Quik Scout Technologies Newsletter Issue 2
January 2006

FireScout Football in Action

Welcome to the New Year and Quik Scout’s first newsletter of 2006. In this issue we continue the tradition of featuring a real world application for FireScout Football in action as well as bring you up to date on new products, programs and developments at Quik Scout Technologies.

Contents:

FireScout Football in Action: This month’s newsletter features a discussion by Coach Marc Yonts from the Walla Walla HS Blue Devils. Coach Yonts utilizes FireScout Football during the season to prepare for opponents as well as a teaching/learning tool in preseason preparation. Read on and see Coach Yonts’ discussion on using FireScout Football.

Clinic Time is Here: January begins the 2006 coach’s clinics in earnest. Quik Scout has committed to a full slate of clinics for 2006. See this section to see where Quik Scout will be participating.

Live FireScout Demo via the Internet: Learn how you can take advantage of the internet to receive a live demonstration from the comfort of your own office or home.

FireScout Football in Action:
Coach Yonts from Walla Walla gave us his story of how he uses Fire Scout throughout the entire year to prepare for games.

Each week during the season, we input data on our offense and our opponent’s offense. First we produce printed reports of everything to look for tendencies in our opponents play calling. After we have the reports, we begin making cutups of our opponents top three run plays and top three pass plays. Not only do our coaches study these, but we burn DVD's for some of our key defensive players to take home and study for the week to prepare for the upcoming game. We also store these segments on the desktop on my computer in the coach’s office so players can stop by any time during the week and take a quick look at what we need to stop in our opponent’s offense for the week. We also use the photo feature to take snapshots of defensive alignment against formations similar to what we run. We laminate these and take these to practice to illustrate coaching point to particular players and to help our scout team line up properly. About halfway through the season, we will print a report to self-scout our offensive calls to make sure we aren't falling into any tendencies ourselves.

As soon as our season ends, we begin using Fire Scout to do printed reports of efficiency and study our down and distance success for the season. We also take a look at what plays we ran out of each formation to plan our plays for next season. We then use Fire Scout to make cutups of each and every play to study on film and determine mistakes made or ways to alter each. One of the best things we do is sort all of our runs that gained under four yards, and look for common problems to correct for spring. After we have studied ourselves, we begin putting together training tape to use for instructing our players in the spring, especially our incoming freshmen.

Prior to spring and fall practice, our staff meets to prepare. I was able to take snapshots of how teams align to each of our formations and use those in a presentation to our staff so we could effectively plan blocking schemes against common defensive alignments. We then give our coaches copies of the photos to refer to during the season.

Overall Fire Scout has been an integral part of our coaching and teaching and we can't imagine going back to the way we used to do things.

For more information on Fire Scout Football and it's new features, check out the Fire Scout Football section of our website.

Clinic Time is Here:
At present, Quik Scout and its partners have a full slate of coach’s clinics scheduled for this spring. Listed below are the clinics currently scheduled to attend with more in the works. Please make a point of stopping by the Quik Scout booth to see the latest product demonstrations and register for a free drawing of QuikStat Football. QuikStat Football is a statistics software program that quickly organizes and prints statistical information saving you hours of manual calculation. QuikStat Football will be a welcome addition to any program.

2006 Clinic Schedule:  

*Additional cities are being added at this moment and we will communicate them via newsletters as they get added. If you plan to attend a clinic and want to know if QuikScout will be attending, please call Tom Shaw at 678-388-9800 or via email at tshaw@quikscout.com. Thanks and hope to see you at one of the upcoming clinics.

Live FireScout demo via the Internet:
The advent of broadband internet technology to support streaming video has enabled QuikScout to provide coaches live product demonstrations wherever you have access to a computer, high speed internet connection and a telephone. Using one of the industries most advanced online meeting solutions, QuikScout personnel can demonstrate the FireScout application live to you, your coaches or your booster club. By doing this, we enable you to effectively evaluate whether FireScout Football is the right video editing software solution for you. Additionally, demonstrations can ultimately include Booster Club meetings who frequently provide funding for much, if not all, of the solution. Soon, we will publish a list of regularly scheduled demonstrations for you to register and attend. Although the demonstrations are conducted via the internet, the demonstrations are held to no more than 10 attendees in order to provide adequate attention to each coach’s questions. During the demonstrations, you will log on to a website provide to you by QuikScout and join a teleconference line for the audio portion. In this fashion, you will see a live product demonstration on your computer with the ability to ask questions, in real time, to the QuikScout representative.

If do not want to wait for the list of scheduled demonstrations to come out and want to schedule a demonstration now, please email sales@quikscout.com and arrange for a live demonstration.

Thanks for taking the time to read our newsletter. If you have questions about FireScout Football or want to contact someone from Quik Scout Technologies, please use any of the following methods to contact us:

Quik Scout Technologies
1821 East 40th Street
Cleveland, OH 44103
800-251-4077 x 347
www.quikscout.com