Looking for youth football coaching tips? You’ve come to the right place! Try out these ideas sent in by Dave and let me know how it goes for you.
From Dave…
I have head coached high school football and asst coached Tier 1 (21 years old max).
I now find myself coaching my grandson’s Pre-Atom team (ages 7-10) and it’s got a lot of different challenges.
The main challenge is to develop team progression for competing in games whilst at the same time developing individual player fundamentals of all players for all positions. The aim is to ensure they get at least a small taste of everything right from the start of their football careers, regardless of their body types and abilities or love for the sport.
To do the latter, I do two things:
1) Currently 22 players ~ bought 22 footballs…all players carry one in tuck/secure mode in most sprints and for all laps, regardless of whether they confit into lineman or other non-ball handling slots.
2) We find time at practices for all players to get at least a small taste of each position even though they may never play it. For example, we lined up all 22 footballs on the ground then all players marched up to them, and went through the basic snap process (sans QB).
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