Mental Reps

Dan Robinson has a new article up at Warriors' Haka, where he talks about the importance of off-season training, both physically and mentally. An excerpt:

Getting your mental reps in the film room right now is probably one of the most crucial things you have to do. Now is the time to actually spend hours looking at what you did through the spring practices. This is when Colt sits down with Coach (Dan) Morrison and goes through every bit of film, every read, getting up on the board, and drawing every read that every route contains.

In the Run ‘n’ Shoot, the offense is whatever the defense gives you. When you take the snap, every single decision you make on the field, you should have already made that decision 1,000 times in your head, and visualized it over and over in your mind.

Coach Morrison is great at that. He used to sit down with me and go through every single read, and he’s currently doing that with Colt, pre-camp. I spoke with Coach Morrison last night, and he tells me that he’s now making Colt teach the younger quarterbacks. If you want to do something and do it well, then learn how to teach it … now Colt is at the stage of maturity that he can teach the younger ones. That’s big-time, right there.

Great insight from Dan. Looking forward to Coach Jones answering the first round of "Ask Coach" questions at Warriors' Haka. Haven't asked Coach Jones a question yet? Be there!