Coaching for Pizza: Camarillo Stingers Hell Week 2022

Friday, July 22, 2022

Camarillo Stingers Hell Week 2022 - Day IV

Thursday, July 21, 2022

The fourth day of Camarillo Stingers Hell Week loomed for our rookie American football player.

Jacob seemed none the worse for wear and, while still having a lot to learn, approached the night with a positive attitude.

His first time going through

a new drill was a tad rocky

But he endured.

Hops and a PUNISHING

hit on a blocking bag

Waiting in lines is a big and

probably necessary part of the

Stingers hour long Agility Circuit

Jacob needs to improve on his knee bending

and really shouldn't take it so easy on his

coach at the end of this drill

After practice, we drove across town to the Stingers storage facility to help the coaches in the first of two nights of properly fitting helmets for all of the players in their six team program.

We finished this evening's fittings at about 9:20 p.m.

Three clubs starting to assemble

for the helmet distribution

We started with the three youngest clubs that have players ranging from five to eleven years old.

We'll fit the older players on Friday night.

The tradeoff for volunteering to work these two nights was that Jacob received his helmet first.

I was more than OK with that exchange.

Starting to fit Jacob

Almost finished

Jacob looks ready to Rock and Roll

to me as padded practices

loom next week

Though I think that a haircut may be in order.

The old Camarillo Cougars re-branded themselves as the Stingers this season.

They flat out could not afford to buy everything in the new Blue and Silver Stingers colors this season, thus last year's Brown and Gold Cougars jerseys are still being used as practice jerseys this campaign.

Another half slate of ELF games this weekend . . .