{"id":21008,"date":"2024-07-29T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T23:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/?p=21008"},"modified":"2024-07-30T08:45:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T14:45:57","slug":"tenacious-tackling-drills-and-instruction-for-taking-your-team-tackling-to-the-next-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.championshipproductions.com\/news\/2024\/07\/29\/tenacious-tackling-drills-and-instruction-for-taking-your-team-tackling-to-the-next-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious Tackling: Drills and Instruction to Take Your Team Tackling to the Next Level"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

These days, it\u2019s getting tougher for coaches to accomplish everything they need to get done with their football teams during preseason practices and training camp. With strict limits on practice days, the number of full-contact practices allowed, scheme installs, conditioning, putting together special teams and skill development by position \u2013 it\u2019s often difficult to focus on any one thing as a priority over another. Football coaches just have a lot to accomplish and not enough time to do it.

Tackling, however, is often one of those critical components common to every team that coaches cannot let slip through the cracks of a chock-full day of practice in July and August.

No matter how brilliant your defensive scheme or how thorough the scouting report is on an opponent, if your defenders suffer from the dreaded disease of poor tackling, you\u2019re going to have a tough time getting opposing offenses off the field. Inevitably, sloppy tackling results in losing the time-of-possession battle, starting with poor field-position on a regular basis, and worst of all, giving up too many points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With an emphasis on player safety and a philosophical change in the way that football coaches approach tackling \u2013 taking good pursuit angles, instilling discipline into defenders and emphasizing proper form-tackling over making \u2018the big hit\u2019 \u2013 today\u2019s teaching techniques as it pertains to tackling are better than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Championship Productions<\/em> offers football coaches at all levels a wide array of coaching videos that cover the art of tackling and different teaching techniques to improve the way coaches teach and practice tackling.

A category search of \u2018Tackling\u2019 <\/strong>on ChampionshipProductions.com\u2019<\/a>s search tool at the top of the football page reveals hundreds of coaching videos<\/a><\/strong> that includes in-depth, instructional information on improving your defensive approach to tackling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below shows an informative look at some of these highly valuable tackling videos and provides informative video clips to help arm you with good practice drills, coaching pointers and philosophical defensive insights to improve your team\u2019s ability to tackle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Shoulder Leverage Tackling Method by Mike Alexander<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Often called \u2018Hawk Tackling,\u2019 a tackling technique famously used and promoted by former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, in this video, Mike Alexander shows you the ins and outs of his Shoulder Leverage Tackling Method<\/em> \u2013  and provides useful drills, teaching points and a full explanation on why this game-tested approach to tackling works especially well for his team and the type of players he has on his roster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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