of commerce that encouraged organized crime to flourish.

Given the affinity between corporate collusions and criminal activity, the salaciously selfish desire for wealth accumulation replicates in a multiplicity of modern examples. As such, financial empires amassed extraordinary fortunes then as they do now. Disparity between rich and poor continues in spite of mainstream psychobabble regarding the so-called American Dream. Now, enter the mystical “mind” flirtation with time travel. Climb into the time machine flash back to the 19th and observe the antics of the robber barons. After enough disgust with the “privileged few”, flash forward to the 21st century. Seemingly, not much changes with human nature. Fascinating science fiction movies provide entertaining adventure for such theoretical prospects. In the post-modern era of vast fortunes proliferating in the “info-age”, with innovations in telecommunications, extraordinary wealth gives a few exceptional power and dominion over others. As described by some media sources, “big tech” is likely the renewed human expression of modern-day robber barons. Sleight of hand and misdirection continue the criminality.

While exceptionality applies in most cases, the focus becomes that of assessing the most powerful among us, and what is going on behind the curtain. As some pursue prosocial engagement in a diversity of consumer consumptive enterprises, others prefer the enrichment of themselves at the expense of others. In the techno-world, some criminals hide behind a computer screen. Likewise, some have come to own very large global social media networks and wield exceptional influence over public policy making. From economic entrepreneurs to political entrepreneurs, the self-serving interests of various corporate factions amatively invited their “god-like” worship. By presupposed “divine right of kings”, an American aristocracy rises.

Be obedient, submit to the subservience of consumptive enslavement, do what you are told do, conform to the consensus of the rules, and you shall be rewarded with being kept in your place. For the new robber barons of the techno-monopolies, dictation as to the deceptions of cause and effect, contrived reality and manufactured morality, fallacies over facts and psychobabble theology, subsistence in in the narrow framework of shallow conformity. For the valiant non-conformist, the rebel with an honorable cause, the resistance fighter who fights for uniqueness, his or her valor is met by the lash of tyrannical retribution. Of things seen as mandates by pretentious authoritarian rule, for the “greater good” masquerade as martial law for the whims of the more powerfully entrenched. Whips, spankings and bondage in some metaphorical sleight of hand, reflect the infantile retribution from self-appointed divinities. For the wizards of the cyber-land, behind the virtual iron curtain there stands, the minions of “thought control”.

For the impotence of their conceited potency, the limp shortcomings of imaginative creativity, the power to banish, shame and mock disagreeable disputations assert the hollowness of their ideologies. Children as grownups, immature and self-righteous, with powerful telecommunications wealth, ascend as overlords of social media and infotainment globalization. Likewise, a host of guru worshipped celebrities crowd around the glow of their needy self-validation. By the bloated gush of exaggerated importance and magnification of conformity, selfie reflected importance fixates upon the dullness sameness of over-rated egos. By every effort at censoring dissent, disagreement and oppositional discourse, a stupidity of conformity fosters the darkness maladaptive inflictions. Deadened, the human spirit falls to the degradation of innovative inspiration to excel beyond the commonality of the herded collective. For a true calling to nonconformity, or a mature sense of differentiation is of valued essence individuality.

The cowardice of censorship, by whatever impotence of self-doubt, or narrowmindedness of personal immaturity, provokes the deadly consequence for authoritarian oppressions. For most who do not understand the depths of intense personal transformation, the superficial assertion of “non-conformity” is another form of conforming masquerade. Yet, the true fighter for freedom of individual exceptionality maturely self-evolves to a higher understanding. For the piercing painfulness of formative anonymity, to the quest for ascendency of self-realization, individuation seeks the paths less crowded by others. With persistent aggressive pursuit of passion, in the creative genres of fantasy to fruition, the individuality of independence cannot be bound by barriers of jealous animosity. Cowardice of censorship labors to thwart expressive bravery.

In the hideously grotesque manifestations of intentional suppression of free exercise of thought to social interaction, the willful deceivers maximize the adverse capacity for deception. for the acts of deliberate betrayal and treason, many re-create the world in their image. For people, regardless of actual or perceived status in socio-economic ranking, the ability to deceive is extraordinary. Self-deception, as regards the historic existential assertion of philosophers long gone, ensures every effort to promote desirable admiration of oneself. Once in powerful and influential positions, where politicians, pundits and gurus of wealth pontificate their reshaping of everyone else’s world view, the blustering cowardice infringes on others. From this, censorship becomes a weapon in the hands of techno-corporate oligarchs, political aristocracies and over-rated media talking heads. Some wonder why anyone would give any credence to a tube-shaped talking head.

