The offseason is here, and there are opportunities to train and progress outside of weight training. The Skills Academy at the Virginia Beach Field House launches on January 16, working with quarterbacks, receivers and athletes on mechanics and technique.
Chix Beach Gym has a Saturday tradition for the football offseason. The “Bigger, Faster, Stronger” program aims to build athletes through a program that emphasizes physical fitness and strength, plus good nutrition, goal setting, and a positive mental attitude.
Junior class football recruits, the season you just played was your greatest season to get noticed for college recruitment. Most college coaches are still working on recruiting current seniors, but the time for them to begin recruiting the Class of 2014 is right around the corner. Now is the time for you to get to work on setting yourself up for an active off season.
Western Branch Head Coach Greg Gibson focuses on themes while coaching, and one of his themes is on excellence. There’s so much content in his presentation on excellence that we’ve broken it up into five parts. Here’s the final installment. This time he defines excellence and talks about establishing consistency.
Senior class football recruits, you should know that its crunch time for getting your college commitment worked out. Most of the biggest schools have their recruiting classes already nailed down. They’re just putting in work over the next six weeks in order to make sure that their recruits stay committed.
Western Branch Head Coach Greg Gibson focuses on themes while coaching, and one of his themes is on excellence. There’s so much content in his presentation on excellence that we’re breaking it up into five parts. There’s a lot to cover. Here’s the fourth part. This time he covers the signs of achieving excellence.
Western Branch Head Coach Greg Gibson focuses on themes while coaching, and one of his themes is on excellence. There’s so much content in his presentation on excellence that we’re breaking it up into five parts. There’s a lot to cover. Here’s the third part. This time he covers excellence in personal fitness and academics.
Western Branch Head Coach Greg Gibson focuses on themes while coaching, and one of his themes is on excellence. There’s so much content in his presentation on excellence that we’re breaking it up into five parts. There’s a lot to cover. Here’s the second part…
In the City of Portsmouth in the 1980’s and 1990’s, if the topic of coaching high school football were to surface, two names were bound to pop up, the late great Joe Langston of I.C Norcom High School and Darnell Moore of Woodrow Wilson High School on Willett Drive. In Portsmouth, being a hard working city, residents didn’t have all that much, but we had our football.
Like many other playoff teams, our season came to an abrupt end with our second round playoff loss. As I looked across the empty field before boarding the bus home, my mind was stuck on two things. One, if we had won the game, how much farther could we have gone? And, two, I can’t believe it’s over and these seniors will be moving on. Losing a playoff game is the toughest type of loss, because it all ends right there.