Preparing for the Future (Release 4.0)

Ryan and I have been hard at work defining what Lacrosse Lab will become thanks to your feedback. This release features some major UX enhancements, with a focus on your mobile experience. Here's a quick look at what you will now see as a Team Coach:

Consolidated Team Playbook/My Playbook View

Consolidated Team/Personal Playbook

We've decided to simplify your experience with managing your playbook. Keep all of your work-in-progress plays in your personal playbook. When you're ready to share them with your team, you can share them to your Team Playbook.

Simpler Add/Share Play Experience

When you're ready to share your play with your team, you will now find that command under our new + action button. Expect a few new features to make their way into this slot. For now, we'll keep those as a secret!

As always, we greatly appreciate your feedback and support. We're very excited for some of these updates and some of the features that this will enable us to deploy to you in the very near future. For now, I encourage you to get in and check these out!

-Eric

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Share Public Plays with Free Accounts

Want to see a trick? We're excited to announce that plays can now be shared and even embedded (like above) with your free Lacrosse Lab account. Sharing can be done by selecting the play options drop-down in "My Playbook." Select SHARE PLAY and navigate to the PUBLIC tab. For now, you can share directly to Facebook and Twitter. You can also copy a direct link to share anywhere that you please! For those of you that might be a little more "techy," you can also embed our play viewer on your site, just like I've shown above. As always, let us know what you think and start SHARING! -Eric

Lacrosse Basics: Offense Formations

Hey All, Welcome back the Lacrosse Basics series. This post is going to primarily focus on the core offensive formations, when they are used and a little bit of why. 'Why' is usually a loaded question is better answered with a little more detail that I can provide in separate posts. I will likely be throwing around some terms that I used in the first post, so I'm going to link that here . This post will focus on the most traditional offensive sets. These include a 2-3-1, 1-4-1, 2-2-2 ("Dueces"), 3-3 and a Circle. I can follow up at a later point in time to review the 3-2-1 and 3-1-2 which are becoming more common at the collegiate level. 2-3-1 When naming a formation in Baltimore, we generally look at the number of players in each row going top to bottom (just like basketball). So the 2-3-1 has 2 players in a row closest to midfield, 3 players across in the middle and 1 player at 'X'. For whatever reason, you'll find NY teams do the

Effort Counts Twice

I do my best to read a little bit every morning. My reading interests are generally tied to psychology, sociology and economics; that is, different topics that influence our motivation. Having hit a bit of a lull in my regular reading, I decided to thumb through one of my favorites, Grit by Angela Duckworth. In the book, Duckworth covers all of her research on motivation and achievement. She has boiled it down to "grit", rather than talent, is a much better indicator of future achievement. What is Grit? Grit is that sense of stick-to-it-iveness. That inner calling to dust yourself off after a failure and try again. That motivation to put in hours upon hours of practice with one specific goal in mind. In the book, Duckworth discusses the four pillars of grit (interest, practice, purpose, hope), but for now, I want to focus on her leading point: effort counts twice. Effort Counts Twice As lacrosse coaches, I think it's easy to let first impressions seal the deal

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