That is, the face and upper torso one sees, but does not necessarily observe, in the commercial ventures of alleged news reporting. From the “plasma tube of plenty”, there unfolds the seemingly two-dimensional 24/7 non-stop dystopic babble of shallow infantile perspectives. Expensively attired, coiffed to perfection, blushed by the brush of makeup, form fitted to fabrication of the infotainment perpetrations of contrived consensus. Robotic poster children for a time of discord and dissent, the “tele-evangelists” of mystical telecommunications adulate upon self-righteous condescension. Hiding cleverly the defects of humanistic shortcomings, the cowardice of censorship trespasses easily upon the boundaries of others. For all the window-dressing, the coiffured fabrication of upscale fabrics, the emptiness of their sad defects and flaws sometimes, but very elusively, slips through a crack or tear in the costumes of duplicity.

As a point of hilarity to the discouraging advent of the weaponized information, and bullying commercial materialization of thinking processes, would be fascinating to see everyone completely naked. Nude, bare, in the buff and brazenly exotic media expressions depict people as their skin really depicts them. Nothing to hide, no fake coverings to shield the dishonesty, yet instead, the test of bare-naked exhibition. Of course, that will never be the case, while nudity is an act of self-revolution, awareness of selflessness, etc. for a few valiant souls, bareness scares most people. In a culture where oppressions have many faces, and hypocrisy knows many places, acts of freedom are herded to the commonality of trickery, ruse and bogus pretenses. In a realm of the cowardice of censorship, many fear the reality of truth and confrontation with the necessity to grow up and act like adults. Over the expanse of many cultures, and from past to present, historical cautions mock the critics who find flaws in others but ignore their own.

In the cowardice of censorship, the insidious malevolence to inflict certain viewpoints as the norm, and conspire to suppress all others, the emphasis on spineless tyranny cannot be overstated. It hastens the downfall of humanity and summons the regressive degradations of eventual extinction. Abnormality by intentional perpetration asserts the condescending ramifications of maladaptive assumptions as to how others should behave. To conform to a preconceived mode of behavior, those with power and influence, wealth and control, assume a spectrum of behavioral specifications inflicted upon the majority. While arguments consume certain periods and particular cultural characteristics, along with generational diversity, the societal configuration of a democratic republic specifies constitutional for extraordinary individual liberty. As to that, abnormality in the diversification of mainstream interactivity enriches the prospects for communal ascendancy to higher realms of enlightened maturation.

Yet, the collectivist ideologies of normalcy condemn the individuation of creativity among the individuals who differ with the status quo. As such, in modern times, to be among the so-called normal is to forsake the transforming differentiation of self-evolution. For the fear of being outside the crowd, the herded mentality of sameness voluntarily surrenders to subservience. Suppression of dissent in any form, restriction for rebellion in artistic endeavors against “community guidelines”, and squashing alternative viewpoints cries loudly the “cow-herding” of cowardly authoritarianism. To accept the dogmas of commonality, forgetting the time worn echoes of historical repressions, the many embrace the maladaptive consistency of sameness. Conformity to the malicious intentions of “political correctness”, for the power and control over others by those who’s “lives matter” and others do not, inflicts the pains and sufferings of dying culture. The ease and potential terror of simplistic thinking in controlling ideas expresses human evil.

While discourse considers the viability of some compromise for a modicum of common interests, as reflected in a republic’s constitutional precautions, exceptionality for the prospects of abnormality is vital. The value of conformity depends heavily upon the value of freedoms by which personal liberation assures continued individual transformation. Of that, allowances for non-conformity invites creativity, innovation and individualistic maturation. Yet, most are not in a process of profound maturation, and remain in a fixation at a prior time and place of narcissistic infantilism. As a result, children in adult bodies gain powerful placement, from the corporate realms of techno-empires, to the political arenas of “American aristocracy. From those elitist collectivist wealthy enclaves, there is tyranny in the cowardice of censorship.

Randy Gonzalez is a criminology professor and 35 year veteran of the law enforcement profession. He is multi-genre published author and certified educational consultant.

