Jack Kaley: Pressure Zone Defense

This is a solid, if somewhat short, presentation on the backer zone. I liked the fact that it is simple and very easy for most teams to implement right away, because it is based on a 6v5 situation (i.e., Man-Down Defense). Since virtually all teams already have and regularly rep a MDD, it is not hard to help players develop an additional defensive look by adopting this zone.

Coach Kaley did a good job of explaining the basic principles of the zone, and also addresses some special cases. I agree with many of the other reviewers that the video is a bit short, but I still think Coach Kaley does a good job explaining the zone to the extent needed. As it is largely based on the MDD that most coaches and teams practice day in and day out, that part really doesn't require a lot of explanation. Coach Kaley goes over special circumstances, such as deliberately channeling the offensive players to the middle of the field to set up the backer slide, as well as applying more pressure than is typical in MDD. He provides a few different variations on the zone, such as the basic backer zone, denying adjacents, all-out pressure, or even locking off a star player. All in all, it is a solid, if a bit short, treatment of the topic.

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This is deffinetly not the whole entire system, but it is a good start to a zone package. A team still needs more then this and cannot rely on this for a defense

Let me preface this with I played at a top HS, D1 and a year under Kaley at NYIT. This video should be 2 hours, 1 1/2 if Jack stops stuttering "OK" every 30 seconds. The video goes over the very very bare minimum that it should. It does not go over pressuring Adjacent (RED) shut off (Black) and cutting the opponents top threat (500). It also only goes over formation in a 3-2-1. NO 1-4-1, 22, or 2-4. Also "Perimeter Dodging" is called carrying the ball, which took me a while to figure out what he was talking about. If you are a novice coach, this will be a waste of your money. If you played for several top caliber programs you should be able to figure it out, but $40!!! this is worth $9.98 at best. It also took 2 weeks to get to me.

the DVD is short and covers only a few situations. I did get some good ideas from it but if youalready know zone defense some there wasn't much to learn from the presentation

I disagree that this is a bad video or that it is just man-down plus an extra man. At a high level, it's true that this is man-down plus an extra man, but the video does a good job *showing* how to play a pressure zone. You could read about it, but seeing it helped us a lot. We use the same principles for our 3-3 zone, man-down and backer zone.

If you coach defense and want to run a zone or a pressure zone, this video can help show you how to do it.

The backer should be run with a long pole, and the video did NOT discuss how they get the 4th longpole in on defense or if they bump a middie down to wing defense in order to get the LP as the backer. Regardless, this is a good video for defensive coaches.

Great video! Not sure which video the other reviewer was watching but this video was OUTSTANDING! Coach Kaley explains in detail via a whiteboard the specifics for each defensive player- crease man, backer, wings. Then shows video of how this works during a demo. I have seen many instructional videos. This is one of the best! Great work Coach Kaley!!

I hate to disagree with the previous reviewer, but ..... If you understand that it is man down with an "extra man", there is not much more you need to know. The only real trick is that with an open offense (circle/wheel) then you must rotate to the ball.

This is bad, which is so disappointing because it had the potential to be amazing. I have seen his defense in action, so was excited to learn about it. Instead, this is a cursory explanation. I actually learned more by watching the few videos of the defense that it had, about 8 minutes total, than listening to the white board explanation. Unfortunately, there is nowhere near enough information given in this video to run the defense. At the end of the video he gives an email address and a phone number to ask him for more information. Neither of them works. To top it all off, the production value is basically nonexistent. I counted him saying “ok” over 100 times in the video, before I stop counting. Also, at one point he confuses the offensive and defensive players on the white board, so it becomes impossible to understand what he is talking about. To summarize, this video does not given enough information to actually run the defense, there is no way to get more information, and the editing takes even more away from what information is given.