The more years you coach, you start to recognize certain things remain the same. For myself, it is a introductory offensive line blocking system, known as Wall Blocking. There...]]>

The more years you coach, you start to recognize certain things remain the same. For myself, it is a introductory offensive line blocking system, known as Wall Blocking. There are some “gurus” who insist they are the founders (which is astonishing since I was implementing it BEFORE they began coaching), but no matter it is a mighty, uncomplicated and good way of coaching your offensive line. It teaches your players how to block as a unit. It is a variation of zone blocking.

This blocking has been the one staple in my over twenty years of coaching pee wee football, for my offensive linemen. Use it since it is simple to teach and works on a variety of grade levels. This style of offensive blocking has served me well with the older tackle kids as well as the younger flag players. It has been used with great success on my championship fourteen year old travel teams as well as the younger teams I have been a part of. Heck, I have even exploited wall blocking on my five year old flag football team.

The easiest manner in which to instruct wall blocking is to start the linemen with very tight splits. When we talk about a line split we are talking about the space between the offensive lineman. You instruct the entire line that on the snap of the football all of the lineman move united, keeping as close to each other as possible.

Teach this technique to both the right and the left making sure the lineman stay together “like a wall” as they move together in unison. The secret is making sure that all of the offensive linemen open up, seal, move in the same direction and at the equivalent speed. There will be multiple repetitions needed to make sure in the wall stays intact, especially when the players start moving in a direction. Keeping repeating it to the kids, telling them we cannot allow any holes, or penetration in our wall. Tell the kids the if there are open areas, or penetration against our wall, we will leak, allowing for the worst case scenario. The biggest problem is when a defensive opponent rushes into our running backs, stopping them for no gain.

There is one goal for the line as a whole, stay together, forming a tight wall as they block in one direction.

A few of the primary advantages of wall blocking include:

Not difficult to instruct It is successful versus any defensive alignment It neutralizes defensive blitzing It works both ways (left and right) It has been successful with every age group It has been successful with every kind of unique skill level It has been successful in making outstanding open areas for the running game

Wall blocking has been and always will be an crucial blocking plan I teach to every player, on every squad I coach. I always instruct this technique early in the season since we will use it all season. I understand the benefits it gives my team no matter which style of offense I am using this season.

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The following list was put together to assist coaches preparing for their upcoming flag football season. The task of coaching a flag football team is a challenging...]]>

The following list was put together to assist coaches preparing for their upcoming flag football season. The task of coaching a flag football team is a challenging responsibility, but if prepared, the task is manageable and very rewarding.

Preparing for the upcoming Youth Flag Football season.

1) Assess your own coaching ability and identify your strengths and weakness. Use these items as a basis for assessing yourself: Know of flag football, level of motivation for coaching, organizational skills, communicating and time commitment. Once you’ve recognized where you have strength and where you’ll need help. You will be able to use this information when finding your assistant coaches (step 2) and assigning various tasks.

2) Establish your goals for the upcoming flag football season. It’s important to create your goals for the season. To many times youth coaches take on the task of coaching and they feel their only goal is to win. I’m not saying winning can’t be a goal, but it shouldn’t be your only goal. I always felt that I had an obligation to the players and parents to teach the game of flag football. I also feel obligated to make sure that each player I coached left the season a better player than when they arrived. Depending on the level of player and age, your goals will vary. Keep them simple and make sure they are attainable. Winning the league champions should not be the goal for the year. It would however be a great occomplishment, and possibility a result of achieving your goals through out the year.

3) Find at least 4 coaches to assist with upcoming season. Gain an understanding of their skills. Have they coaches before, scheduling commitment, prefer defense or offense? My best assistance coaches have come from various back grounds, but the one thing that was consistant was their time comittment and patenients for the players. Some of my best coaches had not played football before, but were great with working with kids. Keep a good balance of assistances and make sure they understand your goals for the year.

4) Greet the parents and players at first meeting. Although being coach doesn’t mean you have to become great friends with everybody, but it should include you getting to know the parents through out the year. The first meeting is the time to introduce yourself, discuss your goals, meet the team, and let the parents ask questions. To many times coaches will neglect to have a first meeting to meet and greet the team. This is a great opportunity to start the season and get everybody on the same page.

