First day of pads 2020 (Tackling Drill) 6U-8U Michigan Youth Football

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Tackling Drill

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[overflow.j]

It’s so cute how they talk while they wait and take it and don’t complain or anything

[ussstink]

They are not coaches. Where is the lead up drills that teach tackling form? Heads are down in a lot of the tackle attempts.

[tankertuff]

The kids are on point, feel like some of them drills the distance could have been tightened up. No need to have the kids hitting each other at such a distance, they have to make it to Highschool!

[coachc]

All due respect coach for you time and effort. FYI this type drill was banned by Pop Warner for 2013 rule book. The New Rules Are as Follows:

No full speed head-on blocking or tackling drills in which the players line up more than 3 yards apart are permitted. (Having two linemen in stances immediately across the line of scrimmage from each other and having full-speed drills where the players approach each other at an angle, but not straight ahead in to each other are both permitted.) You can still run this drill but you have to make some adjustments. Make the chute wider and place a blocking dummy at the tackler end in the center and position your "tackler" facing it. Now move the runner up to less than 3 yards from the dummy and on the edge of the chute. Send the runner down the side of the chute and instruct them to not lower their head. The tackler should shuffle at an angle to the runner and make a near shoulder tackle with their near ear against the near hip. They should never put their head across the runners body. Work right should tackles and then flip the runner to the other side of the chute and work left shoulder tackles. Left shoulder tackles are not natural to righties so you have to work on it. Then set runners on both sides of the chute and send one or the other so the tackler has to make a good decision about left or right shoulder tackle. I hope this helps, good luck and God bless.

[richardp.]

Not one kid flinched, froze, stood up, or ran from a hit 👍🏾

[sebasorellana]

These kids got better equipment than me 😭

[timothylopez]

Why are they lowering their heads when both tackling and being tackled? Coaches must pay attention to that and correct it.

[DasFERG]

Knew this video was trash when the first hit was head to head, but "Good job! Good Job!".

[wvlife]

These kids hit harder than some high school players

[ajohn]

As Warren Sapp said, if you’re under 14 years old there’s no need for this type of contact.

[coreypolk]

Early onset CTE and brain damage is the only concern at this age.

[Number-kxgm]

Dang some of these kid tackle better that some of the people my my team
These are the real super stars

[brentsummers]

Enthusiasm from the coaches is half the battle.😀

[sueroution]

The kid with the Batman shirt bouta go hard in games

[minnesotajack]

This will be a very good football team in a few years

[kj]

That first drill is an old school drill. I don't know if we can even do that in most areas.

[tomschoenke]

I'm going to chime in as i read the comments about the possible long term brain injury from these drills. Having done this from 3rd grade to 7th grade, then later in high school, its almost impossible to get injured at this age as the mass is so low, and the speed is so slow. The most dangerous sports for brain injury are biking, skating, skateboarding, skiing, rollerskating, soccer, and hockey. Probably the most dangerous sport overall for kids is swimming. I remember this drill, I loved it, but watching this I realized how little force I had as a child in this and i was fairly bigger than most. My first year i had a helmet that roll on my head with no padding. I believe the opposite, in that a child should have some contact like this so they can say they did it, but as an adult you have to consider the possible outcomes.

[Loggyscott]

lol when I click on this vid it looked like the kids didn’t have pads on I was like

[stephensnyder]

So let's set aside the fact that drills like this provide little benefit but have a high risk of injury. And that it's clear there's been very poor instruction on the elements of tackling prior to this. Day one of pads, slamming into each other full speed is beyond idiotic and something very few professional coaches at any level do. I guess some people just have a fetish for seeing kids pummel each other. But how about this - could someone explain to me the reason for lining up the kids within about 2 yards (or less) along the sides? What is the benefit of that? It's just asking for those players to get rolled into and injured.

[Idck]

Bruh the way that lil man had slammed the other kid