Youth Football Skills & Drills: A New Coach's Guide (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP) - Softcover

Bass, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071441794 ISBN 13: 9780071441797

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2005

Synopsis

This is the ultimate toolkit for youth football coaches. With its great emphasis on position on offense, defense, and special teams, football is the most complicated and challenging youth sport to coach. "Youth Football Skills and Drills" gives you the hands-on, step-by-step guidance to instruct young players and prepare them for the season. It presents and explains all of the essential techniques to play each position, provides proven drills you can use to teach each of these techniques, and suggests an optimum time-line structure for teaching and practicing each drill. Unique among youth football coaching guides, this key to coaching success recognizes that most youth-team players play on both sides of the ball, and it recommends special drills that pair up key offensive and defensive positions. It also supplies important advice on organizing your coaching staff depending on the number of coaches you have and their areas of interest and strength.Important features of this unparalleled resource include: 64 drills covering vital skills needed at every position; 23 group drills that constitute a defensive and offensive play book for every game situation; drills that teach the tackling and catching skills all players need; match-up drills for key offensive and defensive positions - wide receiver and defensive back, defensive/offensive line, linebacker and running back, and more; passing - and running-game drills for both offense and defense; and, special-teams drills and plays.

About this title

About the Author:

Coach Tom Bass has more than 25 years of NFL coaching experience. He spent most of his coaching career as a Defensive Coordinator, but also served as an assistant coach to every position. He coached for many years with the Cincinnati Bengals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the San Diego Chargers. He currently writes for Kickoff magazine, runs football clinics, and maintains his very active website, www.coachbass.com, while answering questions from coaches, players, and parents in his popular "Ask the Coach" column on the NFL website, www.NFLhs.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071441794
• ISBN 13: 9780071441797
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176