Escape Techniques
Purpose:
Escape techniques are techniques that are used by a player to evade a player while advancing up the field. Escape techniques are primarily used by defensive players to evade the blocks of the offense, but these drills also apply to wide receivers trying to evade a “Jam” technique from a defensive player. Players use a series of these escape technique drills daily to create muscle memory in their arms while doing these drills with a partner.
Drill Set Up:
Drill should be set up on a line, the sideline or end-line. Players should partner up and stand facing each other approximately 2 feet from each other. Drill starts with one player placing his hand on the opposite player’s shoulder.
Salute Drill:
Salute drill is an “edge” rushing drill that players would use primarily in a “5” technique or wider. Defensive player starts with a hand on his shoulder, begins the drill by swinging his inside hand towards the outside of the offensive player’s wrist, knocking the O player’s hand from his shoulder. Defensive player then progresses by swinging his outside across his body towards the elbow of the O player while forward with their outside foot. This movement will serve to decrease the D player’s surface area and clear the body of the O player. Defensive player will then progress with their “Rip” move and pass the O player’s block. For the sake of the drill, players will reset with the defensive player’s hand on the offensive players shoulder thus becoming the offensive player for his partner’s turn in the drill.
Hook Drill:
The Hook Drill starts in the same position as the Salute Drill. The Hook Drill is the counter move to the Salute Drill. Defensive player starts with a hand on his shoulder, begins the drill by swinging his inside hand towards the inside of the offensive player’s wrist, knocking the O player’s hand from his shoulder. Defensive player then progresses by swinging his outside across his body towards the elbow of the O player while forward with their outside foot. This movement will serve to decrease the D player’s surface area and clear the body of the O player. Defensive player will then progress with their “Inside Swim” move and pass the O player’s block. For the sake of the drill, players will reset with the defensive player’s hand on the offensive players shoulder thus becoming the offensive player for his partner’s turn in the drill.
Club Move Drill:
The Club Move starts in the same position as the Salute Drill with the Offensive player’s hand on the Defensive player’s shoulder. The D player will swing his arm across his body, aiming for the O player’s shoulder with his hand. The D player will strike the O players hand off of his body while clearing the O player’s body by taking a step with their outside foot. The outside step will create space so that the D player will be able to progress in his pass rush with either a “Rip” or “Swim” move.
Swat Move:
The Swat Move starts in the drill start position with a player’s hand on the other player’s shoulder. The Swat Move is a variation of the Club Move. The Swat Move is a double club move. Player swings both arms up towards the O player’s arms. The D player will aim their inside arm in between the O player’s arm striking the O player’s away arm while striking the near arm with the D player’s far arm. D player’s arms will move in a circular motion together to strike the O players arms away from the D player.
Trap Move:
The Trap Move starts with the players in front of each other. One player will have both arms extended on the other player’s shoulders facing his partner. The D player will swing both of his arms around and over the O player’s arms striking the O player’s forearms thus clearing his hands from the D player’s body. The drill is finished with the D player striking the O player in the chest and obtaining inside position in their pass rush progression.
Forklift Move:
The Forklift Move starts with the players in front of each other. One player will have both arms extended on the other player’s shoulders facing his partner. The D player will swing both of his arms around and under the O player’s arms striking the O player’s elbows and lifting their arms up this will clear the o player’s hands from the D player’s body. The drill is finished with the D player striking the O player in the chest and obtaining inside position in their pass rush progression.
Hatchet:
The Hatchet Move is an “edge” rushing drill that players would use primarily in a “5” technique or wider. The players start in the drill’s start position with one players hand on the other player’s shoulder. The D player raises there arm above the outstretched arm of the O player. The D player then swings his arm down, striking the O player’s forearm and wrist with his hand. The D player then immediately swings up using his arm to clear the O players body and continue in his pass rush progression with a “rip” move.
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Coaching Inspiration
Hello Everyone,
This is Coach Stern again.
Thank you all again for the support on the website. I hope that your off-season training is coming along well. I know that most Division I colleges start Spring Football drill on or around April 8th. I personally will be visiting some of the major schools around my area including San Diego State University, University of San Diego, Sacramento State University and Fresno State University. I encourage everyone to contact the Universities and Junior Colleges in your area to visit their practices. You can pick up a lot of great information from these other coaches and the coaching staffs are usually very welcoming of other coaches visiting as long as you contact them before arriving.
