I received my American Football Monthly June 2008 issue the other day. The cover article is The Anatomy of Blocking Kicks. A few of the other articles are Zone Blitzing The Spread Offense, Stifling the Screen Pass, Simplifying the Zone Blitz, Keep the Defense off Balance by Formation and Tempo and The Wildcat Spin; The…
Helicopter sports parents is a term used to describe parents that hover over every aspect of their children’s lives. I might be one, but I hope not. I guess I need to ask my sons’ teachers and coaches to get the real answer. 🙂 I find it interesting that most helicopter sports parents that I…
I just watched this single wing offense tutorial video and it is awesome. I was going to post next week in my regular youth offense column but it is too good not to share now. You must watch this. Enjoy the video. Good Luck this season.
The other day, I was talking to another youth tackle football coach about how his 4th grade youth football team blocks on kick returns. We did not do a great job blocking on kick returns last year, and I want to see how other coaches are blocking kick off defenders. He says he makes sure the kick…
This is a great video from Tennessee’s Coach Fulmer describing and demonstrating several blocks used by the offensive line. I especially like the down block and the reverse block or crab block. We use the crab block quite a bit in our youth football blocking scheme to fill holes, especially in the A Gaps. Enjoy…
After being focused on offense the last two seasons and reading Football Principals and Play by David Nelson, I assigned myself the Defensive Coordinator role this season, so I would focus my efforts on Defense for my tackle pee wee football team. Coach Nelson is right, if your opponent doesn’t score, you can’t lose. And…
Since my original Beast formation post is my top offence post for the week, I will post another favorite youth football play of mine from the Beast formation; Power Rowdy Gut Counter Left This is our Power Beast offensive formation. The fullback is over the offensive guard and the other backs are aligned in the…
On a personal note, I wanted to say thank you to all the Coach Parker’s Youth Football Zone’s blog readers. The blog is officially one month old today, and much to my surprise, I wrote an article a day thanks to the motivation I received by watching the blog readership increase everyday. There’s nothing like…
The Beast Offense is a great youth offense. My other Beast offense post was getting a ton of visitors today, so I hit Google to see if my page was ranked high, and I found this video on the Beast offense. In the video, Scotts Branch uses the Beast as their starting formation then shifts…