Here is one of my football practice drills that I like to do on the first few days of practice before equipment handout. This football drill gives the football coaches tremendous insight to new players' abilities and mindset.
When coaching youth football teams, I have found this football drill to be especially effective. It allows the football coaches to observe, technique including form, quickness and willingness to run the hole, block tough and hit/tackle.
Recently, I helped to coach a team of 6 yr olds. Most of coaching experience is at the high school level and above, not youth football coaching. Man, what a change. My practice was a disaster.
I picked up these football lineman drills in an idea swap. I use this drill to teach our pass patterns in the preseaon. I use it alot and feel obligated to pass it on to you.
Here are free football drills that I use primarily for linemen, but any position would benefit from it. They teach speed, agility, ball control, & tackling.
If you're looking for effective football training drills, try the one below. We use this football drill called Hamburger.
This football coaching drill relates to young players (1st and 2nd year).
One of the best football tackling drills we have done to really improve our tackling is our THUD drill.
Try these flag football tips to teach your players the positions. In order to quickly teach youth flag football players positions on the field, I take old golf balls and mark them with "quarterback", "cornerback" etc.
I like to use quick football lineman drills to warm up the linemen before doing an individual football drill.
I am always reminded of that Garth Brooks song "We Shall Be Free", when Warren Moon, John Elway and Troy Aikman come on to say the same thing; the three keys to success is "Education, Education, Education." It is these three seconds that has inspired my football coaching philosophy: Teach the kids.
This is a good youth football coaching tip for all youth football coaches. It was taught to me by my coaches and my mentors. We run the exact same playbook as our varsity.
Try these football practice drills with your players. This is a football tip that works well for all ages but especially with your new high school team who may just be starting out with tackle football.
For youth football training, I like to use this football drill to teach my players how to develop soft hands which is necessary to catch properly. This drill is fun and quickly shows immediate cause and effect of doing this football drill correctly or incorrectly.
Here is one of the conditioning drills for football that I use for team building and open field tackling. We call this drill Tackle Tag.
Here is one of the football offensive plays we teach our offensive linemen when we are trying to draw an offsides penalty is called "shutdown". We call a play and the count is shutdown.
Here are a couple of youth football drills to try with your youth teams. The first is a fumble recovery drill we run at practice. The second is a good football drill for running backs, especially the younger players.
When my focus is on coaching football defense I use the following football drill. It is good as a conditioning drill as well as a tackling/blocking football drill.