February 2005

Technology Newsletter for Coaches Volume 1 - Number 4

Coach!

Welcome to Braintree Athletic Systems fourth technology newsletter of 2005.

We really hope that the information in this newsletter will help you, your team and coaching staff. If you have a question or topic that you would like covered send us a note at newsletter@btathletics.com

In this edition we will be looking at the characteristics of a good film study, the care and feeding of DVDs and CDs, how to create a film study that allows you to analyze offensive play performance versus a specific defensive front and a short tutorial on creating multi-topic DVDs.

10 Characteristics of Great Film Studies

by Chad Fulk

 

 

As originally reported on the David Letterman Show

We call them "film studies". Others might call them "cut-ups". Regardless of the name, both refer to a collection of video clips that are put together to make a new video. These short video clips do not need to come from the same source video, or even from the same season.

 

Coach Fulk put together this list after four years of pretty intensive work with football players and video. Although Chad has spent almost his entire career as a football coach it would be fairly easy to generalize his pointers to other sports.

Top 10 Characteristics of Great Film Studies

 

The Care and Occasional Feeding of DVDs and CDs

by Don Green

 

Mostly common sense (and a few twists ...)

 

This short article will give every coach an idea or two about how to best take care of their ever expanding library of DVDs and CDs.

 

Analyzing a Specific Offensive Play vs a Paricular D Front

by Jack Rarick

 

A great off-season film study

As an offensive line coach I like to look at how we run a particular offensive play against a specific defensive front that is used by more than one team.

I like to create this film study during the off- season. This type of film study is important for many reasons.

Read the article in its entirety and email Coach Rarick with one of your ideas.

Analyzing a Specific Offensive Play vs a Paricular D Front

Creating DVDs with Multiple Film Studies

by Jack Rarick

 

Instead of six separate VHS tapes use one DVD

For several years we had been distributing six or seven different video tapes to our defensive team.

Inside Linebackers received the inside run and trap plays, the Sam received the off tackle plays while the Willie received all the weak side ISO plays as well as the options and bootlegs to the weak side. Our strong safeties always got a video tape with run plays and sprint out passes to the field. Our defensive line received a tape with several clips of our opponent in pass sets as well as their best two or three run plays.

And of course the defensive backs all received a video tape of every pass play our opponent threw over the last few weeks as well as what they threw against us the last few years. These plays were usually sorted by formation as well.

We still do that. But instead of managing several different VHS tapes we create just one DVD and make multiple copies. Our players use scene selection from the front of the DVD to choose the film study of their choice.

Click on the link below to find the full article. If you are already an iMovie and iDVD user make sure you read the article for your current version. We have two tutorials, one for iMovie4 and one for iMovie HD (iMovie5).

Creating a single DVD with multiple film studies

Coach's Video Assistant

by Mike Smith

 

Request more information!

Are you interested in more information about Coach's Video Assistant? Send me a note, msmith@btathletics.com, and ask for a demonstration package. We'll send you a DVD with a sample film study, a highlight video and a video tutorial. We'll also include some printed reports.

Coach's Video Assistant is a feature rich program at a very low school price. A full, cross-platform site license can be purchased for $995 All the right hardware, capable of burning DVD's, making VHS tapes, printing statistical reports, tendency charts and formation diagrams will cost less than $1300

And that's a complete system for less than $2300 That includes a three year hardware warranty and three years of Coach's Video Assistant upgrades and support. Send us a note or check out the link below for more information.

Coach's Video Assistant ... basic features.

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