Just wanted to put this up here, that Calgary is having a safe contact clinic on the 12th of February. This is pretty crucial because all coaches need to have this certification by April of 2017 if they want to continue to coaching.
Head Coaches and coordinators need to pretty much have it in place for this season.
I won't be doing the second days position segments because I already have RB LB and DL certifications. I was hoping that they would have the ones that I'm missing which is receivers and QBs.
But I'll be at the Friday one if any of you are going.
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So this was a lot better than I expected it to be. There were some decent drills. The different facilitators contradicting each other was pretty funny...
Its certainly a change in terms of the actual tackling part of it.
I was talking to other coaches there and we talked about when we played, and the coaching advice for tackling was leave a smoking hole, make him blow snot bubbles. All of that.
While the emphasis certainly seems on front to front body position on the tackles, I need to watch more on the angle tackling because it just seems to be a lot of aligator arms.
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I wish they would shown some a couple videos of this tackle being executed at full speed prior to the drills circuit. As it stands now I am envisioning a lot of kids getting steamrolled as they try and execute a shimmy (why the strange verbiage Football Canada?) tackle.
I have this feeling that offensive numbers will go way up this year in amateur football as players try to figure this out and coaches try to figure out how to teach it.
What they showed isn't that much different from what I've been teaching except the point of contact has been changed to chest first.
Its going to be incredibly hard going against running backs who are going through low, or a running back that is good at dropping the shoulder just before contact.
Yeah I did notice on the angle/shimmy that they didn't really show how the whole tackle is supposed to work.
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The chest first point of contact is the big change, otherwise this is pretty much the same as the way most programs these days have been teaching to tackle (that I'm familiar with). We also started introducing a rugby tackle to keep the head completely out of the tackle this past year and it worked very well too.
I totally agree with Football Canada looking to implement a country wide system and training program
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