Coaches,

Thanks so much for the interest in having me come out to your areas and do coaching clinics.

LAXCOACHMIKE COACHING CLINICS
YOUTH, REC, HS COACHES

Here are the topics we cover in the classroom, as well as on the field,

The Laxcoachmike Lacrosse Coaches Clinic,

* The Changing Nature of the Game and Equipment

* The Changing Nature of Kids and Players

* The Changing Nature of Practice Focus and Planning

* Touches, 200 in Hour One of Practice, see how we do it…

* Why Pace of Practice is Critical

* Why Every Drill Must Emulate a Game Scenario

* Offensive and Defensive Schemes

* Riding and Clearing

* Specialty Scenarios

Here is the feedback from a recent clinic in Chicago…

“As you know we are building a program from the ground up. I can’t tell you how great the classroom and field time was for our coaching staff. We are fortunate some of our coaches have high school or college playing experience. We all learned the game in the old school way of doing things, and have been teaching the game in the same fashion. The game has changed, why hadn’t we?

Your approach to this generation of lacrosse player combined with your ability to reiterate information collected from your interviews has changed our entire program’s approach for the better!…..much better!

We have had only one week of practice since the clinic. I have received an email from every coach commenting on what a difference this new approach makes to their practice.

The coaches are re-energized and excited teach these new concepts to our players. I can’t wait to see the progression.

Thank you so much for making the trip north, your students in the Windy City are looking forward to doing this again next year!”

P.S. My ball budget just tripled!

Mike Black

River City Lacrosse

Three hrs in the classroom with the coaches featuring PPT and some video, then a 90 min or two hr practice on the field with 20-25 players or so… this would be for the 20-25 coaches in your network, and yes you may film if you like,

The coaches in your network would also receive access included in the clinic fees, to any one of my four eBooks, the descriptions and contents are described in the products section of the site, and we have sold hundreds of eBooks and videos, and the response has been great as well as humbling,

* Changing Philosophies in Coaching Lacrosse $34 ea, 52 pages

* Coaching Youth Lacrosse $19 ea, 19 pages

* Customized Practice Plans $19 ea, 25 pages

* Specialty Lacrosse Drills for Lacrosse Coaches $19 ea, 43 pages

Fees: Discounted for any Members of our site, Free or Premium Members,
$ 650 plus travel expenses,

I have also provided more of a resume on me, and finally, following the clinic, and if you are happy with the work, I will ask you to supply a brief testimonial that I might use in my marketing materials and/or website,

Let me know your thoughts,

And thanks so much!

Coach Mike
Cell 770 335 2120

In January of 2009, Muetzel founded, www.laxcoachmike.com, the largest on line reference center website exclusively for lacrosse coaches in the country with over 1,800 plus member lacrosse coaches across North America and often receiving over 15,000 or more page views per month on his articles and podcast interviews. He has spent over 100 hours in one-on-one personal interviews/dialog with top NCAA and High School Lacrosse Coaches on the evolving nature of effective lacrosse practice plans, and how to engage today’s players in practice.

He currently serves as Director of Coaching for the Copperhead National Travel Teams as well as a coaching consulting role for a number of high school varsity programs in Atlanta and as a speaker for local Coaching Clinics as well as writing a popular lacrosse-coaching column for Laxpower.com.

Mike continues to serve the community as a Lay Preacher in the Lutheran Church in Atlanta.Over 35 years of successful lacrosse experience with a corporate background in organizational development, teambuilding, and engagement.

He played High School lacrosse at Worthington HS (74) in Columbus Ohio, Captain, on a Midwest Championship team, selected as All Midwest, and blessed and honored to play under legendary High School Coach, John Galipault. Muetzel was recruited and played NCAA Lacrosse at both Ohio Wesleyan DIII as well as Bowling Green State University DI, and a member of the All Midwest College All Star Team in 1979, Cleveland Lacrosse Club until the age of 38, winning 2 Midwest Championships, and a 2nd Place finish Hamburg NY National Club Tournament. Muetzel was selected to play for the Men’s All Star Team representing the Midwest in the early years of the Vail National July 4th tournaments, and also served two years as President of the Worthington Alumni Lacrosse Association giving scholarship funds to HS Lacrosse players in need.

