As I am sure everybody knows (well, everybody involved with Long Snapping), a Alan D’Appollonio of Arkansas scored a touchdown! If you haven’t seen this VERY creative play, it is a must watch.
Alan attended several Rubio Long Snapping Vegas Events and ended up being a 5 Star Long Snapper that was ranked 11th in the country in 2011. Alan has always had tremendous athleticism and it looks as though the Arkansas staff has taken note. Congratulations to Alan and the Arkansas football team.
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The rankings are completed for ALL 2017 Long Snappers that participated in the Rubio Long Snapping fall Camp in CA.
Next ranking opportunity will be in IL on November 9th and at VEGAS XXV.
#1 Long Snapper in the class of 2017, Thomas Fletcher
This class of Long Snappers is really staring to shine with three sophomores standing out.
Notables: Koltin Anderson and Karson Thomas
KEY POINTS:
A Long Snapper has the ability to adjust their ranking anytime I see them LIVE, not on video.
For the rankings section, simply go to RubioLongSnapping.com rollover PLAYER RANKINGS, rollover which CLASS you are looking for, click that CLASS, click LONG SNAPPERS and find your name.
Be sure to check out the amazing recap video below from the Rubio Long Snapping fall camp in CA. You will love the drone footage.
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Here is an article that I wrote for my local newspaper, The Lewiston Tribune, that I thought you would enjoy….
If you’re reading this, thank someone. I don’t care if it is a higher power, your parents, your kids, your neighbor or even the person you got the paper from, thank someone.
They deserve to hear it and you need to say it. Think about it: Without others, you are nothing. I don’t care how great an athlete, businessperson or student you think you are, you did not get there on your own.
You had help along the way. Everyone does.
A world-class Olympian sprinter doesn’t come out sprinting. They fall, they crawl, they walk, they jog and then they run. There are steps and there are always people assisting along the way.
A top-tier business owner didn’t get to the top on their own. I don’t care if you invented the perfect “widget,” you had help along the way. From someone teaching you to read, to someone showing you how to write, to the manufacturing of the “widget,” you had help. No one does anything completely on their own.
Those people who are assisting you have been there and they have done that. Usually, of course not always, people don’t just talk to talk. They talk for a purpose. They talk to be heard. They want to help.
You have been helped. You need to thank someone.
Then, after you thank that person or persons, you need to ask for more advice and really listen. The next step is key: Make a plan and don’t stop until you get there.
It doesn’t matter how tough the first part of your plan will be – never stop. Champions don’t stop until they get to the championship. That is why they are champions.
The great ones have taken advice from many along the way, they have implemented the advice, they made their plan and they did not stop until they reached their goal.
Everything is hard when you first start. Suck it up. Get over it. Learn from it. Move on and then dominate it.
If being a champion, in anything, was easy … everyone would do it.
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The rankings are completed for ALL 2015 Long Snappers that participated in the Rubio Long Snapping Summer Camp in NC.
Next ranking opportunity in NC will be on November 22 at William A Hough HS.
KEY POINTS:
A Long Snapper has the ability to adjust their ranking anytime I see them LIVE, not on video.
For the rankings section, simply go to RubioLongSnapping.com rollover PLAYER RANKINGS, rollover which CLASS you are looking for, click that CLASS, click LONG SNAPPERS and find your name.
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Below is an email I received from a parent in the Midwest this morning (names have been removed)…..
Hey Rubio, I wanted to drop you a quick email and share something with you. My son had the opportunity to attend one of the “other” national long snapping camps on Monday. The only reason we elected to do it was because it was an hour from our house and it was a day my son had free.
In a nutshell very disappointing, minimal interaction and info for parents, minimal stretching and prep, my son had easily 300+ snaps with minimal instruction, correction, and one instructor for all long snappers. After the camp my son got a text from the instructor inviting him to their “National Invite Camp” and he politely declined, partly because he has a college camp the same day. Normally I would encourage him to look big picture but my gut was telling me a lot of smoke and mirrors. What was advertised and what we received at the one day camp were two completely different things.
At the end of the day my son’s comment was “Dad I am glad I’m a Rubio guy that camp was miserable.”
I guess the reason for my email is not to rip on the other guys but to send a big THANK YOU, for the continued great job you do instructing our young men.
As I have said before, many CLAIM certain things but rarely, if ever, do they actually back it up. Many will invite you to their “invite only” camps telling you what you want to hear but, what you need to realize, is that they invite EVERY SINGLE PERSON they see. If everyone is invited, how special is that invite?
Be sure to ASK AROUND before you waste your money and time.
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