Re: Winter practice?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Koca) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (judd) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Professor Funk) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...

>   I also enjoy the indoor game and my team has productive practices
> over the winter.
> 
>   To minimize poaching try playing 3 on 3. That would simulate
> handling and defending handlers in a split stack offence. But that
> would not be quite realistic because you would normally get a lot of
> help or a switch on a deep cut. Therefore limit the maximum length of
> a pass by dividing the field into 3 zones, you can not pass more than
> the next zone forward. Also we usually disallow hammers indoors. To
> make it a good workout we often play make it you take it, with only a
> check in between points. Really makes you want to play defence with
> the make it take it rule.

Nothing wrong with swtiching or helping out, that's not quite the same
as seeing the defense line up in the endzone, waiting for a pass.  In
my case, though, our endzones were only about 5 feet deep and it was
the preferred method of D for select players.  About dividing the
field into zones...for the sake of learning short throws, I guess it's
good.  If you know the game, though, you should be able legally to
score from any place on the court.  The only real place and time when
people poach the endzone from my experience was when the offense
already got within a few feet of scoring.  That's when all the
poaching took place.