Football Coaching – Offensive Drills & Medicine Balls

This is a football drill to teach the offensive line to keep a wide stance. This football coaching tip also allows the coach to teach them how to keep the low center of gravity and to drive the other player to the end of the plank. It is an excellent offensive linemen blocking drill.

This works great for older kids as well as younger. Get a 2″x12″ – 8 ft. long. Place it on the ground longways. Put a line of kids at one end of the “plank”(defensive linemen) and another line at the other end of the “plank”(offensive linemen). Make a mark at the middle of the plank with a can of paint. Have the kids go 1 on 1 blocking the defensive player. The painted line is the line of scrimmage.

This drill will teach the offensive line to keep a wide stance by staying off of the board. Excellent fundamental football blocking drill.

Another thing we are using is the medicine ball to create drive and lift. Using an appropriate size medicine ball the players squat keeping their hips down, their chest up, and they pick up the ball and drive it straight up from their feet. They should create enough torque that their feet leave the ground on the lift although you are not teaching them to jump. This builds all the needed muscles needed to make a hit.

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