Create solid skill development for your players through USA Football’s Youth Tackle Certification. This year, there are several enhancements designed to make a positive impact on your football team. Focused on making you a better coach for your players, these resources feature blocking, defeating blocks, and tackling techniques that improve performance and make the game safer.
Enhance fundamental skills for blocking and defeating blocks.
What you’ll learn:
Master the coaching methodology behind a safer and better way to tackle with Rocky Seto.
What you’ll learn:
Learn about the self-coaching tool SPPAAT and the ability to identify risky techniques on the gridiron.
What you’ll learn:
“This is a technique sport, and the technique they’re teaching at USA Football is huge … I can tell you everything my youth coach taught me to this day, so it’s so important that our youth coaches teach the right things, teach the proper fundamentals.”
Andy Reid, Head Coach, Kansas City Chiefs
Education is the first step in concussion awareness and player protection.
Targeted instruction puts the emphasis on prevention, recognition and basic treatment of athletes with best practices for heat and hydration safety at all levels.
Teams learn how to put procedures in place to quickly react in the case of cardiac events — the No. 1 cause of death for children and teens during exercise – with instruction driven by the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center.
Equipment that doesn’t fit or isn’t worn right can increase the risk of injury. That’s why every coach gets guidance in how to properly fit helmets and shoulder pads.
Learn the roles of coaches, the keys to communication and how to plan practices for skill development.