2005 to 2008, Named as Head Coach of a new HS Varsity program in Georgia, within four short years McIntosh went to the State Championship only to lose to State Power Lovett in Double OT, 7-6. In 2007, Muetzel was voted by his peer coaches in Georgia, US Lacrosse Coach of the Year.

Muetzel continues to work with young players each year and was named Head Coach of Team Georgia U15 for the summer of 2008, and Head Coach of the Copperhead U 17/19 Elite Teams in 2008/9/10. In January 2010 The Copperhead team coached by Muetzel won the National Championship in the Dicks Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions for the Rising Stars Division with wins over Krunch, Rutgers Leading Edge and Burning River. His teams have faced the best Club Lacrosse Teams in North America including Team Florida, Baltimore Crabs, Baltimore Trilogy, Connecticut Chargers, Kanienkehakah Krunch Tribe, Ontario Edge, New Westminster-British Columbia, and many others. In his two-year tenure the last two years, Coaching the Copperhead travel team, his teams have won nine different tournaments across the east coast, including the U17 Dick’s National Championship.

Muetzel has been asked to be Head Coach in four different Georgia Varsity All Star Classic events with a record of 3-1. He has been asked to coach in camps with nationally recognized college lacrosse coaches from across the country. Mike wrote and produced a DVD Series for Coaches; Coaching Youth Lacrosse with College Drills, and has authored four eBooks, Coaching U13 Lacrosse, Changing Philosophies in Coaching Lacrosse, Specialized Lacrosse Drills and Customized Practice Plans.

Mike is also the author of They’re Not Aloof…Just Generation X, Unlock the Mysteries to Human Capital Management, which has been popular with top companies and universities in the country ranging from Fed Ex to the FAA. He has provided keynote messages to the Motorola, Time Warner, AT&T, AACSB, Purdue EMBA Graduates among many other University speaking engagements. His research on the younger generations has become an integral part of his coaching philosophies. In addition, CBS Sportsline.com has referenced him as an expert on the changing nature of today’s players.

Comments on Mike…

“He is passionate about lacrosse, a student of the game, a Former Coach of the Year, he took a four-year program to the State Championship (McIntosh) and frankly is a talented and GREAT lacrosse coach. He can provide practice plans, technical instruction, scouting reports, motivation, and access to the best coaches Division I NCAA in the country. If you want someone who can take your program to the next level then why not consider a coach who has been there and can get your program there? I’m not promoting Mike because he’s my good friend, I’m promoting him because that is what I would do if I was in your situation.”

Pete Cramblet, Lacrosse Hall of Fame

The information for the evolving philosophies is not mine, but from the 50+ hours of interviews regarding practice plans from the contributing coaches to our website,

Coach Danowski, Duke DI Champs
Coach Pietramala, Johns Hopkins
Coach Pressler, Bryant
Coach Meade, Navy
Coach Jez, CW Post DII Champs
Coach Daly, Tufts DIII Champs
Coach Cerino, Limestone
Coach Starsia, University of Virginia
Coach Toomey, Loyola
Coach Beville, Cortland State
Coach Bates, Princeton
Coach Cottle,
Coach Myers, Ohio State
Coach Alberici, Army
Coach Paul, U of M, MCLA Champs
Coach Zimmerman, UMBC
Coach Tiffany, Brown
Coach Pilate, Roanoke
Coach Marr, Albany
Coach Seth Tierney, Hofstra
Coach Bill Tierney, Denver
Coach Hank Janczyk, Gettysburg
Coach Roy Simmons, Syracuse
Coaches Gallagher and Popelar,
Coach Wolford, Upper Arlington
Coach Corrigan, Notre Dame
Coach Cannella, U Mass
Coach Berkman, Salisbury
Coach Kerwick JU,
Coach Cantabene, Stevenson
Coach Tambroni, Penn State
Coach Sheehan, LeMoyne
Coach Sowell, Stony Brook
Coach Shay, Yale
Coach Ryan, Mercyhurst
Coach Urick, Georgetown
Coach Seaman, Towson
Anthony Kelly, FOGO, Asst Coach Ohio State
Coach Shillinglaw, Delaware
Coach Caravana, Denison
Coach Garber, Loomis, Rochester Rattlers, Asst.
Coach Koudelka, Lynchburg
Coach Jeff Goldberg
Coach Shriver, Boys Latin
Coach Towers, Dartmouth
Coach Murphy, Penn
Coach Rostan, Hampden Sidney
Coach Wojcik, Harvard

