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How do you know what works on a Youth Football Offense against an unknown #1 Defense?

How do you know what works on a Youth Football Offense against an unknown #1 Defense? This is a great question about youth football offenses. I struggle with this offensive issue against new teams and many times for the first game of the season. Everyone hates the unknown! How does your team stack up against…

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Blocking in Youth Football – Coaching Clinic

This is another installment in my coaching clinic series about blocking in youth football.  I hope you enjoy the video.  I have also posted a few other blocking videos below that I like from YouTube. Youth Football Blocking Violent Shoving / Knock People Down on Bootockies Hands are Weapons Eyes on Target – Body goes…

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Are you blocking and tackling during youth football practice?

I am not sure why, but this season my brain keeps saying to me, “football is just blocking and tackling.”  Yes, I know this comes from Lombardi… Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things ; blocking and tackling. – Vince Lombardi In past seasons, I’ve…

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Portable Blocking Sled – Gilman King Crab Sled

We introduced the Gilman King Crab Sled at our 7-9 year old practice this week and the response was great.  The kids loved the new piece of equipment to use and the challenge to push it around the field.  I let another coach use the King Crab Sled at our Tuesday practice and he thought…

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Blocking Offensive Line Calls Youth Football – 7 to 12U

I’ve been helping a couple of  Ft Worth area youth football teams this season with their offensive line coaching.  We’ve installed Rule Blocking and a few blocking calls so the boys can adjust at the line of scrimmage.  If you would like to research more about blocking Calls, read Radar Blocking.  For us at the 7-11…

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Youth Football Blocking Tips – 10 for Youth Football Offensive Lineman

The Youth Football Blocking Tips 10 for Youth Football Offensive Lineman is an older youth football coaching blof post when I first starting writing Coaching Youth Football Tips, Talk, Plays and Playbook blog at CoachParker.org. (Updates 8/27/2020) I cannot stress the importance of coaching youth football offensive lineman to block. Too many youth football coaches…

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Zone Blocking Youth Football Presentation – Great Info

I just found this great presentation on Outisde Zone Blocking youth football teams that I wanted to share before I forgot. You can download the pdf the Mahonz Outside Zone Blocking Youth Football presentation here and or more Zone blocking info over at DumCoach. This was at Gregory Double Wing back in 2009 but link…

Offensive Line Clinic – Mushroom Society

I feel pretty lucky stumbling on the Mushroom Society’s website run by a group of professional Coaches of Offensive Linemen, COOL.  They host an annual offensive line clinic in Cincinnati.  The 2009 clinic is May 15 &16.  What’s really cool about http://www.thecoolclinic.com is that you can order the Clinic DVDs from 1996 to 2008.  The list of…