Joe Spallina

00:32 Intro to Joe Spallina and His Philosophy on Skill

-Coach Spallina backround

-College coaching

-Youth coaching

-Team USA

-Stoney Brook Women's lacrosse

-Love the game

-Skill work in practice

-Play fast

-Mechanics

-Avoiding self inflicted wounds

-Possession drills

10:32 Shooting

-Teaching proper shooting

-Step down shooting drills

-Mental side of shooting

-Practicing where you shoot from in games

-Learning how to swing hard

-Form and mechanics

-Form shooting vs deceptive shooting and its evolution

-Low high wind up

-Behind the back feeding

23:31 Physicality in Dodging

-More of it in a high level offense

-Contact shooting drills

-Pass first

-Girls playing box lacrosse

-The benefits of box lacrosse

31:50 Being Different By Learning From Everything

-Professional Development

-Watching press conferences

-Quest to being better

33:55 Theory of Girls Playing With a Boys Stick

-Low success rate with a bad stick

-Boys use girls sticks so why not the other way around?

-Helps with learning curve

-Jamie using a girls stick

38:57 Two Man Game

-MLL stats

-Progression in the women's game

-Big/big vs big/little

-2 man from box translating into the women's game

-Pass down pick down vs up picks both boys and girls

-Teaches IQ

-Opens the play up

-Picking your own man

48:51 How Much Youth Players are Playing for Coach Spallina?

-Younger = more time

-Month of August is a dead period

-September is individual

-2 days a week in October and a few weekends

-November - few tournaments

-Season starts with box in the winter

-Summer practice schedule

-MLL style rosters

-October-June: 3 days a week

-Multi sport athletes

1:03:02 Development Models

-Summer tradition of Box Lacrosse in Canada

-Play a lot of lacrosse

-High quality environment

-Shooting goalies

-Backyard lacrosse

-Pick up games in practice

-Development from pick up games

-Solution to not being able to play for a great team

-Different IQ's