Why Lacrosse, Hockey & Baseball Players love NFL Alumni Youth Football Camps
In the long run, multi-sport athletes are better athletes and go further in the game they love.
NFL Alumni Youth Football Camps is not just for football skills – it’s a platform for athletic development in all sports. Our non-contact football skills are transferable skills that can assist tracking fly balls in the outfield, zig-zagging down the soccer field, lifting a saucer pass to your left wing or pressing the fast guard with the dribbling ball. Here are just some ways we help athletes in all sports.
Hand Eye Coordination
At NFL Alumni Youth Football Camps, athletes will throw and catch dozens if not hundreds of times per day. They will catch balls from different angles, with different challenges at different speeds and different heights. These experiences translate perfectly into other sports with big cross-training benefits.
Simple ways Alumni Football Camp Skills translate to better hand-eye in many sports.
Basketball – passing to a moving target in tight quarters, passing with an arc or zip into a tight window, watching the ball into hands, catching and controlling hard, short passes in heavy traffic.
Hockey –making precise, hard passes to a moving target in a seam; catching fast moving pass onto your blade – often inches in the air, batting down saucer passes, deflecting shots for a goal.
Baseball – Judging fly balls or pop ups, watching the ball into glove or onto bat, quickly tracking fastball pitches
Agility and Footwork
NFL Alumni Football Camps feature a daily dose of agility challenges, using cones, ladders and regular one-one-one game competition through football skill challenge drills. The cuts, shuffles, quick feet, acceleration and deceleration drills help all sports in dramatic ways.
Simple ways Alumni Football Camp Skills translate to better agility and success in many sports.
Basketball – Defensive slides; crossover dribbles or defense against; fast first step
Hockey – Lateral cross overs to gain speed, tight turns or mohawk skating to protect the puck.
Soccer – Sharper cuts for 50-50 balls; zigzagging past opponents,
Baseball – infielders in position to field grounders while staying square.
Speed and Stamina Challenges
Driven by the excitement of competition or a stopwatch, our speed and stamina drills help young athletes find a quicker tempo and discover they have even greater strength. These drills not only increase an athletes speed and strength, well-conditioned athletes are far less likely to fall or twist to an injury due to fatigue.
Simple ways Alumni Football Camp Skills translate to better speed and success in many sports.
Basketball – Fast break speed or retreating quickly to defense,
Hockey – Repeated bursts…sustaining your top speed and agility for 40-second shift and recovering,
Soccer – A true endurance game where stronger lungs result in better production and more bursts.
Beware of the Hype
Some suggest being dedicated to “exclusively to one sport” is a way to the top. Research indicates multi-sport athletes go further in the long run.
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