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2 Lacrosse Passing Drills to Help You Improve
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2 Lacrosse Passing Drills to Help You Improve

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While a foundational part of a successful lacrosse player and team involves scoring more goals than your opponent, it’s just about impossible to do that all by yourself. After all, that’s why you’re part of a lax team! Working together as a unit makes it easier to keep the ball away from your opponents and seamlessly moving it down the field so players on the attack can do what they do best – score goals.

At GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps, players in attendance receive individualized lax training through the progressive curriculum we’ve put together. It can [Read More>]

2 Lacrosse Passing Drills to Help You Improvethewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:44+00:00

3 Things for First-Time Lacrosse Coaches to Remember
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3 Things for First-Time Lacrosse Coaches to Remember

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GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps are recognized as the national leader for lacrosse instruction and education. There are a number of reasons for that, too! We’ve been doing this for a long time – we’ve been around since 2001 and have had the pleasure of working with more than 65,000 camper who want to improve their lax skills.

To provide the best instruction to youth lax players, we know how important it is to bring in only the best coaches the sport has to offer. Our camp directors and coaches are among the most elite within [Read More>]

3 Things for First-Time Lacrosse Coaches to Rememberthewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:44+00:00

Beginning Lacrosse Player? Keep These Tips in Mind
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Beginning Lacrosse Player? Keep These Tips in Mind

thewixdr2026-02-15T21:16:06+00:00

Trying something new can be incredibly exciting, a little unnerving, or both at the same time. And guess what? That’s completely normal! Even if you’ve thought through your decision to start playing lacrosse and feel good about it, you’ll probably still feel nervous the first time you step onto the field. There’s nothing wrong with that – it just means you’re human and you care.

Here’s the truth: you probably won’t be incredible at lacrosse the first time you pick up a stick. But it’s all about progression. As long as you get better each time you practice, [Read More>]

Beginning Lacrosse Player? Keep These Tips in Mindthewixdr2026-02-15T21:16:06+00:00

Here Are 3 Tips (& 3 Drills) to Improve Your Lacrosse Attack Skills
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Here Are 3 Tips (& 3 Drills) to Improve Your Lacrosse Attack Skills

thewixdr2026-02-15T21:38:11+00:00

There are a number of keys to being successful in lacrosse. However, one of the most crucial points of all concerns shooting and goal scoring from those on attack because it’s awfully hard to win lax games when you can’t score more goals than your opponent!

Our GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps are structured in such a way that we have specific periods of time during camp that focus on improving your shooting and attack skills, but we also mix it into so many other areas of the game. Here are some of the skills our coaches will focus on [Read More>]

Here Are 3 Tips (& 3 Drills) to Improve Your Lacrosse Attack Skillsthewixdr2026-02-15T21:38:11+00:00

3 Most Essential Skills Every Lacrosse Player Needs to Know
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3 Most Essential Skills Every Lacrosse Player Needs to Know

thewixdr2026-02-15T21:21:38+00:00

At GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps, our directors make sure to spend time developing the mental and physical side of each player to help them reach the next level the following season and beyond. This is accomplished by bringing in people within the sport who play for national teams, top college programs, and other highly rated educational institutions. What’s really helpful is that they don’t just see themselves as coaches – they are role models representing the game they love, and they want to pass that love and passion down to the generations behind them.

Whether you’re participating in one [Read More>]

3 Most Essential Skills Every Lacrosse Player Needs to Knowthewixdr2026-02-15T21:21:38+00:00

Improve Your Lacrosse Shooting Skills With These 3 Tips (Plus a Drill)
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Improve Your Lacrosse Shooting Skills With These 3 Tips (Plus a Drill)

thewixdr2026-02-15T21:25:36+00:00

There are a number of keys to being successful in lacrosse. However, one of the most crucial points of all concerns shooting and goal scoring because, well, in order to win a lax game, a team has to score more goals than their opponent!

Our GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps are structured in such a way that we have specific periods of time during camp that focus on improving your shooting, but we also mix it into so many other areas of the game. Here are some of the skills our coaches will focus on at all locations across the [Read More>]

Improve Your Lacrosse Shooting Skills With These 3 Tips (Plus a Drill)thewixdr2026-02-15T21:25:36+00:00

How Women’s Lacrosse Players Can Cash in on 8-Meter Opportunities
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How Women’s Lacrosse Players Can Cash in on 8-Meter Opportunities

thewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00

There are certain scoring opportunities in lacrosse that are more advantageous than others. If you’re more of a beginner and aren’t totally sure about what the 8-meter arc is, then we’re here to break it down for you and how it relates to women’s lacrosse.

When an offensive player is fouled during the middle of a lacrosse game, they’re placed at one of the seven hash marks eight meters from the goal that’s the closest spot to where the foul occurred. Players inside the arc must clear out and be at least four meters away from the player [Read More>]

How Women’s Lacrosse Players Can Cash in on 8-Meter Opportunitiesthewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00

What Does it Take to Be a Tough Lacrosse Player?
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What Does it Take to Be a Tough Lacrosse Player?

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Depending on who you ask, the definition of toughness in the world of sports varies based on the situation. What one person thinks is toughness may or may not cross over into other sports. Even if an athlete seems to be naturally tough, it’s a quality that has to get honed over a period of time for it to really make a difference on the field or court.

Whenever we’re in the heat of the moment, athletes believe that they’re tough – until they use the benefit of hindsight to see that they could’ve been much tougher [Read More>]

What Does it Take to Be a Tough Lacrosse Player?thewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00

Which Lacrosse Position Is Best For You?
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Which Lacrosse Position Is Best For You?

thewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00

We’re proud that our GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps are open to lax players of all ages and abilities. Wanting to improve your lax game – both on and off the field – isn’t something just one type of player does! Whether you’re a beginner or a four-year varsity starter in high school, we guarantee that our top-notch coaching staffs – especially the one at our New Jersey Lacrosse Camp location – will find a way to help you improve your game before heading home for the remainder of summer.

But if you’re a beginner lacrosse [Read More>]

Which Lacrosse Position Is Best For You?thewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00

3 Bad Habits That Every Lacrosse Player Should Avoid
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3 Bad Habits That Every Lacrosse Player Should Avoid

thewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00

The old adage is that practice makes perfect, but it’s also true when we spin it the other way around. Lacrosse season can be a grind, so it’s not unusual for some bad habits to form along the way. The biggest key that we try to hit on at our Connecticut Lacrosse Camps each summer is to nip those bad habits in the bud as quickly as possible so they can become a distant memory.

This is likely part of the reason why GameBreaker Lacrosse Camps are viewed as the national leader for lax instruction [Read More>]

3 Bad Habits That Every Lacrosse Player Should Avoid thewixdr2025-01-07T16:36:45+00:00