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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, enjoy and keep doing what you are doing.

Play-Practice-Play is the way to go, more touches and more fun.  Drills kill the fun and take the joy out of soccer[/quote][b]Our team, top team, strictly did this at U9/U10. It got old and kids didnt develop at the same rate of other clubs. [/b]They need some instruction during play part and there was no technical development. [b][u]Watching my kid "play" for more than half the practice has me questioning what we are paying the coach for.[/b][/u] I dont subscribe to the US Soccer handbook. There is a reason why we are where we are. There can be a balance of PPP and technical development.[/quote]

I agree. Play-Practice-Play is fine for rec and beginning travel for a period of time.  But, there should be development in there. I have watched hundreds of academy videos from other countries and they are not scrimmaging the whole time. I too wonder what I am paying the coach for when they just do rondos, small scrimmages and big scrimmages over and over.

We left one club at U10 because after 2 years of scrimmage heavy practices, the kids were not advancing at the same rate of other teams in the league and the score gap was getting wider.  The coaches at our last club did scrimmages for two reasons: The Tech Director was too busy to come supervise practices, so the coaches just did what they wanted. Some coaches put a lot of work into the practice set up.  While the coach on the next team would just scrimmage.   It really came down to what coach you got.  Also, the coach I knew had a very busy day job.  He would show up 5 min before practice, put out pug goals and scrimmage vests and that was the whole session...over and over and over.

I have had this exact conversation over and over:  
ParentA, "What are you guys doing for practice today?"
Coach B, "Oh, we are going to just let the kids scrimmage. They will like that and that will be easy to run."

-Coaches scrimmage because it is the easiest way to Coach.  It takes a lot of effort to design practices to work on skills and weaknesses and to constantly give the kids feedback.

We also have a coach who says, "I will not joystick your kids, the game is a great teacher."  This translates to I won't do much coaching, I will only facilitate scrimmages.  And I promise you none of your kids will be promoted, they will all stay at the same level and return to this team next year.

Finding the right coach is hard.  We have had a coaching bait-and-switch at tryouts 2 times. And sometimes you might know your coach ahead of time, but it takes about 2 months to realize they just fall into a rut and do the same thing over and over at practices.

Hopefully your club has a strong Technical Director or Director of Coaches and the club has some guidelines about what should go into practices and they will share that with you. If not, it really just depends on what the individual coach wants to do or the bare minimum they can get away with.   [/quote]

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