4) Establish a flag football practice plan that will utilize your time wisely. Showing up to practice without a plan is always a bad thing. The players will be more involved if you are organized and precise with your direction. You also need to utilze your time effectively. You will have limited time each week to practice, every minute will count. Your participation will also be high if your practices are organized and effective.

5) Establish how you will handle asigning player positions. How you rotate players during the year and in games is an important factor. This one thing drive coaches, players and parents crazy – especially if they do now what your plan is. Being specific on this will work in the beginning will eliminate anxiety and create a positive learning environement. Most players want to get the ball during the game. The nice thing about flag football is all players get the opportunity to get the ball. I coached 5-6 year olds last year in a 5 on 5 flag football league – 6 game season with a play off at the end – I had 10 kids. I created a rotatiion that each player would play every position during the year. I created a red and blue team – 5 on each team – each team made up of equal talent. Red would play defense the first have of the game and blue played offense, They switched for the second half. During the first 5 games each player rotated through every position on offense. The 6th game was used to warm up for the play-off game and I put together my best line up based on the past 5 games. I used this line up for the 6th game and playoffs. This was done for both the red and blue team. The key is each player was given the opportunity to play and learn various positions.

6) Prepare flag football plays in advance of your practice and games. Utlize a specific time in practice to work on executing perfect plays. One of the most important thing during the season will be to run flag football plays that are effective and your team can run without error. I’ve seen many coaches show up to games and make their plays up during the game. The team makes many errors and in return they have a bad experience. If you implement your plays in practice, make revisions and get your team on the same page as you, you will find that your team will be competetive regardless of their skill level. There are many sites that offer plays designed for 5 man, 6 man, 7 man, and 8 man youth flag football

7) Get your parents involved- invite a team mom to assist with organizing the schedule, team sporting gear, and weekly snack schedule.? This is an important role and will assist with additional time consuming duties during the flag football season.

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The more years you coach, you start to recognize certain things remain the same. For myself, it is a introductory offensive line blocking system, known as Wall Blocking. There...]]>

The more years you coach, you start to recognize certain things remain the same. For myself, it is a introductory offensive line blocking system, known as Wall Blocking. There are some “gurus” who insist they are the founders (which is astonishing since I was implementing it BEFORE they began coaching), but no matter it is a mighty, uncomplicated and good way of coaching your offensive line. It teaches your players how to block as a unit. It is a variation of zone blocking.

This blocking has been the one staple in my over twenty years of coaching pee wee football, for my offensive linemen. Use it since it is simple to teach and works on a variety of grade levels. This style of offensive blocking has served me well with the older tackle kids as well as the younger flag players. It has been used with great success on my championship fourteen year old travel teams as well as the younger teams I have been a part of. Heck, I have even exploited wall blocking on my five year old flag football team.

The easiest manner in which to instruct wall blocking is to start the linemen with very tight splits. When we talk about a line split we are talking about the space between the offensive lineman. You instruct the entire line that on the snap of the football all of the lineman move united, keeping as close to each other as possible.

Teach this technique to both the right and the left making sure the lineman stay together “like a wall” as they move together in unison. The secret is making sure that all of the offensive linemen open up, seal, move in the same direction and at the equivalent speed. There will be multiple repetitions needed to make sure in the wall stays intact, especially when the players start moving in a direction. Keeping repeating it to the kids, telling them we cannot allow any holes, or penetration in our wall. Tell the kids the if there are open areas, or penetration against our wall, we will leak, allowing for the worst case scenario. The biggest problem is when a defensive opponent rushes into our running backs, stopping them for no gain.

There is one goal for the line as a whole, stay together, forming a tight wall as they block in one direction.

A few of the primary advantages of wall blocking include:

Not difficult to instruct It is successful versus any defensive alignment It neutralizes defensive blitzing It works both ways (left and right) It has been successful with every age group It has been successful with every kind of unique skill level It has been successful in making outstanding open areas for the running game

Wall blocking has been and always will be an crucial blocking plan I teach to every player, on every squad I coach. I always instruct this technique early in the season since we will use it all season. I understand the benefits it gives my team no matter which style of offense I am using this season.

