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Aug 15, 2010 15:19:19 GMT -6
Post by blb on Aug 15, 2010 15:19:19 GMT -6
Lombardi said, "When you see a guy running down the street with everything you own, That's tackling!!"
Grab first, hit second., especially in open field - ten grabs is better than nine big hits and a miss. Hang on until the "Thundering Herd" arrives.
It's not who hits the hardest - kinesthetic factor.
I think either method will work. Several years ago I got the Dave Wannstedt tape on Miami/Dallas 4-3 defense that included the aforementioned "Tackling Progression", and thought it sounded great and made a lot of sense.
It just didn't work for me (probably taught it poorly) or our kids. We have been what I consider a very good tackling team most years and when we haven't been, it was because we just weren't very good physically or were getting out-athleted a lot.
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Aug 15, 2010 15:58:51 GMT -6
Post by coachd5085 on Aug 15, 2010 15:58:51 GMT -6
So is shooting the hands to go with chest tackling, and not with using the side and/or top of the shoulder? That would explain certain things. A week ago a recent HS player, now into coaching, explained to me that you can deliver your biggest hits chest tackling, because you have the full forward force of both knees & hips behind it. That's true, and chest tackling would be really great if we had the skeleton of a quadruped or bird. If our necks bent back from the rest of our backbone to the degree you see in those animals, it'd be easy. However, your breastbone is approximately parallel to your spine, so hitting with the front of it can transmit only a little of that vector. Unfortunately the only way to efficiently transmit that force using a human body is to have some surface that hits in that direction. Our necks are too fragile to sustain use of the top of the head as a battering ram, so a somewhat angled hit with an edge of the shoulder is chosen as a compromise between protection of the head and neck and transmission of force. I'm sure the chest tackle works, but I'm not sold on either its ability to deliver force or how easy it is to get the head out of the way with it. Bob..to be clear...when people are talking about "Chest" tackling, they are..well..at least I AM..(and I think they are) talking about striking with the front blade of the shoulder pad, above the pectoral. They are not talking about striking with the breastbone. Keep in mind, that the opponent is often proceeding with a forward lean as well, creating a contact surface that can be struck on the rise. It isn't like you are tackling a tree trunk, fully erect. To cut out all the kinesiology though, just remember to bend your knees and keep the head up. Striking with the front shoulder pad surface seems to facilitate this. Tackling with the TOP OF THE SHOULDER...seems to lead to more waist bending and head down. Lets face it... 75% of tackling is desire. Bend knees, head up, run your feet....
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Aug 17, 2010 23:17:27 GMT -6
Post by coachdoug on Aug 17, 2010 23:17:27 GMT -6
Matt Brophy posted these videos on this site a couple years ago. They are excellent and most of the stuff can be used with youth players. They don't talk much specifically about shooting the hands vs. wrapping (they actually use both terms a bit), but I think a lot of the technique being taught and the drills they demonstrate are very good for most youth coaches to use. There is also an excellent discussion about the coaching points for "Scoop & Score." The four videos cover a ton of defensive drills & techniques (everything from coverage to d-line drills to LB play) - all the tackling material is in the first video. Each video is about 30 minutes, so there is about 2 hours of great coaching material here. (Note: sometimes it takes a while for the videos to load, so if you see a bunch of random numbers below, give it about 15-20 seconds and the videos should appear).
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Aug 17, 2010 23:28:22 GMT -6
Post by cyflcoach on Aug 17, 2010 23:28:22 GMT -6
Good stuff Doug. Thanks for reposting this.
Dave Hartman CYFL Coach
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Aug 19, 2010 20:56:41 GMT -6
Post by bobgoodman on Aug 19, 2010 20:56:41 GMT -6
I'm going to have to reserve some time for those videos, thanks. Fortunately tonight in the entire Pee-Wee div. of the Warriors (not broken into teams yet), I saw only one player put his hands up to protect himself instead of tackling, although I did see a couple of "matador" moves too. This bunch must be more into it than those of similar age I coached in years past.
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