NEW EBOOK!!
Specialty Drills for Lacrosse Practice

We have received a ton of emails asking for help in these specific or specialty areas for lacrosse drills. Many lacrosse coaches have access to a lot of material on lacrosse shooting drills, or offensive plays…

But lacrosse coaches keep asking us, “How do we do meaningful lacrosse drills, or defensive lacrosse drills, with our poles, while our offense is working at the other end?” And watching lazy long passes for 20 minutes just does not seem to cut it…

Or, if you are like me, you recognize the critical nature of face offs, and face off lacrosse drills, yet it is not my area of experience or real expertise…

Or I want to get away from lacrosse line drills, and focus on touches, but I need some new ideas for lacrosse warm up drills…

This eBook is a little different than our other eBook products in that we want to focus on some additional lacrosse drills specifically designed to enhance a team’s skill set in different specific game situations. I think of them as Specialty Drills in that they are not necessarily team drills for the entire team but designed to focus on unique elements that contribute to the ‘whole’ if you will. Some of the drills are from articles on the site, some of the lacrosse drills are from the interviews, and one or two from the earlier eBooks… but the Bookmark Page will make it an easy reference guide for you…

Most of the teams whose coaches are members of our site often are limited to a single coach with meaningful experience or for some possibly a coach and a half, if you know what I mean. So the drills are relatively simple in that they can be run by a single coach who is doing the warm ups, or while one coach is with the offense doing shooting drills, a single coach can work with the poles.

We also received a lot of comments from the Customized Practice Plan eBook asking us to provide the thought or strategy behind the drills, in addition to just the diagrams…. understanding that the college coaches have taught us to directly emulate game scenarios with every drill, as well as explain ‘why’ to the players. So in this eBook, we do a little more explaining as well as diagrams, with creative ideas to add variations to the drills.

What is in this 40 page eBook…?

General Warm Up Drills

Star Passing Drill
3 Man, 2 Ball Short Passing
3 Man GB Pick Up
4 Corner Give & Go
4 Man, 2 Ball Sideline to Sideline

Drills for Defensemen
Sideline to Sideline GB
Sideline to Sideline GB Lateral
Defense Footwork Drills
Defense Footwork Over Pipe I
Defense Footwork Step Over 2 Man
Defense Footwork, Sprint to X, Recover
Wherever Pass Drill
Wherever, Hockey Style
Defense, Keep Away Knock Down
Defense Knock Down Notre Dame Style
Re-Direct
Re-Direct for Pre-Game
Re-Direct to 3V2
4V3 Box Drill, by Cage
Skip Pass Take-a-Way
Slide Spoke Drill, Stony Brook
1V1 General Drill
V” Drill & Variations
Baby V Drill
Grown Up V Drill
Sideline V Drill

Face Off Drills

Popover
1V1 Variations
Anthony Kelly, Back to Back Drill
Anthony Kelly Butt End War
Anthony Kelly Wrecking Ball

As with all of our materials, your satisfaction is 100% guranteed. If you do not think you got a great value for your money, or the ideas for these drills and ideas you may get for new drills, just let me know within a week, and I will refund your entire purchase price. No risk, no hassle.

