Flag Football Drills – Flag Pulling

After coaching flag football for a few years now, I’ve noticed that one of the things a lot of kids do in the beginning is once they get touched, they stop running regardless, even if their flags are still on them. I came up with these flag football drills to address this.

In order to teach them how many times a flag can be missed and the importance of keep running until you hear the whistle, I line my football players up evenly in two lines about 5 yards apart.
Keep about 3 yards between the two lines–just enough room so the runner can run down the middle.
The rule is the defense is not allowed to take their left or right foot off the line so they can only reach out with one hand to pull the flag off the runner. So many times kids run through the entire football team with both flags still on.

It also teaches my players why they need to use the proper flag pulling technique when pulling flags and to keep running until you hear a whistle.

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