With the summer time coming up, current High School Football players and teams have the opportunity to attend camps around the country. Too many players and even coaches go into these camps with the wrong ideas though. There are several different types of camps that our players can attend, and we need to know the purpose and benefit of each. Whether attending camp as an individual player, or as a team, we need to get our money’s worth from the right football camp.The most beneficial type of camp for improving player performance would be a position-specific camp. The most popular and common of these are certainly Quarterback camps. While I’ve never attended these, we have had players attend the Jeff Trickey Quarterback Camps. I have also heard very good things about the Darrin Slack football camps – and the videos are awesome. Coaches at these clinics may be able to make corrections in Quarterback mechanics. However, if a player is attending one of these camps, their own High School coach almost certainly needs to attend as well. Otherwise, there will be conflicting messages from the coach and the camp, and the Quarterback will wind up just being confused. [Read more...]