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Dynamic Content in The Zone Offense: Create a Structured System

My first ibook 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays  was loaded with dynamic content.  The new iBook The Zone Offense:  Create a Structured System includes even more.  Here’s a quick inventory of the content included:

75 Interactive Presentations totaling 622 slides.  Most of these include animation.

2 minute 50 second introduction video

40 game film cut-ups with press box and end zone angles totaling 13 minutes.

16 instructional videos totaling 35 minutes.

That’s 51 minutes of video alone!  A DVD costs you $40 and gives you slightly more in terms of video minutes.  The iBook is just $29.99 and is packed with more depth and detail than you can get in a video or book separately.

Get it for your iPad or Mac from the iBookstore.

New iBook – The Zone Offense: Create a Structured System

 

 

 

My new iBook is now available on the iBookstore.  Get it here. This is a title I have been working on for years.  I wanted to do more than present what was a very effective play for us (10.3 yards per carry); I wanted to share the process we used for creating a tightly integrated offensive system.

While the book goes into the details for every position in running the play, it also illustrates a process that will work to create an effective offensive system.  This theme is covered throughout the book and includes the following:

I worked to harness the power of the interactivity with the dynamic content using even more tools than my first iBook 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays:

Frame by Frame play analysis.

Screen Recording of technique and fundamental explanations.

Hundreds of slides worth of Keynote/Power Point type of presentations.

Multiple angle game film.

Diagrams.

Still shots.

No more losing the scraps of paper or napkins you write your own diagrams and ideas on.  They are forever saved in the iBook with interactive note taking, highlighting, and play diagramming.  I wrote a simple app for play diagramming in the book.  It works best with a stylus, but none the less, your ideas are there for you to refer back to in the iBook. (see below).

Like my first iBook, this is the perfect blend of text and dynamic content.  It’s better than having a book and DVD combined into one.

More will be coming soon.  Stay tuned for an exciting announcement.

Get my first iBook 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays

New iBook Coming Soon! Win a free download.

My new iBook is nearly complete.  The new book goes beyond the utilization of the platform and technology displayed in my first book.  I’ve discovered new and better ways to help illustrate and explain concepts.

This book will contain even more dynamic content than my first book and be even more user friendly.

The book is designed to explain a process for developing and evolving an offensive system.  It pays close attention to not just finding a cookie cutter approach of adapting someone else’s system, but rather explains a process for analyzing, researching and developing a system that accommodates the adjustments that are needed from year to year with the different skill sets of the players within your system.

The process is illustrated through using examples from an offense that produced Ohio’s leading rusher and scorer when we used it at the high school level.  The offense was a multiple personnel, multiple formation zone run game based offense that re-wrote our record books.  The process we used taught us a lot about how to put together an offense that is effective year in and year out while being able to adapt to changes to our team as well as the opponents on our schedule.

Developing philosophies, teaching methods, creating position drills around what actually happens in the game are focused on in each volume.

Strategies and examples for implementation are provided with play diagrams, animated step by step analysis of plays versus different defenses, as well game film with both press box and end zone views.

Again, it’s much more than you would get in a book or a dvd separately.

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Optionfootball.net review of 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays

http://optionfootball.net/ride-and-decide-101-pro-style-pistol-offense-plays/

If you have even a little option in your offense, option football.net is a great resource. Check out the review of my iBook and all of the great football information on the site.

If you own an iPad, please check out my iBook, the first coaching resource of its kind,101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays. This is a resource that has principles that can apply to any offense. You can get it from the iBookstore:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/101+-pro-style-pistol-offense/id611588645?mt=11

John Maurek Reviews 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays

John Maurek wrote a review on his blog “Spread Football”. Read it here: http://highspeedspreadfootball.blogspot.com/2013/04/coach-grabowski-ibook-reviewfinally.html

Be sure to checkout out his other posts and info on his site. It is full of useful information. He also runs a forum worth checking out. http://nohuddlespread.proboards.com/index.cgi?

Purchase my iBook from your iPad here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/101+-pro-style-pistol-offense/id611588645?mt=11

Curtis Peterson reviews 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays

http://strongfootballcoach.com/offensive-football/101-pro-style-pistol-offense-plays-review/

I had the pleasure of meeting Curtis at the Glazier Indianapolis Clinic in January. He is very knowledgeable on the game and writes some great posts on his blog. Be sure to check out his site!

He’s given another positive review of the iBook. You can get it on your iPad from the iBookstore here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/101+-pro-style-pistol-offense/id611588645?mt=11

Book Review: Recoded and Reloaded by Dan Gonzalez

Book Review: Recoded and Reloaded

In my library of resources, I have books that I re-read and refer back to every off season. Primarily these are books that provide a sound offensive structure for incorporating an offensive idea, and give the details to make those ideas successful. Dan’ s first book, Concept Passing: Teaching the Modern Passing Game is one of those resources. He didn’t necessarily present any information that was new to me from a passing play perspective, but he did present it in a very clear, concise, and logical manner structured in a way that allowed me to think differently about those pass plays. Dan’s new book, Recoded and Reloaded: An Updated Structure for a Complete Pass Offense at Any Level is another resource that provides a logical structure for offense and a new way to look at the passing game.

Dan began this project, or “experiment” as he calls it, with the idea that he wanted to make the offensive structure so simple that an eight year old, particularly his son, could understand it. Dan’s first book illustrated nine different concepts and how they fit into an offensive system. While I loved how each concept was taught and how the system was built, nine concepts were too cumbersome for me to carry in an offense. Spurred by Dan’s organization and concept based teaching, I found a way to fit everything that we needed in our passing game into five concepts. I never fully adopted Dan’s system or terminology, but his first book had a huge influence on how I thought about passing.

