Football Blocking Lesson - Part 1

Clubhouse Gas Casey: There’s a lot more to blocking thank just lining up and hitting the guy in front of you and that actually can be broken down pretty scientifically in fact there’s three major types of blocking and today we’re going to go over those three types so that you can teach your guys a few easy steps to help them increase your running backs yards for caring so stay tuned today for Clubhouse Gas. Children: Good morning Clubhouse Gas from Top Hat! Yehey! Casey: Three major types of blocks the first block is a drive block second block is a reach block and the third block is a down block. Now there’s not that much difference in them and once you get the foundation and once you teach your kids the foundation of the drive block. The first block we’re going to work on today, the other two will come to them a lot easier the only thing is you have to work on this every single day. Off with the line coaches this should be the first thing you do everyday. Now you’re not going to do it with a sled but I’ve got a little too old and little too big for me to line up and knock heads with anybody unfortunately so today I’ll be using this sled here to work on it. Now the first thing to do obviously is getting a good stance. That’s your foundation for anything you know wide feet, shoulder width apart low to the ground, head up, straight back, we know how to get in this stance. Just do this for me alright. Don’t have your kid with the chicken wing. When I say chicken wing if I can turn to the side here maybe you can see. Let me turn this way. I see a lot of guys here with their arm out here and the chicken wing is kind of flapping don’t do this, alright. Another problem I have when I see young teams blocking. I see a lot of this. This is old school this is really, really, really old school. They passed the rule like 20 years ago that allows you to block with your hands. Allow your kids to block with their hands. First off it doesn’t hurt them as much second off it delivers a bigger blow so what I want you to do is when your kid gets in a stance I want him to have his hand, elbow tucked in, hand over here because when your hand is here when drive off they can deliver a punch with the palms in their hands which is really, really hard. Alright so you are going to line your kids up across the dummy or across from whoever, let’s start with the dummy. Turn my height around, my dad would tell me he can’t tell if I’m coming of going so I’m sure I’ll get a comment from that, alright. We’re going to get in our stance and then we’re going to back him up. Alright have him pull their elbow back so you have both elbow on your knees like you would get in your normal stance but without your hand the ground. This is how we’re going to learn how to drive block, alright. They key to drive blocking is to step, which is firing off the ball and have your face in the numbers and deliver the blow with the hands all at the same time. If you can teach your kid that right there, hit with the face, hit with the palms of the hands and step in all in one move there are very few defensive tackles that will be able to do anything with an 11 year old, alright so again we’re getting them in our stance and we’re just going to move in to here because we’re going to break it down in the steps and we’re just going to have him do this. Alright, put him into stance back him up. Step number two to the drive block. Once you get to this point, once you’re here that’s all in one step. You are going to bring your second leg and start to role your tail, right. So your second leg comes up, your tail rolling. When they roll their tail in it’s going to stand them up, but if their low enough and their underneath the numbers it’s going to put this guy on his back wheels and your driving him backwards. That’s the driveline. Female: Please join us again tomorrow for the exiting conclusion of the Casey Bass blocking trifecta, actually it was not our intention for this a two part show but as it turns out Casey is his most long winded gas.