Southswell Sports

San Diego, CA
Solana Beach, CA
Fountain Valley, CA
Laguna Woods (Orange County), CA
Austin, TX 

Southswell Website

Lacrosse Plus

Encinitas, CA 

Lacrosse Unlimited

Long Island
Syracuse
Rochester
Connecticut
New Jersey
Massachusetts 

http://www.lacrosseunlimited.com/

Olympic Den

Long Island in Ronkonkoma and Franklin Square

website

Quickstix Lacrosse

Suffern, NY

Quickstix website

MadLax

McClain, VA
Alexandria, VA
Olney, MD 
Ashburn, VA 

Mad Lax website

QC Lax

Bridgeville, Pennsylvania

QC website

Tribal West Lacrosse

Sandy, Utah

Tribal West website

Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian economist who observed that 80 percent of his country’s wealth was held by 20 percent of the population.  

What the heck does that have to do with your lacrosse game?  Let’s explore the principle and see. 

This 80/20 distribution applies to countless relationships in the universe.  Recognizing the “vital few and trivial many” can change your life.  

For example, a business can skyrocket its profits when it realizes which 20% of the customers make 80% of the purchases.  Once these “vital few” are identified, the marketing, support, etc can be focused on them to maximize sales.  

Consider that only 20% of the material you study will make up 80% of the exam.  Imagine how well you would score if you focused most of your study time on this vital 20%.  

20% of the calories you consume will build 80% of your muscle mass.  On the flip side, 80% of the fat cells you store will come from just 20% of the foods you eat.  Champion body builders intake the vital few nutrients and cut out the trivial many.  

Now let’s apply the 80/20 distribution to lacrosse. 

• 80% of the goals are scored by only 20% of the players in the league

• Only 20% of the defensemen make 80% of the plays 

• Only 20% of the players on a team possess the ball 80% of the time

• 80% of scholarships go to only 20% of the players 

• Only 20% of the players get 80% of the playing time

How do you become one of the vital few on your team, in your league, your county, your state, the country, the world, the solar system?  

Start by practicing smarter.  Realize that 20% of the time you spend practicing will produce 80% of your results.  

Are you seeing the power of this concept now?  

If you had very little time to practice on your own, say only 15 extra minutes a day, you can still become better than 80% of the players if you know how to spend your time.  

You already know about the one activity which will produce 80% of your results because your coach has preached its benefits over and over.  This incredibly efficient activity is WALL BALL.  

No matter what position you play, wall ball is the fastest way to success.     

Ryan Powell, on the three Powells website, says that “stick skills are by far the most important facet of the game of lacrosse,” and guarantees that working on the wall will make you a better player.  

Paul Carcaterra says wall ball was, “The single most effective training technique that was implemented in my game.” 

NCAA coach Pat Myers asserts, “wall ball is the single most important thing you can do as a player, regardless of your position on the field.”  

When Pat Myers trains his division 1 lacrosse players, every workout begins with 7 specific wall ball exercises.  The first 30 minutes of Myers’ lacrosse training DVD is dedicated to showing a detailed demonstration of each exercise because the techniques are crucial to the success of any player, from beginner to advanced, goalie to attackman. 

Among the top players and coaches in the game, the consensus is clear:  If you want to get good FAST, hit the wall.  

Now Go Play!

You can learn more about Pat Myers and his 30 Days to Scoring Success training program at www.ScoreMoreGoals.com.

Style and Grace: Gary Gait

“Who Loves Short Shorts? We Love Short Shorts”

Anyone remember that ad campaign? I can’t recall the product, but the jingle is stuck in my head now. And so is the video itself – some real nice lady stems parading around the TV screen.

Then there was that mint song by the 69 Boys: “Look at them girls with the daisy dukes on. Come on baby, kick them daisies.” Don’t remember that one? Well I guess you weren’t lucky enough to be a teenager in the mid nineties. I think I’ll go download the ringtone when I’m done with this post.

To be fair, few images are finer than those conjured in the above 2 examples. But where are the televisions spots and lyrical masterpieces extolling the guys who aren’t afraid to flaunt some man thigh?

I write not to throw my sexuality in question, but to lament the disappearance of athletic “shorts.”

Today’s shorts are not that at all.

Aesthetics aside, a split dodge or between the legs dribble in basketball must have been much more efficient back in the day.

