Don't Stop Teaching Youth Football Fundamentals
By Marty Gitlin
Special to PlaySportsTV
Larry Pinto has seen it before and it makes him cringe.The highly successful football coach at Mayfield High School in Cleveland believes many youth football coaches stop teaching fundamentals too early.
Pinto thinks football fundamentals should remain a staple of practices for quite a while so young players will learn how to play football the right way. But he’s watched as coaches have scrapped pointing out the basics in favor of starting scrimmages that their players are simply not prepared to play.
“A lot of coaches, maybe three or four weeks into teaching beginners will go into scrimmage situations,” Pinto said. “But you have to stick with the blocking and the tackling and how to throw and ball and how to catch the ball. You need to work on pursuit angle drills for different positions.”
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Great article! Explains why it is a must for every youth football coach to teach his team the basics...
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