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Monday, February 21, 2022

US Sports Basketball: 3 Keys To Shooting Better Off The Pass

 

  • By Tyler Linderman
  • Some of the best shooters in the game today are amazing at shooting the ball off the pass.

    Being able to quickly receive a pass when you are already in an ideal shooting position allows you to quickly get a good shot off before the defender can challenge the shot. Follow these 3 keys and allow your teammates to set you up for great looks at the basket, whether you’re coming off screens or on a fast break.

    Coachtube and Tom Izzo

    Square Your Feet, Hips & Shoulders To The Basket

     Every good shot is taken with your body being square to the basket. Having your hips and shoulders facing the basket allows for greater accuracy and a higher percentage of made shots. While this is fairly easy to do during shooting practice, it takes concentration to square up before shooting in a live-game situation.

     In practice, pay close attention to your feet, as the rest of your body will follow their path. When pivoting into shooting position, step first with the foot closest to the basket and then rotate your body, swinging the outside foot into a square-to-the basket position.

    When moving off-ball, you should be squared, with your feet, hips and shoulders all pointing directly at the basket, by the time you receive the pass.

    Be sure to run drills coming off the pick from both sides of the court and pay close attention to your footwork so that it becomes second nature once you get in the game.

    Have Your Hands Ready To Shoot

    Every good shooter always has his or her hands ready to shoot the ball.

    These scorers want the ball and expect the ball when coming off a screen or coming down the wing on a fast break.

    When you always have your hands in a ready-to-shoot position you let your teammates know that you are looking for the shot and can quickly go into your shooting motion once you receive the ball. As you progress through the ranks of youth basketball to high school and college, it becomes more and more important to be able to quickly get off your shot.

    Your opponents become quicker and taller, so as a shooter, you must also refine your game in order to keep being successful. Always have your hands ready to shoot so your teammates will keep feeding you the ball.

    Keep Your Body Tight

    Everyone wants to take the ‘Kobe Shot’. You know the one I am talking about, where he is on the baseline at the 3 point line with his back to the basket and he turns, fading away from the basket, and knocks down the shot. These are called low percentage shots, because there is very little chance of you actually making them.

     The more your body is turning or moving, especially away from the basket, the less likely your shot is to go in. When shooting off the pass, always keep your body tight. Running off screens and shooting the ball makes it easy to fall away from the basket or to the side as you shoot. Instead, keep your body square to the basket and your body tight and balanced during the shot.

    Here we see player development coach Luka Baskin explain the one more pass shooting drill.

    Anytime you shoot the ball, you want to go straight up and straight back down, as if you were jumping in a phone booth. Don’t fall into bad habits by trying to take off balance, fadeaway shots. Be sure to keep your shooting motion the same and tight, regardless of how you receive the pass.

    Practice these 3 keys above and you will find your teammates looking for you more often. Be sure to apply these techniques in practice, paying close attention to your footwork, your hands and your core so that when game time comes, you’ll always be in a good shooting position without thinking twice! 


    Sunday, February 20, 2022

    Speaking of Canada PARTNERED WITH THE COMMUNITY: CDM CANADA MISSIONS

     by CDM Staff 


    Creflo Dollar Ministries has a wide reach across nations, bringing people the message of God’s grace and love. Did you know that we do outreach in Canada? Creflo Dollar Ministries Canada is based in Toronto, and we recently caught up with them to get a glimpse of how the outreach work there is going. We spoke with Doug Whitehead, managing director of CDM Canada, and Gerrick Denton, business and data analyst.


    Warming the Homeless

    CDM Canada began 2020 with an outreach familiar to them, Warming the Homeless. On January 20th and February 7th, a volunteer team of 23 ministered for approximately two hours. They drove up and down the streets of downtown Toronto and stopped wherever people were laying under cold blankets or sitting up with blankets wrapped around to survive the night. The team witnessed to 35 people whose only option was to sleep on the sidewalk, and provided blankets, tarps, hats, gloves, and hand-warmers to help protect them during temperatures of 15 degrees Fahrenheit. The volunteers also distributed Creflo Dollar’s book, Simple Favor, to those who would accept it, as well as prayed with them for protection, guidance, and provision. For some, just having someone acknowledge them and show love and concern meant the world to them. Imagine losing hope and being in 15-degree weather with no resources. Now imagine volunteering in that same 15-degree weather to simply show love.

