Youth Football Practice, Third Practice
9th August 2008
Thursday Practice Schedule
This is a short summary of our football practice Thursday. We gave the kids off and then Wednesday is our first padded football practice on Thursday. As usual we had expected to equipment issues, making sure everyone had everything correctly, snapped the locks, trunk hooks, belts tightened and so can not assume the young players know how to put their gear on properly.
Fortunately, it's about 90 degrees off the recent highs of high 90-ies. We now have a dynamic warm up and the angle of a resolution to fit 10 minutes. We have added these fit form of dispute as part of a dynamic warm-up. Our warmups are always done without a helmet, including fit the angle form tackle. During the dynamic heating still have only 2 rows facing each other. We started to fit this form of dispute, starting with our players toe to toe, face to face. We want our tacklers to be in touch when they are on their toes ballcarriers fingers to make sure you do not overextended and keeping your head up. Each coach has his 5 children, of course, and we demand perfection in the form, contact point, head placement, knee bend, etc. The player may not turn out to stand until a coach taps him on the head. We are all off then back to 5 feet and do the same for a walk, then jog. With so many players the first year of this additional form of work was needed.
Then we got our helmets on the radio and competitive fumble recovery drills for all. We introduced our partner system during the first break and assigns partners for the book and went through the first day of issue / quiz. As a team we then had three competitive groups, neighborhood solving exercises. Children ages 7-9 not splatter / mat solving exercises during this period. Then we get into the 3 slot challenge of solving for children who successfully moved from the neighborhood as young children progress in their neighborhoods.
We split back and lines and radio lines in the first and second step, freezes, and then we went to freeze the handbags, and then added a progression where they drive blocked dummy. We also reviewed our base blocking rule (helmet off) and ask dad over offensive line and quizzed them on the rule and their progression. They are very good with this one. We worked on the progression of wedge 20 minutes, and kids are not real good with him, got all the way through it, it does not happen often.
backs worked the ball security and pass catching progression and splatter mat blocking drills. During the break again reviewed the position and base defense. back to put in 4 "sainted six" playing in the age 10-11 and 12-13. Children ages 7-9 get a play in. We did it in skeleton form with the father holding the shield in place to block the attack to make sure the head was the correct placement of the blocking back. All game now runs 10 meters, in addition to those practices will run from 15 yards.
We have finished with the Deer Hunter games for fun and conditioning.
All of these exercises are detailed with pictures and diagrams in the book and DVD.
We'll keep you posted on our progress.
