BACK IN ACTION: Glynn's Bobby Brockman hosts yearly soccer camp
Jul. 10—For six hours a day for a week straight, the next wave of soccer stars around the Golden Isles will flood to Glynn Middle School to learn from Glynn Academy coach Bobby Brockman and some of the best that have worn the Terror kit in recent years.
The camp opened up with individual skill work that Brockman demonstrated to the over 80 campers, some of who have heard their dads call Brockman coach once before.
"There are players here whose dads played for me at Glynn Academy and their kids are at the camp," Brockman said. "That's really fun to see that and when I got here almost 30 years ago — if you would have told me I'd still be around coaching former players' children, I would have laughed at that but here we are."
Going over the six different types of skills to perfect strong dribble moves and ball control, all six had the same two techniques that Brockman emphasized... toes up and heel out.
Changing from inside inside, to short and long strides with wide and short touches, zig zags with dominant and non-dominant foot to ending with inside right outside left and vise versa with a backward twist, campers spent a portion of the first hour to help keep those skills stay ingrained in their heads.
Having over 80 campers and breaking them off into sections based on their age, campers had the opportunity to rotate through the fun and games to put in technical work to constantly improve.
Brockman grabbed all of his campers around to a portion of the field to show what the 4 v. 4 games would look like and how he wanted them to replicate game moments.
Grabbing a few campers to go against current and former Glynn varsity players, Brockman broke down the diamond formation thats used to create enough space for passing outlets and possible runs.
