Holding on to the ball upon contact, and staying on your feet are hallmarks of a good offensive football player. All coaches teaching football how to play should make use of this drill for offense.
What you need – You need to have 5 players holding blocking dummies (held in the hands) or they can go without.
How this drill works – This football drill is to help your players learn to handle contact, stay on their feet, and maintain control of the ball.
At first, the ball carrier will start out in the middle of the five tackling players. On the coach’s whistle, the player will run towards one of the defenders, absorb a ‘pop’ hit, then go right across to the other side for another pop hit, then down and across for another, etc.
The drill does not end for the ball carrier until they hit all five players that are standing around them. If they lose the ball, they will start again. If they get knocked down, they must get up and continue on with the last player that knocked them down.
The defenders must not tackle the ball carrier, they must simply hit them hard enough to knock the players around and possibly to the ground. This isn’t a tackling drill for the defenders as much as it is a drill for the ball carriers to learn to absorb punishment.
Result – The ball carriers will learn to protect the ball, absorb the hits but not fall and then they will also start to learn the advantage of initiating contact rather than just taking it.
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