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Dave Cisar

The Winning Youth Coaching Podcast: Youth Sports | Coaching | Parenting | Family Resources

Michael Phillips

David Klein

Rob Bell

Rob Jones

Randy Jackson

Jon Gordon

Shannon Evans

John Wooden

Sam Walker

John O’Sullivan

Vickie Brett

Amanda Selogie

Pat Williams

Alan Stein

Emily Cohen

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Clint Schumacher

What does it take to be a winning youth coach? Listen in as Clint Schumacher shares coaching stories and discusses his journey to becoming a successful youth coach.Clint was raised in Nashville, TN. Clint is an Attorney and now lives outside of Dallas, Texas. He has been coaching flag and tackle football over the last 7 years. Clint played football, basketball, and track growing up. Clint is married and has 3 sons, ages 12, 10, and 7.Twitter: @J_ClintListen in ITunes: Itunes linkListen in Stitcher: Stitcher link Coaching/Leadership Quote	‘Put aside your positional authority to demand, and think about your relational credibility to expect’ – from 2 Timothy in the Bibleclick to tweet!Coaching your own Kid	Clint shares a story of being too hard on his own kidMy ‘Cringe’ Moment	In dealing with an assistant coach that was being too hard on his own son, Clint regrets he ‘let that go’ and didn’t correct that situation with assertivenessMy ‘Ah-Ha Moment’	Learned from Dave Cisar: Conducting everything at a much faster pace. Teach against air and instead of running a play every 2 or 3 minutes, run 4 plays per minute.Teaching Children &amp; Keeping it Fun	Break everything down into small pieces – A football stance can be broken down into 5 micro-steps. Use visual images, using kid’s terms, so it’s easy for the kids to remember.	Clint will bring out a boom box for a segment of practice to lighten the mood and keep things fun.	Speedball – Wide open, fast-paced frisbee football – This is also great ‘hidden conditioning’Coaching Resources	HUDL – Clint uses HUDL to teach, as well as to share the game films with parents and grandparents	Dumcoach.com – Great coaching forum	Coachsomebody.com - Football forum	USAFootball.com – Videos and drillsDiscipline	2 things they punish whole team for:1 – Lack of effort2 – Jumping offsidesEverything else is case-by-case. Making kids sit out is one of the most effective punishments.	HUGE IDEA #1: Criticism sandwich – Sandwich criticism between praiseReward and RecognitionHUGE IDEA #2:	Practice Warrior – every practice they have a blue jersey that is lettered ‘practice warrior,’ and whoever is best teammate get to wear jersey next practice	Helmet stickers – If team accomplishes all 4 goals for the game, everyone gets a sticker:	1 – Win the game	2 – Score 26 points	3 – Hold the other team to 7 points or less	4 – Win the turnover battle	Individual stickers: ‘hidden victories in a game’:	1 – Pancake block	2 – Anyone who forces or recovers a fumble/interception	3 – If a back carries out such a good fake that he gets tackledCharacter quality of the week – 4 kids win each week – the 4 kids that win that week are captains for the gameInspiring Story	Clint prayed in the offseason for some kids who came from tougher backgrounds so they could impact them – he has 2 kids on this year’s team that they have really poured intoWinning	Winning is important – but not because of the scoreboard – more importantly it is a grading of your processThe One that Got Away	Clint’s 2nd grade flag-football team just lost a heartbreaker on a last second play – but he was extremely proud of the great way they competedCoaching/Leadership Motivation	Books: ‘Inside-out Coaching’, ‘Season of Life’ – both by/about Joe Ehrmann	Quote: ‘Put aside your positional authority to demand, and think about your relational credibility to expect’ – from 2 Timothy in the BibleParting Advice	Many kids will remember their first coach – are you going to feed positive qualities into them, or negative onesInterview Links / Promotional PartnersHUDLReady to be an Awesome Youth Coach? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter:

What does it take to be a winning youth coach? Listen in as Clint Schumacher shares coaching stories and discusses his journey to becoming a successful youth coach. Clint was raised in Nashville, TN. Clint is an Attorney and now lives outside of Dallas, Texas. He has been coaching flag and tackle football over the last 7 years. Clint played football, basketball, and track growing up. Clint is married and has 3 sons, ages 12, 10, and 7. Twitter: @J_Clint Listen in ITunes: Itunes link Listen in Stitcher: Stitcher link   Coaching/Leadership Quote 	‘Put aside your positional authority to demand, and think about your relational credibility to expect’ – from 2 Timothy in the Bible click to tweet! Coaching your own Kid 	Clint shares a story of being too hard on his own kid My ‘Cringe’ Moment 	In dealing with an assistant coach that was being too hard on his own son, Clint regrets he ‘let that go’ and didn’t correct that situation with assertiveness My ‘Ah-Ha Moment’ 	Learned from Dave Cisar: Conducting everything at a much faster pace. Teach against air and instead of running a play every 2 or 3 minutes, run 4 plays per minute. Teaching Children &amp; Keeping it Fun 	Break everything down into small pieces – A football stance can be broken down into 5 micro-steps. Use visual images, using kid’s terms, so it’s easy for the kids to remember. 	Clint will bring out a boom box for a segment of practice to lighten the mood and keep things fun. 	Speedball – Wide open, fast-paced frisbee football – This is also great ‘hidden conditioning’ Coaching Resources 	HUDL – Clint uses HUDL to teach, as well as to share the game films with parents and grandparents 	<a href="http://Dumcoach.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dumcoach.com</a> – Great coaching forum 	<a href="http://Coachsomebody.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coachsomebody.com</a> - Football forum 	<a href="http://USAFootball.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">USAFootball.com</a> – Videos and drills Discipline 	2 things they punish whole team for: 1 – Lack of effort 2 – Jumping offsides Everything else is case-by-case. Making kids sit out is one of the most effective punishments. 	HUGE IDEA #1: Criticism sandwich – Sandwich criticism between praise Reward and Recognition HUGE IDEA #2: 	Practice Warrior – every practice they have a blue jersey that is lettered ‘practice warrior,’ and whoever is best teammate get to wear jersey next practice 	Helmet stickers – If team accomplishes all 4 goals for the game, everyone gets a sticker: 	1 – Win the game 	2 – Score 26 points 	3 – Hold the other team to 7 points or less 	4 – Win the turnover battle 	Individual stickers: ‘hidden victories in a game’: 	1 – Pancake block 	2 – Anyone who forces or recovers a fumble/interception 	3 – If a back carries out such a good fake that he gets tackled Character quality of the week – 4 kids win each week – the 4 kids that win that week are captains for the game Inspiring Story 	Clint prayed in the offseason for some kids who came from tougher backgrounds so they could impact them – he has 2 kids on this year’s team that they have really poured into Winning 	Winning is important – but not because of the scoreboard – more importantly it is a grading of your process The One that Got Away 	Clint’s 2nd grade flag-football team just lost a heartbreaker on a last second play – but he was extremely proud of the great way they competed Coaching/Leadership Motivation 	Books: ‘Inside-out Coaching’, ‘Season of Life’ – both by/about Joe Ehrmann 	Quote: ‘Put aside your positional authority to demand, and think about your relational credibility to expect’ – from 2 Timothy in the Bible Parting Advice 	Many kids will remember their first coach – are you going to feed positive qualities into them, or negative ones Interview Links / Promotional Partners HUDL Ready to be an Awesome Youth Coach? Sign up for our free weekly newsletter:

WYC 023 Youth Football – Clint Schumacher talks youth football and how he implemented Dave Cisar’s Winning Youth Football System