Last week, I sent out a request for my newsletter subscribers to send in their best football practice drills. Check out the drills and tips below (very creative)!
From Nephi,
I don’t have any great pearls of wisdom, but here is one from many years ago.
I like this football drill because it gets the young first time players used to the sound and feel of a hit. It may also help with any fear. We called it the gauntlet.
You form your team into two straight lines facing each other 2 yards apart. Give one player the ball and send him up the middle. Everyone gets to take a pop at him, or tries to strip the ball.
Teaches great ball control and proper technique for ball handlers, and is a lot of fun for all.
The guys who stay low, move fast, and protect the ball do the best.
Great for the younger players.
From Shawn,
Last year we had about 75% of our kids who had never played football before. We eventually used the first 30 minutes of each practice doing what we called “stations”.
Each day we would have 3 different stations (groups got 10 minutes at each) where we would do drills such as form tackling, agility, 1 on 1’s. We broke the kids up into groups that were “similar”. Some days it would be positional, some days by weight and some days by height. Mixing that up kept things interesting.
The fundamentals of the kids improved vastly through the year and we ended up losing the city final by 7 to a team that had beaten us 33-0 earlier in the year.
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