Central Missouri’s Tackling Drills

With the increasing pressure that offenses are posing for defensive coaches, organizing practice to maximize benefits is vital. Covering everything and still improving fundamental skills is nearly impossible. The fundamentals unfortunately get shorted more often than not. I think that coaches do a tremendous job at adapting to this dilemma by combining skills into one drill. With that in mind I want to discuss three tackling drills that accomplish that exact purpose. Drill: Finish & Hit-up Sequence as Dynamic Flexibility Purpose: Maximize time by warming up using our Finish & Hit-up series. Everyone argues about the benefits of stretching as a warm up. A neutral ground seems to be a Dynamic routine (warming up and stretching while moving through range of motion). Combine that with finish sequence and we are getting reinforcement of our fundamentals of tackling as well. Since we have a