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The following list was put together to assist coaches preparing for their upcoming flag football season. The task of coaching a flag football team is a challenging...]]>

The following list was put together to assist coaches preparing for their upcoming flag football season. The task of coaching a flag football team is a challenging responsibility, but if prepared, the task is manageable and very rewarding.

Preparing for the upcoming Youth Flag Football season.

1) Assess your own coaching ability and identify your strengths and weakness. Use these items as a basis for assessing yourself: Know of flag football, level of motivation for coaching, organizational skills, communicating and time commitment. Once you’ve recognized where you have strength and where you’ll need help. You will be able to use this information when finding your assistant coaches (step 2) and assigning various tasks.

2) Establish your goals for the upcoming flag football season. It’s important to create your goals for the season. To many times youth coaches take on the task of coaching and they feel their only goal is to win. I’m not saying winning can’t be a goal, but it shouldn’t be your only goal. I always felt that I had an obligation to the players and parents to teach the game of flag football. I also feel obligated to make sure that each player I coached left the season a better player than when they arrived. Depending on the level of player and age, your goals will vary. Keep them simple and make sure they are attainable. Winning the league champions should not be the goal for the year. It would however be a great occomplishment, and possibility a result of achieving your goals through out the year.

3) Find at least 4 coaches to assist with upcoming season. Gain an understanding of their skills. Have they coaches before, scheduling commitment, prefer defense or offense? My best assistance coaches have come from various back grounds, but the one thing that was consistant was their time comittment and patenients for the players. Some of my best coaches had not played football before, but were great with working with kids. Keep a good balance of assistances and make sure they understand your goals for the year.

4) Greet the parents and players at first meeting. Although being coach doesn’t mean you have to become great friends with everybody, but it should include you getting to know the parents through out the year. The first meeting is the time to introduce yourself, discuss your goals, meet the team, and let the parents ask questions. To many times coaches will neglect to have a first meeting to meet and greet the team. This is a great opportunity to start the season and get everybody on the same page.

4) Establish a flag football practice plan that will utilize your time wisely. Showing up to practice without a plan is always a bad thing. The players will be more involved if you are organized and precise with your direction. You also need to utilze your time effectively. You will have limited time each week to practice, every minute will count. Your participation will also be high if your practices are organized and effective.

5) Establish how you will handle asigning player positions. How you rotate players during the year and in games is an important factor. This one thing drive coaches, players and parents crazy – especially if they do now what your plan is. Being specific on this will work in the beginning will eliminate anxiety and create a positive learning environement. Most players want to get the ball during the game. The nice thing about flag football is all players get the opportunity to get the ball. I coached 5-6 year olds last year in a 5 on 5 flag football league – 6 game season with a play off at the end – I had 10 kids. I created a rotatiion that each player would play every position during the year. I created a red and blue team – 5 on each team – each team made up of equal talent. Red would play defense the first have of the game and blue played offense, They switched for the second half. During the first 5 games each player rotated through every position on offense. The 6th game was used to warm up for the play-off game and I put together my best line up based on the past 5 games. I used this line up for the 6th game and playoffs. This was done for both the red and blue team. The key is each player was given the opportunity to play and learn various positions.

6) Prepare flag football plays in advance of your practice and games. Utlize a specific time in practice to work on executing perfect plays. One of the most important thing during the season will be to run flag football plays that are effective and your team can run without error. I’ve seen many coaches show up to games and make their plays up during the game. The team makes many errors and in return they have a bad experience. If you implement your plays in practice, make revisions and get your team on the same page as you, you will find that your team will be competetive regardless of their skill level. There are many sites that offer plays designed for 5 man, 6 man, 7 man, and 8 man youth flag football

7) Get your parents involved- invite a team mom to assist with organizing the schedule, team sporting gear, and weekly snack schedule.? This is an important role and will assist with additional time consuming duties during the flag football season.

Lastly – Stay to the plan and HAVE FUN!

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