3 Cone Reaction Drill

Football Done Right Efficient, Effective Coaching Methods and Strategies Hi and Welcome to Football Done Right an interactive coaching website done for coaches by coaches. My name is Coach Matt Stern and today we’re going to be going over a three cone drill used for changing direction and reaction in developing quickness and agility in our athletes. Now player one and player two positioned at the center cone. I have three cones in front of him labeled cone one, cone two and cone three. At my signal player one, getting to start to chop his feet, I’m going to be yelling out numbers one, two, or three. When I yell at a number players get a sprint to that corresponding cone, break his feet down change direction and go right back to the start cone. I’ll call out numbers and get him to react spraying to each cone individually and always returning to the start cone. Again, this drill is good for speed, agility and changing direction of an athlete. On my queue player one will start to chop his feet. Player one ready, set, one! Two! Three! One! Three! At the breakout player will go from the corresponding cone of the number that I called out and sprint through the start cone. Player two will continue through now. Player two ready, three! One! Two! Get up; get up run, run, run. Two! Three! One! One! Breakout sprint, sprint, good, as you can see players continually sprinting breaking down their feet dropping pad level and changing directions and continuing the sprint. This is a very easy drill to do during conditioning period, during agility period to develop player’s foot speed, quickness, change of direction and reaction. For info on this drill and more drills like this please visit our website at www.footballdoneright.com or feel free to email me at info@footballdoneright.com and thanks for watching.