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Texas Swing; Sweep, Blocking Tackling Youth Football Drill

By on May 8, 2015

 

http://coachparker.org/2015/04/01/texas-swing-sweep-blocking-tackling-youth-football-drill/I’ve been playing and coaching football for a very long time now. Plus I read a ton of football coaching books so I am not easily surprised by a new drill.  I was pleasantly surprised Monday night when one of my assistant coaches, Garvin Fouts, set up the Swing Drill.  He and his former team, the KYA Knights, have been using this drill to teach their running backs to open field block, running backs to use their blockers and tacklers to fight off blockers and find the running back in traffic.

Our players really loved this drill.  It’s a combo of the old helmet to helmet tackling drill and a contain drill. Two of my favorite drills.

As you can see from the graphic, the drill has two groups; Offense and Defense.  We had our starting backfield and TEs run the offensive group and subbed them over on defense now and then to get in some tackling. We really were focused on our running backs blocking on Monday night’s practice.

Here’s how the Texas Swing Sweep Blocking and Tackling Drill works:

Coach Garvin says this drill really helped them perfect open field blocking on sweeps and improve tackling in traffic. We will be adding this drill to our hitting practices. See more…

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