Football Tackling Drills – The Eye Opener

These are good football tackling drills to use in order to teach both straight on and angle tackling depending on how player x runs through the hole. Form and technique are the most important here and not taking the player to the ground.

Tackling Drill – The Eye Opener:

Line 4 bags(1) about 12 inches from the goal-line approximately 4 feet apart perpendicular to the line:

x
1 1 1 1
y

Give player x the ball and he faces looking towards the 4 bags(1) with his side exposed to player y the defender who is in a good two point stance facing player x.

On the coach’s signal player x runs laterally along the top of the bags and picks one hole to run through. Player y shuffles laterally along the opposite side of the bags mirroring ball carrier x and when x picks a hole player y steps up and makes a good form “thud tackle”.

Coaches should make sure that the head is in a good position, that the defender steps up, attacks the hole the ball carrier picks, gets a good chest to chest contact, explodes with the hips and wraps up the ball carrier.

This is a good thud contact football drill and once contact has been made the football coach blows the whistle and critiques the tackle.

The drill is not to take the ball carrier to the ground but to make good contact with the head in a good position either across the front of the body in angle tackling or tucked to the side or back, chest to chest for straight on tackling.

All players in the group take a turn on either side of the football.

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