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Highlight Tape Disasters

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Yeah I called her up. She gave me a bunch of crap about me not listening to her, or something. I don’t know, I wasn’t really paying attention.

High school players and parents listen very closely because I really don’t want to travel down this road again next fall. Putting your highlight tape online is a great idea. Coaches from all over the country can watch your three to seven minute long video from any where in the country.

Here are several problems I deemed to be obvious to avoid but apparently still plague modern man.

Music

Don’t use any! No one wants to ship up to Boston anymore and I especially don’t want to be thunder struck. Remember the Bratton’s highlight tape? They really back up their musical choice, didn’t they? (It was a Puff Daddy song.)

Sure, I can mute your musical selection but wouldn’t you rather not have the coach annoyed with you before he even watches you play?

Extended Highlights

Video editors don’t seem to know the definition of an assist. Please instruct them so I don’t have to watch your son pass the ball to a middie who dodges seven times and then scores. That’s not an assist. That’s not a highlight.

Film Quality

Some video guy in Pittsburgh charged parents upwards of $800 for a highlight tape. Granted he did a good job but I imagine other people around the country are charging similar prices. Make sure you get your money’s worth before the video hits the online community.

This is an actual screen shot of a highlight tape I watched yesterday.

First of all, that’s a terrible angle. Second of all, who in their right mind thought putting something that looked as clear and as distinct as that clip on a highlight tape was a good idea?

Shame on the video services company. Parents have to know better though too whether they paid someone else to shoot the video or they did it themselves. That video is a mess.

Tripods go with out saying.

Spot Shadows

Necessary. Imperative. No excuse not to include them.

Do you want coaches eyes looking at you or drifting of to your teammates? Do you want me to know who you are during every highlight or being confused and having to pause and rewind?

Perhaps those are aesthetics. Maybe some coaches are curious to learn your musical tastes and maybe some coaches prefer blurry footage. I don’t. That’s just me, I’m a first team MCLA head coach. What do I know?

Here’s something I think every MCLA and NCAA coach can agree upon.

Include contact information in your highlight tape.

Once more.

Include contact information in your highlight tape.

If I watch your video on YouTube and you fail to include a phone number or email address, how am I supposed to reach out to you?

Sure, I can track down your high school coach and hope he has to time to answer my requests. Sure, I can contact the YouTube user AvegnedSevenfoldLAXBro and hope he puts me in touch with the recruit who’s film I just watched. But, now you are making me work much harder than necessary.

Nothing could be worse than watching a highlight film with all the aforementioned problems only to reach the end and find no reward (contact info) for my troubles.

Training

No idea why but I loved teaching this footwork to goalies during the summer.

Probably because it was a little next level compared to, “Don’t forget to step.”

This man helped ruin my life this spring.

Enjoy playing for the Blues sans Oshie.

Notes

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About the Author

Tumbas is entering his fourth season as editor of 412 Lax. He was a part of the first ever Wooster team to reach the NCAA tournament in 2004 and later finished his playing career at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently, Tumbas is the head coach at Indiana University and also serves as director of the American Revolution Lacrosse Club.

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  • http://twitter.com/therealpatriley the real pat riley

    Burdick is a great goalie coach. Guy did his college thesis on the most efficient way to play the position from a movement standpoint. He coached my college goalie coach, who taught me the same way, and it’s the style I still use 4 years after I last played for him. The proof of his brilliance is the fact that he used the word “equidistant” in the video. Can’t count how many times I’ve taken a shot off the chest or dome while playing a feed or a drive from X that exact way. The best part about his style is that it doesn’t require extremely quick reflexes…it’s all about your form.

  • http://twitter.com/therealpatriley the real pat riley

    Burdick is a great goalie coach. Guy did his college thesis on the most efficient way to play the position from a movement standpoint. He coached my college goalie coach, who taught me the same way, and it's the style I still use 4 years after I last played for him. The proof of his brilliance is the fact that he used the word “equidistant” in the video. Can't count how many times I've taken a shot off the chest or dome while playing a feed or a drive from X that exact way. The best part about his style is that it doesn't require extremely quick reflexes…it's all about your form.

  • GVlaxcoachB

    Could not agree more! Trying to track players on the field during long periods of play is awful when spot shadows or circles are not used.

    Brilliant Puff Daddy reference about the Bratton twins highlight tape… “we aint…goin, no where…” I’d like to see them stay healthy throughout the year and live up to the hype as seniors…we shall see.

  • GVlaxcoachB

    Could not agree more! Trying to track players on the field during long periods of play is awful when spot shadows or circles are not used.Brilliant Puff Daddy reference about the Bratton twins highlight tape… “we aint…goin, no where…” I'd like to see them stay healthy throughout the year and live up to the hype as seniors…we shall see.