Ive been thinking a lot about a certain piece of advice that I give to my players and I wanted to share it with everyone that visits the site. the saying goes
“If you are not Progressing you are Regressing. In the classroom, in the community as well as on the football field, improve yourself everyday in everything that you do.”
I tell my players this because in our sport it is very easy for the players to forget about the broad spectrum of life. Often players focus on becoming the best football players they can be and forget about other important aspects of life including school and family.
I try to hold myself to this as well. As a coach it is easy to focus only on winning football games, but it is also important to remember what you are ultimately there for which is guiding these young athletes through some important growing phases of their lives. It is important for us coaches to be not only a source of knowledge and guidance on the football field but also be there to provide support to our athletes and teach them the right way to conduct themselves as people.
I hope that this quote will be useful to you. It has been very useful to me in my career.
Please feel free to leave comments on the site or contact me via email if you have any questions.
Until the next time.
Be Well,
Coach Stern
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Coach Stern’s Playbook
Hello Everyone,
This is Coach Matt Stern. This is my first of what hopes to be a frequent blog posting by me to the Football Done Right audience.
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Secondly, I know that off-season conditioning programs have started and we are full steam ahead towards Spring Football 2009. I am very excited for this time of year because it provides coaches with a glance at what to expect from their team in the coming season. This time of year is a perfect time for coaches to expand their knowledge, network with other coaches and obtain new ideas for drills going into Spring Football.
I am excited to announce that we at Football Done Right have 5 special video collections that will be released within the month of April. These video series are full of ideas and drills that I will be using to improve my athletes going into the upcoming season. I have used these drills for years now and I have nothing but success with the results of integrating these drill progressions into our workouts. I will try and release some preview information for these videos to our email subscribers soon. If you haven’t signed up or confirmed your subscription to Football Done Right do it now so that you won’t miss out when the trailers are released.
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Tire Push/Pull Football Drill
Purpose:
The Tire Push/Pull drill is a combination drill that incorporates both conditioning and technique work. The Tire Push/Pull drill is used to aerobically build strength in an athletes entire body while developing strength in their Push/Pull and escape techniques from a block of an offensive player. I use repetitions of this drill daily to develop Push/Pull skills of my athletes.
Drill Set Up:
One standard car tire is needed for this drill. This drill is to be performed over a five yard area.
Drill:
Players position themselves in front of the tire. Player positions one hand on both sides of the tire and prepares themselves to push the tire with their arms and legs. At the coaches direction, player begins to push the tire forward, keeping their arms straight, running with their feet behind them to move the tire. The coach will then give the player the direction of “Right” or “Left”. When given the direction, the player will Push/Pull the tire in the corresponding direction and “Rip” off of the tire and continue to sprint for 5 yards. Then next player should position himself in the start position of the drill and continue the drill towards the start position of the first player.
Tags: coaching, defensive line, football done right, football drills, pull, push, tire
3 Cone Reaction Drill
Purpose:
The 3 Cone Reaction drill is an agility drill that builds a player’s change of direction speed while in movement. I use this drill as a conditioning drill to test my athlete’s focus and change of direction speed while they are on the move and fatigued. Players must be able to react and change direction at the speed of the game while on the field. The 3 cone reaction drill prepares them for such scenarios.
Drill Set Up:
4 cones are involved in this drill. The first cone is the start and finish cone and should be set up on a line at a given point. This is the cone that the player will be starting at and also returning to in between drill directions.
There will be 3 other cones set up 5-7 yards away from the start cone in a straight line going across from each other. These cones will be labeled cones 1, 2 and 3.
Drill:
Player will start at the start cone facing the 3 positioned cones in front of them. Coach will begin the drill by instructing the player to chop their feet in rapid succession, like the player is running while in place. The coach will then call out a number; either number 1, 2 or 3. Player will sprint to the corresponding cone, break their feet down, change direction and return to the start cone. Upon the player returning to the start cone the coach will give the player another number: 1, 2 or 3 and the player will, break down their feet, and sprint to the next number cone. The drill will continue with the coach calling out numbers and the player sprinting to the directed cone and returning to the start cone. The drill ends with the coach giving the direction to “break” the drill. When the player “breaks” the drill, the player finishes by sprinting through the start cone.
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