Coaching Youth Football Special Teams Articles by Coach Parker Youth Football Coach
Here is a Youth Football Special Teams playbook / eBook – Free Working Draft Version that I quickly threw together last week for another youth football coach asking about special teams. I though a few others might like to take a look at what I have done on Special Teams since 2007 when I started…
In this Special Teams blog post we will discuss Youth Football Kickoff Special Teams and Coach Parker’s 3 Proven Onside Kicks youth kick plays Opie, Reggie and Mickey Mouse. These onside kick strategies have been very effective over the last 10 youth football seasons. Special Teams is very important in youth football and too many…
Today I’ve got a youth football drill video on Bowling for Onside Kicks drill. It’s a fun youth football drill to help teach your players how to receive and catch onside kicks. I’m reviewing this drill today because a coach asked me the other day about kick returns. This drill is the first area we…
Here is another episode, Special Teams, in my Youth Football Coaching Clinic Series that I developed for KYA Football. Kick Off – Onside Kicks most popular Deep kicks allow for long returns dangerous unless practiced Directional Kicks to sidelines – hit number sideline #40 or #30 marked on field Kick to your sidelines majority…
About two years ago KickingWorld’s Coach Brent Grablachoff sent me his kicking book which I really enjoyed, and now he’s out done himself with his new kicking DVD, the Complete Guide to Kicking. If your kicker needs to get better at kickoffs or field goals this DVD is for them. Or maybe you are a…
I read an article the other day about a High School team that has decided not to Punt on Special Teams. Based on their stats, they conclude that they have a better opportunity to make a first down vs the gains made by punting. Since I coach youth football pre-teens, this seems like a pretty…
Last night, I read American Football Coaches Association’s Complete Guide to Special Teams. This is an excellent 250 page book on Special Teams tactics, drills and techniques written by some of the best Special Teams coaches in football and edited by Coach Bill Mallory and Coach Don Nehlen. Some of the tactics outlined in the book…
In 2006 when I started coaching tackle youth football again, the leagues coaching coordinator was very big on kicking onside kicks. That was his thing. To be honest, onside kicking every kick did not work out for us. Sure we picked a few turnovers, but the majority of time we gave the other team 7…
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…