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Casey: Today on Clubhouse Gas a special treat. We’re joined by 1980 National
Football League Defensive Rookie of the year Buddy Curry. Buddy thank
you so much for joining us.
Buddy: Welcome.
Casey: Today we’re going to talk about your camps that you’re running. It’s
called kids and pro’s talk a little bit about the company and what your
goals are.
Buddy: Kids and Pro’s Experience. We have retired NFL players that teach and
coach kids ages 6 to 13 football fundamentals and character principles. We
have Pro’s and Joe’s Day which is a kickoff to our football camps which
happens on Sundays and we have a kind of a sports fest we’re interactive
gaming for family’s and communities followed by NFL autograph session
and then followed by a Pro’s and Joe’s football game.
Casey: Wow.
Buddy: Very exciting to kind of energize a community for the camp and then the
camp starts Monday and it will go Monday to Thursday or Friday and we
have retired NFL players teaching and coaching the kids football
fundamentals and character principles and primarily the principles are
sportsmanship, integrity, excellence, perseverance and teamwork.
Casey: So not just chop your feet, chop your feet drive or lockup and run your
feet but the actual other side, the intangibles.
Buddy: Quote that’s correct as former NFL players we know that there’s a
transition from football to real life. You know, and sometime in your
football career most of the time it happens after you know maybe middle
school or high school and there’s a few that goes on the play professional
ball but everybody goes through that transition and then there are
principles that if you got— you depended your life out of these principles,
you have a chance of being successful.
Casey: Let me ask you this question before we move on talking about this.
Anytime that you’ve got a spotlight on a large group of people there’s
going to be a couple of people in that group who have issues whether it
would be the law or themselves or with their family or whatever so
difference nowadays is there’s a bigger spotlight placed on athletes. Do
you find it harder to instill those 5 principles in the kids when they see
players behaving in a way that aren’t justified by those 5 ways or is it
easier that you do the hay look view on an act like these guys has it made
it harder or easier for you to do what it is your going to do?
Buddy: Well I think it’s been easier to really accentuate what we’re talking about
with a real life examples, you know you hope that you are able to touch it
at certain amount of kids you know you never know where a kids mind is
we hope that that’s the week that their mind is really attuned maybe have
something going on their life what they say man I need to look at this ones
wanting to think about what I’m doing. You know but then again once
they get to their teenage years sometimes their bullet proof.
Casey: Right.
Buddy: And it can happen to me so hopefully with the examples that the
professionals have given and also examples of failures out in the athletic
world. It maybe can help these kids think about what they do before end.
Casey: Now you were a superb high school athlete a highly recruited with North
Carolina. You’ve got a son who plays at a very prestigious football school
here in the state of Georgia and so you know there are a lot of
opportunities for high school kids who are very talented to go to different
kinds of the week football. You got a camp with his brother Eli most
major universities have football camps with high scores, why is it
important for you to focus on the younger age kid.
Buddy: We want to focus on the younger age kid because that way we do not
interfere with the high school coach. Many of these high schools it’s
almost like a college training now where their busy at least or sometimes 5
days a week and they have them several hours a day and quite frankly the
high school coaches really don’t want to for them to take them outside of
their sphere of coaching influence. So we find that the younger kids many
times are more receptive and more impressionable and will be able to
learn the techniques and hopefully if you can inculcate it in a young age
they can build on that as they get to you know the higher levels.
Casey: As you get these young kids in what do you see and how is the major
deficiency when they come to you and they start working with them on
individual things, is there a common thread that kids are missing as far as
football goes?
Buddy: Kids are kids, they really haven’t changed that much. They all want to
have fun and they want to learn and maybe not in that order but if you
construct a camp where your teaching kids fundamentals and your doing it
in an encouraging way that the kids have fun and you overlay that with a
principle that they can think about and especially if the parents are there
listening as well. Their parents can maybe utilize that principle and how
they parent them. It’s a win, win.
Casey: Is it a situation where just work with kids or do you have something
available for coaches as well?
Buddy: Well we do, we have a football camp or a coaches clinic that we had
provided for coaches and one of my passions of being a football coach,
youth coach for the past 7 years is to help youth coaches really understand
how to create game plan or how to create a practice plan, how to teach the
correct fundamentals for each position and how to really approach a
coaching is it something that you want to make sure your son’s a
quarterback or a linebacker or are you really helping the kids— each kid
get better and helping develop both fundamentally as well as bringing life
principles into this kids.
Casey: Well we’re not going to probably too soon find a guy who’s got as much
defensive knowledge as you do so would you please come back and
maybe talk specifically about some defensive principles and maybe some
drills with us?
Buddy: As long as I can blitz and get out of court.
Casey: I hear you Buddy Curry, thank you so much. More information about Kids
and Pros right down here click on the link, they’ll take you right to their
website and you can book your trip for next football season to get your
kids, your team and your coaches ready for the upcoming season of grid
iron action that’s going to do it for us today. Well thank you Buddy Curry
and all the crew here at Clubhouse Gas we’ll see you right back here next
time for another great edition of Clubhouse Gas.
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