    COVID-19: Scaling Back to Move Forward

               Like most other organizations, CDM Canada was obstructed by the safety restrictions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Most people were confined to their homes, so the ministry was forced to temporarily suspend mission activities from March to July 2020. According to Doug, “We didn’t do anything at that time because nobody knew what you were allowed to do or what kind of contact you could have with people. Since then, we have been able to continue our activities with a few exceptions.” The ministry had to scale back, regroup, and adjust to new protocols in order to move forward with outreach. For example, there’s a lot of really close contact during the street missions and they couldn’t guarantee the safety of the volunteers who assist with that outreach. So, they focused on COVID relief for people that reached out to the office instead, and continued with their annual Back to School drive, Thanksgiving food baskets, and Christmas toys.

          Like CDM offices around the world, CDM Canada sometimes teams up with local churches and community organizations to provide aid. Most of the 2020-2021 school year in the Toronto area was virtual, so school-related needs increased when students were set to return to in-person schooling. In August 2021, members of a local church were in need of backpacks and school supplies for their children, but the church didn’t have the means to provide that assistance this year. CDM Canada moved alongside them to provide the supplies. The event was held at the church and combined with a special service for the youth.

    Canadian Partners

    COVID relief efforts gave the CDM ambassadors in other parts of Canada a chance to step up. They reached out to their local communities and put names forward of people who needed assistance; they acted on behalf of the CDM Canada office in their local neighborhoods to provide COVID relief to people who can’t be reached by the main office in Toronto. “We’ve got a good concentration of partners out on the east coast, which is north of Maine and the northeast U.S., but the true partner base is spread across Canada with larger concentrations in the major cities,” said Gerrick.

    The CDM Canada office was able to broaden its reach from coast to coast with their monthly partner letter as an outreach tool. The monthly partner letter contains a special word from Creflo Dollar to the people who have chosen to partner with Creflo Dollar Ministries, and also contains updates on the outreach work CDM Canada has been doing. From the west coast of British Columbia, all the way to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland on the east coast, the monthly partner letter puts out a call to action to find people in local communities that need help.

    For example, a woman who runs a bed and breakfast a few hours north of Toronto extends her home to the community for people to come listen to Creflo and Taffi Dollar’s teachings. Along with many other CDM Canada ministry partners, she participates in the distribution of relief baskets, gift cards, and ministry materials to local neighborhoods, women’s groups, and shelters. Partners throughout the country do much the same thing. They reach out to the community and find where the need is; then CDM Canada provides the ministry materials to meet the needs in those local areas. The ministry provides the resources, but these precious partners are the people on the ground, distributing things and praying for those who need assistance.  

    One partner always includes prayer for her community when she contacts the CDM Canada office. She connected with a shelter in her community and met a family there whose daughter is wheelchair-bound. Her mother is her full-time caregiver and the family just escaped a house fire last fall. They were in a tough situation financially and, through our partner, we were able to alleviate some of their burden during the holiday season by providing a Thanksgiving meal. The family was beyond grateful, and very impacted by the fact that people they didn’t know wanted to help them get back on their feet.

    The Toronto office also delivered Thanksgiving baskets to a low-income housing community. One of the residents contacted the ministry for help for herself, but also mentioned that there were people in her building in similar situations to her own. She gave CDM Canada the names of the families in need in her community and helped lead the outreach team to the correct doors.

    That’s what we are called to do as World Changers, and CDM Canada is at the forefront of being the hands and feet of Jesus. Stay tuned for more about CDM Canada in our article next month!

    Best Soccer Defense Drills and The US High School Soccer Show

     

  • By Damilare Ilyiade
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    A team’s defense that is too susceptible to the opposition’s attack is most likely to concede lots of goals and lose matches even if they have got the best forwards in the league.


    This is why teams need to make use of efficient soccer defense drills if they want to stand the chance of having one of the strongest backlines in the beautiful game.

     

    Aside from that mentioned above, soccer teams that are highly knowledgeable in soccer defense drill tactics and techniques of playing defense during a match are more likely to have the ball and be able to create chances.

     

    What are the Fundamentals of Coaching Defense?

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    Apart from the fact that pressure, cover, and balance make a defense keep good shape, those attributes are the foundations when creating soccer defensive drills. 

     

    How do these Three Factors Differ from Each other? 

