Special thanks to Rodney and to Garrett for sending these in. If you’ve every struggled with fresh ideas for football coaching aids with your youth teams, you MUST try these out!
From Rodney,
When working with the young players (ages 10 -12) it is often difficult to keep their attention and focus.
In addition keeping football drills and activities fun, revolving and well planned, we found it very helpful to keep them vocal. Emphasizing on counting loud at warm-up, loud breaks at the huddle and loud group cheers during practices and games seem to use their energy in a way that pulls them together. We even have the players recognize other players who executed a play properly, who gave extra effort and even a struggling player’s improvement.
Kids are being empowered. Bonus, they also show a higher level of good sportsmanship.
From Garrett,
I ended last practice with my 5th and 6th graders with a ‘jump and bump’ celebration drill that we then demonstrated for the parents as part of pre-game warm-ups on opening day.
Goal: Team spirit and laughter.
Directions: form two lines facing each other with kids of similar size/weight opposing each other. Then, in pairs, have them run towards each other timing their jumps so they belly-bump at the peak of their jumps.
For experienced bumpers: once air-born, spin ¼ revolution in opposing directions and bump side to side.
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