10 Easy Ways to Improve your Lacrosse Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
- Lacrosse is a complex sport with many different elements. It can be confusing to figure out what to get better at, so today I'm breaking down 10 things you can do to improve your lacrosse game easily! Before we start:
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1. Use more fakes
Fakes aren't used enough in lacrosse. They help you deceive your defenders and goalies. This means more goals and assists. Use pass fakes to create open lanes or shot fakes to move the goalie before you shoot.
2. Keep your eyes and stick up
If you dodge with your head down, you're missing tons of easy passes that could help your team. Learn to dodge with your head up and sick up. If your stick is up, this means your defender has to respect you as a passer.
3. Focus on your recovery
One area of lacrosse that I know most people don’t pay attention to is recovery. This is the time in between your games and practices where you’re not playing and your body is trying to rest and get ready for the next time you play lacrosse.
4. Jump rope
In lacrosse, there’s not many shortcuts to getting better. But one shortcut I have found is the jumprope. If there’s one exercise you should be doing right now, without a doubt, the jumprope. Jumprope is pretty much magical for your footwork, conditioning and muslce endurance. It pretty much works out every part of your body, and it’s super easy to do.
5. Jump rope
One thing that we don’t do enough of in lacrosse is communicate with each other. There’s plenty of lacrosse games that I go to where it’s dead silent. That needs to change.
It doesn’t matter if you’re an attackman, defender or bench warmer, communication is key in lacrosse. Call out for the ball or tell your teammates if someone’s behind them, whatever it is just talk.
6. Watch more film
There’s much more lacrosse on TV and TH-cam than ever before, which means tons of opportunity for you to watch more film. One of the best ways to become great at lacrosse is by watching great college and pro players. Watch a game and focus on one or two players. See what they do with the ball and without the ball. Take notes and go practice some of their moves.
7. Long runs
I always did plenty of sprints during lacrosse practice, but one thing we always neglected was long runs. Long runs help you build stamina which will help you last the whole game. Pick a day each week where you know you won’t have a lacrosse game. Then commit to running for at least 35 minutes without stopping.
8. Go back to fundamentals
In lacrosse, there’s so many fun moves like behind the backs and between the legs that it’s easy to forget to focus on the fundamentals. Although learning another stick trick is cool, the best thing you could be doing right now is wallball. Or shooting.
9. Master one skill
I’ve noticed in lacrosse how easy it is to try to get a lot of things. You want to be the best outside shooter and really good at dodging and really good at passing. Yeah that’s great, but start by being AMAZING at one thing. Then you can expand.
10. Learn how to play good defense
No matter your position, it’s always a great idea to learn how to play basic defense. If you’re an attackman, you’ll play defense when you ride to try to get the ball back. If you’re a midfielder or defender, you’re playing plenty of defense. Even goalies play defense sometimes. - กีฬา
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i am getting embarrassed because i am bad at lacrosse, i feel like im being useless to the team, these videos are great tips!
Just keep working hard and you’ll get there
I feel you man, I've usually been one of the worst on my team, but just keep doing your best and you got nothing to be embarrassed about
@@jonas9156 thanks bro, but ive been recently getting really better and making much more friends now for being in lacrosse
@@mxstardd5391 awesome to hear dude, keep up the great work 💪
@@jonas9156 thanks dude
I am going into summer lacrosse first time ever, I got new lacrosse gear spent around 700$ on it as a first time starter, I’m doing a league and summer camp to get better, this video helped alot
I’m currently a sophomore in high school. Got pulled up but didn’t get much time at all. I’m trying to work my way up in becoming good to the point other teams look at me as a threat. These videos really help. But I gotta say one thing, in order to become a better player, you gotta be motivated.
Awesome video man! Lately I’ve been feeling like I’ve been left in the dust by my team lately but I’ve been motivated to get better and this video helped me a lot
I just started, thx for posting this tutorial! It helped a lot
Love this video!
Thanks for the great information.
This was very helpful
any specific tips to improve outside shooting? great video! Thank u
just shoot.
If u wanna get good at shooting underhand. Basically watch mac okeefe highlights. Go outside and shoot around for fun with intensity. Watch okeefe highlights again. But ur never gonna get those shots if u dont have the iq that okeefe has. U need open space to be able to wind up and shoot
reps, reps, reps
(and supervision from someone watching you shoot)
thanks for the help man! i will do these tricks at Lacrosse
thanks for these
thank you for the help
I’ve just recently got into the sport and is learning how to play and this helps me a lot. I’m a sophomore grinding to make it to my school team in the spring. If you have any tips comment down below pls
Sweet video
Can you put a video up on how to better on the defensive side of the ball?
I’m on JV and play crease and I know I can do super well in game, but in such a team oriented game I can’t seem to get the opportunity to prove myself. Does anyone have any tips.
This vid is goated
can you do another video about how to get to the pll
Me watching this at 4 am
Do a defense videos
any way to get better soon i’m trying lacrosse and i’m in the 5th grade and a lot of people are ahead of me
I'm a 7th grader and I kinda knew how u feel but I started wall balling and breathing correctly now I'm one of the best on my teams mostly cause I shoot from far and not a lot of people can guard me
When I was playing in 4th grade, my 5th grade teacher, who I didn’t know yet was one of our refs.
“you need to get 8 hours of sleep everyday” me at 2:30 am needing to wake up in 4 hours😐
Is there a way I can practice catching a bad pass?
Throw it hard against the wall and don’t aim, or try throwing off a tree
Reaction time really helps aswell I have a rebounder so I just throw harder and throw softer
What is outside shooting?
shooting from deep. 10 yrds out.
what if I practice countless hours every day but I am still just descent and I am not improving. It sorta feels like I'm getting worse
Fakes are free!
the best things in life are free, aren't they?
pov your whaching this before your gym class
Bro
or for water do 2/3 of your body weight in water!