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2 Lacrosse Passing Drills to Help You Improve
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 get boring to just run a bunch of lax drills over and over again in big groups. At all of our locations, including our Connecticut Lacrosse Camps, we have 10 specific skill clinics that ensure [Read More>]
3 Things for First-Time Lacrosse Coaches to Remember
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 the industry and have a long background of success in lacrosse. They’re passionate about passing along tips and tricks to help the next generation of lacrosse players, and some of their accomplishments include playing professionally and [Read More>]
Beginning Lacrosse Player? Keep These Tips in Mind
In many things in life – sports included – it’s the smallest of tweaks and adjustments that ends up making the largest difference in whatever you’re trying to accomplish. Lacrosse is no different in this respect, and it’s a big reason why the camp directors at our New Jersey Lacrosse Camps, along with all of our other locations, provide as much individual attention as possible to campers. It’s just about impossible to see small adjustments that lacrosse players need to make when a large group is all participating in one kind of drill at the same time. Every player is a little bit different and also responds to feedback in various ways. That’s why our GameBreaker Lax Camps are proud to offer the individualized attention to each camper that’s necessary [Read More>]
Here Are 3 Ways to Improve Your Lacrosse Attack Skills
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 at all locations across the country, like at our Connecticut Lacrosse Camps: shooting drills, ground balls, defense (team and individual), fast breaks, dodging, stick skills, triangle offense, clears, face-off and wing play, [Read More>]
3 Most Essential Skills Every Lacrosse Player Needs to Know
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 of our Massachusetts Lacrosse Camps or you’re planning to arrive at one of our many other locations across the country, there are certain aspects of the game all of our coaches work [Read More>]
2 Tips for High School Lacrosse Players
We spend a lot of time working on the physical part of being a better lacrosse player at all of our GameBreaker Lacrosse Camp locations across the country, but that’s not all we focus on during our time with campers each summer. A great example is at our New Jersey Lacrosse Camps – while our camp directors and coaches focus on helping players improve on the field, they also make sure to talk about the other details that go into being a great lacrosse player. This includes getting a greater understanding of team play and learning the concepts to help make their team better overall. Of course, this also helps build up a player’s leadership skills. That’s good because nobody is actually a “natural born leader” – those qualities are [Read More>]
