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Post by spartandefense on Feb 10, 2016 20:07:52 GMT -6
Questions I want to pose on this topic: 1. Are there any out there who went away from live tackling, but then went back to it? I've heard/seen a lot of teams go away from live tackling and say it didn't effect their tackling, but made them fresher. Anybody have an adverse situation? 2. How would you look to improve team tackling without going live? I understand that you can improve your angles, technique, fundamentals, etc. but to me that equates to the kid who can drain 3-pointers in an empty gym, but can't get a shot off in a game because he doesn't practice it at game speed and his shot is too slow and doesn't translate to the live game. 3. I'm sure many people will say you get all of this by going "thud." I have 2 problems/questions with thud. How do you keep the kids competitive with it? "Thud" turns to "crud" very quickly in our practices. Second, do you expect your smaller tacklers to go "thud" against bigger ball carriers? I would never want my 150 lb Corner thudding our 190 lb FB or even our 170 lb RB, he'll get destroyed. To me it gives him bad habits. Thoughts? In my experience tackling is a 1. Desire and 2. How well your kids perform in the weight room (in the off season and IN SEASON). I have been part of teams that tackled every day in practice and had tackling circuits and we never improved our tackling. We met with coaches from all levels and nothing seemed to work. The biggest reason was our kids didn't lift in the offseason or if we had kids that did, they didn't lift in season because it was not made a priority by the HC. The school I am now has a Strength coach and we never practice tackling. We did one circuit in camp. That's it.
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