One aspect I especially liked was that Dan set up structures in the passing game that allowed his quarterback to move through a specific progression using footwork as the timing. If you stand behind me at practice you will constantly hear that coaching point being reiterated to my quarterbacks, “Take your eyes and feet through the progression.” Gonzalez’s details for each concept made it easy to translate to a quarterback. There are other resources out there that give even more detail on those types of things and in defining the idea of “open receiver” and provide more of an operating system for any concept. Both of Dan’s books are tailored to setting up concepts to attack the defense and remain focused on that. The whole idea of both of Gonzalez’s books are to provide a structure of a passing game attack that allows for multiplicity while providing a consistent teaching/coaching model.

Recoded and Reloaded goes a step further than Concept Passing. In today’s modern game, the need to be streamlined in order to operate at faster tempos is necessary. The challenge for any offensive coordinator is to balance the number of answers needed to attack a defense with simplicity. What I’ve found through studying materials is that structure and design of a system, when done properly, allow a coordinator to have the flexibility of many answers by design while translating that to a simple game plan that is practiced and performed efficiently on game day.

Dan’s “experiment” does just that. He took nine concepts and found commonalities that allowed him streamline the passing game even further than he previously designed is system. This was done with the player in mind. Any good system is user friendly. In order for it to work, it must be simple for the players to use. Dan points out that streamlining for most coaches means paring down what is used by discarding it. The problem with that is that it takes away answers for an offense. He makes the point that the goal of streamlining a passing game is to maintain access to virtually any pattern structure. This allows for adjusting to personnel from season to season while staying out of a “grab bag” mentality of offense. The challenge is really put back on the coaches to mix and match patterns so that they attack a defense in an optimal way. The structure maintains the consistency from week to week and season to season for the player and coaches.

The book gets into the nuts and bolts of the system by explaining and illustrating a tightly integrated formation system. While most formation systems base out of an “I” formation, this one begins with a four wide receiver environment and gives simple rules for any substitute based on the type of player and his role (fullback, tight end, h-back). It’s helpful to read this section for a basic understanding of how plays are called in the book, but not necessary if you don’t have an interest in adapting a new formation system. It is a great resources though, and it certainly spurs some thought on how well your own formations adapt to different personnel and affect the teaching of concepts.

From this point on, the book explains some sound rationale for how pass concepts should be created to properly stretch a defense. This leads into the “recode” and how everything boils down to three advantage principles and three read concepts. An advantage principle is the first area that is being attacked with the pass play. This can be done with a single route or with a combination of routes. The remaining routes are distributed in a way that create a line of sight for the quarterback and a specific rhythm for his eyes and feet, exactly like that described in he first book. As Dan progresses further into the book he explains the benefits of using three advantage principles and three read concepts in how they translate into practice drills. There certainly is an efficiency and carry over created in having a very flexible system that can throw many different variations at a defense over the course of a season while remaining simple in the players’ eyes.

The terminology for play calling and structural tags is simple to understand and use. The idea of creating a backside combination or stretch of the defense with what is termed “third fix” was of most interest to me. It really brings the fourth and fifth receiver into play by making them a part of the passing structure instead of an afterthought. It takes the idea of “dead routes” out of the passing game and makes all five receivers a legitimate target for the quarterback while giving him a simple and logical progression to get there. When tied to protection and back releases, both detailed and illustrated in the book, it’s easy to create a passing play with the method described.

Gonzalez also spends time on explaining the scramble and its importance in the passing game. He gives specific rules to receivers with sound rationale on why and how they should react when the quarterback goes into a scramble.

A portion of the book goes into the practical side showings reader exactly how the system works in assembling a pass call. Understanding this allows any coach to assemble a pass play in a way that it will remain simple for the players because of the structure. Finally, a recommended installation plan is given and discussed.

Recoded and Reloaded: An Updated Structure for a Complete Pass Offense at Any Level will provoke thought for how you have created a structure. It’s a sound system that can be incorporated in its entirety as described in he book. For many if us though, it’s a resource that can give us advantages in tweaking the design of our own system to be streamlined and player friendly. The best offenses today probably don’t look much different on the surface. If you took cut-up from one team to the next you would see many similar offensive plays. The advantage is gained for a team when it finds a way to blend simplicity and flexibility in its attack while giving the players a simple way to do all of it through a structure that creates a very clear picture in their minds through both communication of the concepts (how it’s taught) and repetition of concepts in practice. Dan Gonzalez book provides a resource that can help you do exactly that.

Get Dan’s book here:
https://www.createspace.com/4179085

My book 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays is available for your iPad through the iBookstore:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/101+-pro-style-pistol-offense/id611588645?mt=11

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Third review coming soon

Coach John Maurek has tweeted about the iBook and now posts some initial thoughts with promises of more here: http://highspeedspreadfootball.blogspot.com/2013/03/teaser-review.html

Here’s what he’s tweeted:
@dacoachmohuddle: I went to weights today and showed my HC @CoachKGrabowski “book”, he didn’t put it down… #mindblowing

@dacoachmohuddle: @dacoachmohuddle: @CoachKGrabowski I’m with @coachbdud I can’t put the “book” down, the review will be earlier than promised #mindblowing

@dacoachmohuddle: @CoachKGrabowski @coachbdud @coachcp Right now, I’m calling it “mind blowing”

Get 101+Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays on your iPad from the iBookstore:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/101+-pro-style-pistol-offense/id611588645?mt=11

Another review of 101+ Pro Style Pistol Offense Plays

Here’s another review of my iBook. Thanks Zach!
http://competeinallthings.blogspot.com/2013/03/buy-this-book.html

Get it from the iBookstore on your iPad here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/101+-pro-style-pistol-offense/id611588645?mt=11