When coaching 9 and 10 year olds, a big problem is keeping them motivated while doing the football drills that are necessary from them to get better. It is key to keep the football practices fun. Here are 3 fun football drills and tips to keep your players attention.
If you are coaching peewee football, check out these coaching tips. One is to teach them to step and use their hands when blocking on the O-line. The other the difference between "pain" and "injury".
If you are looking for youth football drills give this one a try. It is a simple and effective open field tackling football drill that we call "Tackle Monster". This drill works best with 7-10 year olds.
Here's a youth football coaching tip for your youth teams--Teaching young kids to tackle and block players on the move.
This is one of my favorite youth football drills. We call it the "3 seconds" one on one pass drill. I have 1 defensive player and 1 offensive player. One of the football coaches keeps score.
Coaching kids at the 60 pound level (5-6 year olds) I noticed that one thing the kids like to do is block in the back on a long gainer. I came up with the following ideas for youth football blocking drills.
I've found one of the hardest things as a football coach is to teach the kids a stance they can launch from. It doesn't matter how many football drills for kids you know, they need help learning how to stay in their stance.
If you are coaching youth football, you are probably looking for new ideas for football drills. Give these a try with your team to liven up your football practices.
Here's a training device that works well for our youth football training. The team is a 2nd year tackle team comprised mostly of 9 year olds with a few 8 year old highly skilled players.
Here are a couple of football lineman drills that I have used year after year. The second football drill works great with your youth teams.
As a coach of 8 yr old boys in NFL Flag Football I would like to share a couple of flag football drills that I use with my team.
These two youth football drills are favorites of mine. I think the one that does the most for my kids is called the Gate Drill. We do it everyday at practice and before every game.
As a coach for a youth flag football team, I needed to create flag football drills that gave all of my players the chance to play all positions. With just 14 players we had trouble with our guys not getting a good feel of a real game experience in football practice.
When you're coaching a youth football team, the players hate running sprints, as did I when I played. Here are a couple of youth football conditioning drills that work well and make practice fun.
Naturally, with young players and coaching youth football, discipline problems NEVER arise when: kids are having fun, the team is working hard and everyone is challenged mentally and physically. We football coaches are the example, on and off the field.
If you're coaching a youth flag football team, here are a couple of free flag football drills which your players will like and ask for repeatedly.
Here is a football drill for coaching youth football defense. We use it for teaching how to change direction on defense. It can be difficult explaining changing direction.
One of the main goals in youth football coaching (13-14 year olds) is to prepare the kids for high school football and of course have fun and win games!Here are a couple of things to contribute--just small practice things which have really helped develop good habits in our players.