The retail price on the eBook is $29.97

Discount Offer $19.77

Important Note:

After you decide to purchase the virtual product, you will be directed to our shopping cart with e-junkie. You have the option of paying with your PayPal Account or by credit card. And as always, with our virtual products, we are counting on your honesty not to distribute or reproduce, as they are our copyrighted materials…

At the end of the process when you click, submit or purchase (it may take a minute,) you will then receive an email from us (via e-junkie) with the download link. I think it will offer five attempts to download… If you happen to miss the download, just shoot me an email mike@laxcoachmike.com and we will get you fixed up! You can add to the cart or check out, but please consider all the eBooks, they come directly from the great stuff offered by top coaches in our website library… Thanks!

One of the many things we have learned in our over 50 hours of interviews with the top NCAA Lacrosse coaches in the country is that they have changed the way they practice — dramatically. We have taken those philosophies and their drills and put them into a five-day template.

We have customized these practices to work for High Schools and Rec Coaches who do not have a coaching staff, or maybe even an assistant coach. All of these practices designed for intermediate skilled teams, feature drills that are applicable for all team members, and can be run with one or two coaches.

This updated 39 page eBook features five specific days of lacrosse practice plans, including a schedule of each day down to the minute, the amount of touches each player will get per drill, and per practice, and a drawing or schematic of each drill to make it easy for you to work into your practices. We feature 26 drills, and over 250 touches per day, per player with this plan.

In addition, even though each of these top coaches has a unique style there are some undeniable common characteristics of their practices.

1. Preparation: You need a plan, at least for the day, or maybe even for the week, or early season, mid-season, day before games, etc.

2. Short Duration of Drills: All of the top coaches suggest that the short attention span of the players is critical, as well as short lines in drills, quick rotations, and as many players engaged as possible. NCAA coaches run their drills from a minimum of seven minutes to a maximum of 12-15 minutes per drill, maximum.

3. All Drills MUST Emulate Game Situations: All of the coaches in our research consistently talk about drills that are snapshots of game scenarios. They might be just seven to fifteen seconds, but realistically prepare the kids for real game situations.

4. Keep it Fun and Competitive: Every coach we have talked to regarding practice has discussed keeping the practices fun as well as competitive and moving. No one likes to stand around and the kids will improve significantly more by doing, rather than watching. I think five or six of the drills are also featured in our eBook, Changing Philosophies in Coaching Lacrosse, but presented here as part of a detailed plan, some are in our article library from Coaches, but again presented as part of a progressive plan in this eBook.

3 Man Full Field Pass
Circle Drills
Monkey in the Middle
Bucket Shooting
Drive & Roll RT & LFT
2 Man C Cut RT & LFT
Pass Drive to X, Cutter
Gr Ball Box Drill 2 station
7V7
Belly Drill
2 Man Full Field Pass
Channel Pass Shooting
3V2 4 Sides
4V4, 4V3
Add One w Face Offs
6V6 Pressure Drill
3V3 Midfield Lock On
Diagonal Pass Shooting
4v4 2 sets each
3V2 70 Yds
10V10 Games, 1 goal or 3 min
JailBreak
1V1 General Drill
2V2 Behind
‘Star’ Gr Ball Drill
‘Y’ Drill 4V4
4V4 Full Field

And I recently added five additional drills for more advanced teams,

The retail price on the eBook is $29.97

Discount Offer $19.77

Important Note:

After you decide to purchase the virtual product, you will be directed to our shopping cart with e-junkie. You have the option of paying with your PayPal Account or by credit card. And as always, with our virtual products, we are counting on your honesty not to distribute or reproduce, as they are our copyrighted materials…

At the end of the process when you click, submit or purchase (it may take a minute,) you will then receive an email from us (via e-junkie) with the download link. I think it will offer five attempts to download… If you happen to miss the download, just shoot me an email mike@laxcoachmike.com and we will get you fixed up! You can add to the cart or check out, but please consider all the eBooks, they come directly from the great stuff offered by top coaches in our website library… Thanks!