     

    The closest defender to the ball in a soccer match have always been taught to apply pressure to the ball. This could force the attacker into a mistake or the dispossession of the ball from the attacking player’s end. Both the pace of the press and the direction are factors that can influence whether the defender wins the ball or not.

     

    Balance is the ability of a team to position itself in an excellent defensive posture to prevent the switching of the ball to off-balance the defense.

     

    Cover as a defensive positioning gives instant support to the pressuring players by positioning themselves near the pressure.

     

    In this section, you will learn top-notch defensive soccer drills that will help you make your players work as a unit at the back without leaving out interesting ways they can help their defenders react in different defensive situations. 

     

     

    Teaching 1st Defender without Opposition

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    Objective

    The objective of this drill is to let young defenders understand the necessary things they need to do when they are the closest to an opponent with the ball. 

     

    Set-Up

    A fully-sized goal is needed for this drill. The next thing you need do is to separate the team into two groups of defenders to start on both sides of the goal and also make sure that two attacking players with the ball are positioned outside the penalty area on both sides of the attacking final-third of the field. 

     

    Execution

    The first defender on both sides of the goal progress forward to close down their respective attacker once the coach gives a command. 

    Their focus should be on a fast-controlled approach.

    The defenders should also be instructed to position their bodies between the ball and the middle of the goal.

    All of this is needed to help the players work on the speed of the approach, body posture, and positioning. 

    4-5 times of this drill should be enough for each of the players or you can also make them continue trying it out until they are comfortable with approaching the attacker.

     

    Coaching Tips

    Ensure that the body positioning of the defenders is between the goal and the ball. This drill is aimed at helping close down space quickly at a fast-controlled approach. 

     

     

    Defensive Speed Course

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    Objective

    This fitness training-related drill is centered around improving defensive speed and quickness in front of the goal. 

     

    Set-Up

    Make sure the defensive players are lined up at the right corner of the 18-yard box and set up six to eight 6ft training hurdles with 2-yards equidistant apart from each other. The next thing to do is to mark off 5-yards and place a training stick there. Having done that, mark off another 5 yards from the last training stick and set a second training stick at a 45-degree angle away from the goal. Finally, put the last training stick about 5 yards directly towards the sideline from the last.

     

    Execution

    The responsibility of the coach is to tell the players to quickly double step over each training hurdle and ensure that each of their feet is placed in between each hurdle.

    The players are to sprint to the first training stick as soon as they have exited the last training hurdle. 

    Around the first training stick, every player must follow a quick 45-degree cut and move towards the second training stick. Note that this should also be repeated when heading towards the last training stick too.

    Upon reaching the third (last training stick), the players are to make a 

    90 degree cut and sprint towards the top of the 6-yard box.

     

    Coaching Tips

    This drill enhances fast feet, sharp turns, and also tests defensive players’ speed and quickness. 

     

    1v1 Defending the Dribble

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    Objective

    1v1 defending the dribble is designed to help isolate the defender to concentrate on the first defender and defending the dribble

     

    Set-Up

    You are to create a 10X10 grid with a cone put at each side of the grid 10yards apart and use pinnies (yellow/red) to separate the two teams equally into two groups (two players in each group). Facing the middle square, ensure each of the teams is line-up on the cones opposite one another. In addition, put a defender inside the middle grid. A player starts as the defender and another team is made the attacking team depending on how you choose your pinnies. 

     

    Execution

    The attacking team aimed at dribbling at the defender and also dribbling through the other side of the grid by beating the middle defender.

    The player plays to the first player in the line he’s facing he has successfully made it through the grid and out the other side by dribbling. 

    If the defender wins the ball from the next player, or the ball is knocked out of the grid, the player that loses the ball turns to be the new defender.

    On the other hand, the player that won the ball or made the ball to be kicked out of the grid passes the ball to a teammate in line who now becomes the new attacker against the new defender in the middle in an attempt to get through to the other side and pass to the next player in line.

     

    Coaching Tips

    It is highly recommended that defenders should always concentrate more on important things such as bent knees with weight on the balls of the feet, chest leaning over the toes, staggered stance with toes at a 45-degree angle, ability to shuffle quickly, and other related key elements when defending 1v1's in soccer. 

    As the saying goes... attack is the best form of defense. This is completely true, when you win the ball, if you can keep it away from your opponent then there is nothing for you to defend. Of course, when you have the ball you want to attack and create chances. In this clip, coach Leonard Griffin explains ways to build out from the back.

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