Thanks to Chris, one of my subscribers for sending this one in. If you’re coaching youth football and need some fresh ideas, you MUST try this out!
From Chris…
Last year I coached football at the 9-11 year old level. We had a number of players who were afraid to hit during live football drills and were not using proper technique.
We would run drills and go through the proper steps and techniques on our tackling dummies (which weigh all of 5lbs.), but when it came to live hitting they couldn’t convert from hitting that dummy to hitting a live kid.
What I did was bring my boxing heavy bag to practice. This one weighed approximately 100lbs. and was roughly the height of the players. We had them go through their hitting drills on this bag as opposed to the normal virtually weightless bag.
This helped to simulate hitting a live person more and they were quickly able to translate that into live drills.
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