I received this suggestion on youth football equipment from Dean. Creative and effective for skills and cost–a double winner!
From Dean…
I’m in a low budget program, and we usually improvise rather than purchase football equipment.
For an open field tackling drill with full pads but without full contact, we have two coaches each with a tall heavy tackling dummy about 2-3 yards from each other on the same yard line, say it’s our twenty.
A pylon is placed about five yards, laterally, from them on the yard line five yards from them, say it’s our fifteen.
One player starts another ten yards away, laterally, and five more down field, say it’s our ten.
4-5 players(or more) line up after him.
On ‘go’ one player runs (like taking an angle) past the cone (he doesn’t cross the fifteen before passing the cone) and at the last feasible moment one coach (by prearranged signal) moves his bag forward, just slightly, and the player hits that bag low and hard, with his head past it.
You can set it up on different parts of the field for different player assignments (inside or outside containment).
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