Club participation usually is two sessions per week in-season and three in the offseason. You naturally want the best for your kids. Blakely ran clinics at the Wayne Boys Club, and Wayne PAL in the 1980s with Pequannock's Craig Spencer, and present Drill Masters director Ron Jones. Kids came from all over, and it's great if they learn from it. However, a privately-taught teen can lose sight of the team concept, he says.
Smart coaches see the advantage.
We're not trying to supercede a coach. The more tutelage the merrier, says Pascack Hills coach Ken MacIver, whose assistant is Reflex director Kevin Harriman. But if somebody else can teach it to my kids and they pin with it, that's fine. Lou Lazzeri came in to teach exactly what I taught, and Louie had them all wide-eyed. You can't beat the high caliber of competition at clubs.