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Post by coachtfry on Jan 9, 2008 11:51:17 GMT -6
We intend on starting a youth flag football league in a couple of months to assist us in recruiting players for our youth tackle football teams and developing our passing game. I have coached tackle football for 24 years but I have never coached flag football and I do not know much about it. I would appreciate it if anyone can provide me with any flag football related stuff. I am looking for flag rule books, flag playbooks, flag practice plans, and general information/suggestions, etc.
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Post by davecisar on Jan 9, 2008 15:42:29 GMT -6
We did the same a few year back. Full contact, 9 on 9 No kickoffs No rush on PATs Punts Only Fair Caught, No Rush No running inside the 10 No blocks below the waist We didnt do trophies or league titles Mouthpieces mandatory Tackling is 15 yard penalty
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Post by coachkyle on Jan 10, 2008 11:02:40 GMT -6
Coach, We have been doing a flag league for 3 years now. We dont hold practices and the kids play two games on the same day for four weekends in April. I have used this as an extra passing camp for my kids. I teach before and during the games. I use play cards and just show the kids the routes and talk terminologys. It tends to help when we start up in the fall. The kids have a blast. Our league website, www.bluevalleyfootballclub.org has all of our flag rules and regs. They should help alot. If you have any questions just shoot me an email. Thanks and good luck.
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Post by davecisar on Jan 11, 2008 19:51:42 GMT -6
We did: 1 practice per week 4 practices before first game 6 full games, regular football time regs We were able to pretty much run our base offense but with 2 fewer O-linemen, a tad wider splits and no crab blocking or playside pulling ( pulled backside) We used it to experiment with new play series, one year Dart, the next Coverdale MEsh as well as try kids at different positions than they played in the fall. Different mindset than fall tackle football.
Reasonable use of time if you can find people with a similar mindset (spring developmental league for us) After 2 years and no losses, the other teams started scouting us and even filming us and not playing all their kids, defeating the shared goal and foundational premise we all aggreed upon when we started the spring league. Final straw was a Saturday morning game delayed by lightning 3 hours, time to move on and forget about it ( people have plans on nice Saturdays including other of their kids sports), no says the opposition.
So we went to doing our own thing in the spring 1 day a week, plyos/speed development, skill building and fun team building games instead of flag football for 8 weeks. Be carefull who you join forces with or at least make sure the league is in line with your goals/mission, whatever that may be.
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