small group training Cranford NJ

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Monday & Wednesday, 4:30 and 5:30 in Cranford with Coach Jake. First session is free.

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What we do
Youth lacrosse group training on a field in Cranford, NJ
Group training · on the field
with Coach Jake

Group
Training

Small group sessions in Cranford, up to 12 athletes. Monday & Wednesday, 4:30 and 5:30. Stick skills, shooting, dodging, defense, and positioning.

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Between seasons

More reps.

Small group sessions so your player gets more work between seasons. The focus is the small details: where the wrists sit, how the hips load, how the feet angle. The stuff that makes an efficient lacrosse player.

S.01

The X9

Every session opens with our warmup. It preps the body and teaches players how to run: stride length, how to propel forward, how the foot strikes the ground.

S.02

Stick skills

Catching, throwing, cradling. We sweat the small stuff: wrist position on the catch, where the top hand sits, keeping the stick protected in traffic.

S.03

Shooting

Form first, then a lot of shots. How the feet angle to the cage, loading the hips, hand position, following through to the target.

S.04

Dodging

First step and change of direction: dropping the hips, planting the feet, selling the fake before the burst. Beating a defender starts in the footwork.

S.05

Defense

Staying in front without reaching. Footwork, body position, angling the feet to steer the dodger where we want them.

S.06

Positioning

Where to be on the field, on ball and off ball. Spacing, timing, moving into the play instead of watching it.

Leaders

The coach.

Coach Jake Sheppard, founder of From X Lacrosse, coaching in Cranford, NJ
Leaders · Coach Jake

Coach Jake

Founder, From X

Coach Jake grew up in the Moreland Lacrosse Club, which his family started. He was coaching by 15 and represented Victoria and Australia before being recruited to play at Pace University. He is the founder of From X, coaches girls and boys lacrosse in Cranford, and started the Sixers Lacrosse League.

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Leave the game better than you found it.