Episode 30 - Counter Attack Philosophy with Ethan Damato

Off the Deck

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What is the add 2 drill?

Pat Obrien

3

What’re your thoughts on backstroke’s place in the counter attack? Coaches often say that rolling onto your back for a few strokes could cause you to lose your advantage - do you think that’s true?

Stephen Loomis

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What are some ways that you teach athletes when to push and take risks finishing the CA and when to pull back and run a patient offensive set?

Ian Davidson

5

Can you give some examples of goalie drills you utilize?

Pat Obrien

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You have an aside in your practice plan dedicated for goalies (but still has relevance to the objective). How much time are they spending focusing on their warm up/skills/passing before being added with the filed players? How much time would you reccommend having your goalies focus on what they need before coming into the fold?

Elyssa Hawkins

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How do you teach your athletes to read the differences/cues between reading Advantage Counterattack and Transition counter into half court?

Connor Levoff

8

Do you have a preference about which post fills in first when setting up a 4-2, on a full 6 man counter?

Anonymous Attendee

9

What are you thoughts on how to approach a game against another team that loves to push tempo (assuming youre a tempo pushing team too) - but they do it better (they beat you more / get more goals from counter)? Does this change your strategy in how you CA?

Paul Splitt

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Do you have strict parameters on the first outlet pass or do you let the players have freedom to make those decisions based on the situation?

Carin Crawford

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are there drills that you run to specifically focus on counter defense? or is this just taught naturally through the drill?

Beth Harberts

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Is Off the Deck on Spotify?

Elyssa Hawkins