Youth Football Secrets: How We Achieved Zero Injuries
Discover how our unique coaching methods kept our youth football team injury-free. We emphasize efficient training practices while letting players naturally learn the game – a game-changing approach for young athletes looking to thrive on the field. #YouthFootball #CoachingTips #InjuryPrevention #FootballTraining #TeamSuccess #YouthAthletics #EfficientTraining #PlaySmart #FootballCoaching #LearnByPlaying
I'll give you a couple like real life Examples so I coach in a uh a youth Football program uh leue a team system That we have nineu 10U 11U 12 you and 14U the only team without a major injury Was our team now some of it could be Luck obviously but wait we I I see all These teams running the guys around the Field over and over and over again and We never do any of that ever ever like There's no sitting there St we come Right out the cones are out they do Their change of Direction they move on To the next thing they move and and it's Like that's how practice starts like Like um you know like when they go and Uh get their I mean this is completely Countered if you watch our practice and Watch other people you'd be like that That that seems crazy to to most regular Quote unquote coaches because when they Go get a drink we don't even like most Coaches go get a drink don't don't say Anything we don't we don't care what They do until we're ready for them to Come back as long as they don't run go You know they're ders old as long as They don't go you know all over the Place St within the area you can talk to Each other hang out boom whistle comes Back they come back and they go to work They're getting ample break then they Come back they're expected to do I Learned from Derek with the um uh with
With what they're doing we were putting Plays the literally R out the plays we You know I was trying to you know teach What I taught last year where memorize What these words mean you know I drew The plays basically uh you know on the Computer and I put the plays in there And they had multiple options with each With each play and was drawn out Everyone knew what they had to do Everybody in the whole entire field they Went faster they were much more Efficient on offense the defensive Coordinators like how can I invite next Year and put that into my Sy like my how Can I do that with what you're doing on Defense for next year so I can show you How to do it it's an easy way but you Know I'll teach you to new off season But I learned that from what Derek was Doing with his guy what they were doing With his guys and I'm like you know what The light bulb just went off I'm like Why am I wasting my time trying to get Nine-year-olds to memorize things They'll learn the game as they do these Plays they'll learn the routes as they Do these they'll learn the blocking Scheme as they do this trying to make Them memorize words that they're going To have to relearn when they go to high School anyway because someone's run a Different system and when they to high School they got if they playing college
They got to relearn a new system anyway When they go to College let's get them Playing football right and do it quickly But th those kind of things were really Interesting and in college the the most Surprising team in the country is Indiana right and they're 10 and0