I bring this up because my middle school team complained this past season that their shorts were too small. Ahhhh, this brought back great memories of my Freshman year at Tufts (1998) when our uniforms were relics from the early 80s and our nut hugging brown trunks were fodder for the worst away game heckling I’ve ever experienced. But I digress. Back to my middle school team. I tried to convince my players that they were studs in these great uniforms and the girls would be watching them, not the opponents. It was no use.

Call me nostalgic, but you tell me which of these looks cooler, more stylish, more intimidating:

NO CONTEST, RIGHT?

Would you take a charge from Walt? PuhLease – Those quads would knock you unconscious.

And those socks. Where did those go?

I’m watching ESPNU’s rebroadcast of the April 12 Duke Virginia game.

With about 2:45 left in quarter 3 Zach Howell executed a perfect question mark dodge and beat Bud Petit with a high shot.

In the 30 Days to Scoring Success lacrosse dvd, Pat Myers walks you through the dodge.  It is Myers’ favorite because, as he explains, it is a dodge you can always go to to get room for a shot if you have it in your arsenal.

If you have this Duke Virginia game on DVR, watch the dodge a few times.  You will notice that in Howell’s execution as he rolls back he does not switch hands immediately.  Instead, he uses his body to shield his stick as his feet get him and his hands separation, then transfers the stick and fires.  This important point is something Myers emphasizes in the instructional DVD.

ESPNU is great isn’t it?

The seed for this DVD germinated in 2003 at the US Lacrosse Convention in Philadelphia. There I was fortunate to attend a seminar by Pat Myers, who was then an offensive coach at Cornell University. Myers shared with the coaches in attendance the individual workout program he uses to train his division 1 players.

After Myers’ presentation, many of the coaches including myself were in line to speak with Myers, and we all had the same question: Do you have this on DVD? We wanted to study Pat’s drills and training sessions and also share them directly with our own players. Unfortunately for us, we had to go off our written notes and memory because Myers did not have the program on DVD.

Well, now he does. Last summer the stars aligned and we were able to get Pat Myers out to San Diego where we filmed his Blueprint for Offensive Skill Development. After many months of hard work by our director, directors of photography, editors and graphic designers, 30 Days to Scoring Success is now available at www.ScoreMoreGoals.com.

It is brought to you by Lacrosse Junkie Productions, a company dedicated to making premium coaching available to every lacrosse player.

Among the Division 1 coaches who know Pat Myers, he is considered a bright, up and coming star of the coaching world.

Frank Fedorjaka, head coach at NCAA Division 1 Bucknell University, says:
“Pat is one of the best developmental coaches in the game today. He comes from a family of coaches and he thrives on the ‘little things’.”

Jeff Tambroni, head coach at Cornell University says:
“His attention to detail and knowledge in our offensive skill developmental program was instrumental in our teams success.”

We are confident you will get great results from this workout program. In fact, we guarantee it.

Better than money back guarantee:

If for any reason you are not satisfied with DVD, you can return it for a full refund. If you perform even 50% of the workout on Pat Myers’ video, and you do not score more goals in your next lacrosse season, return it for a 110% refund.

Keep Laxin’

Jimmy Mandler
President, Lacrosse Junkie Productions

Austin Winter tallied 9 point in Bucknell’s 12-10 win over Towson.  Nice work by the Bison.

Buy this lacrosse dvd or get more info at ScoreMoreGoals.com

We’ve been hard at work for the past year and are happy to announce the release of the new DVD 30 Days to Scoring Success.

It’s an independent production, and while we don’t have the big marketing budget that is behind all the other lacrosse DVDs out there, the production values are top quality.

You can learn more at www.ScoreMoreGoals.com

Help our grassroots effort to spread the word. If you like what you see at the website, forward to link to your lacrosse friends.

Thanks for checking us out!

Jimmy Mandler
Lacrosse Junkie Productions

Coming this winter, Pat Myers, offensive coach at Division 1 Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, breaks down the mechanics of shooting in his first instructional video, titled:

30 Days to Scoring Success
Your Blueprint for Offensive Skill Development

Includes:

• Fun drills that isolate different aspects of your shot and focus on POWER
• A step by step of 6 different dodges that will get you more scoring chances
• Live coaching bonus material

Visit www.ScoreMoreGoals.com, and enter your name to win a free copy.