The Challenges of Teaching Football Speed

by Dale Baskett
Football Speed Specialist
American Football Monthly March 2012 Issue Online

The first step toward teaching football speed is dealing with velocity and angles that change rapidly. Secondly, you must provide a progressive training system that is relative to speed and movement physically, mentally, and technically. The nature of the game provides various challenges to movement speed, angle changes, frequency changes, and rapid acceleration. Your teaching must fit these practicums because, unlike track sprinting, the technical application for football speed is not all li...Login to Read More

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