Learn about Footwork Progression Drills

Football Done Right Efficient, Effective, Coaching Methods and Strategies Hello and welcome to Football Done Right an interactive coaching website done for coaches by coaches. My name is Coach Matt Stern today we’re going to talk about Footwork Progression. I’ll start off by individually showing the drills and then at the very end we’ll piece them all together to show the flow and progression of how this drill is actually used. Player one will start off in front of the four-bag set up. These bags are set up one yard apart from each other so it will flow through. Player one is going to start off with a single step in between each bag and finish off by sprinting five yards. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Single step, good, flow it through. Now player one wants to keep his body nice and upright going through a run motion flowing through and then when he finishes of the last bag it will explode and sprint through five yards. Player one will reset. He’ll be facing me. He’s going to lateral step placing two feet in between each bag. When he finishes of the last bag, he’s going to explode through 5 yards. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Body upright and explode, good, good, good. Excellent! Player one will reset and we’re going through a punch drill. Punch drill is used for cut block when players come in low towards your feet. We want to get our hands down and feet back punching each bag. Now as he explodes off the third bag he’s going to explode forward dipping his inside shoulder and ripping through five yards. I’m going to position the cone so this player knows where to explode through. In punch drill, player one is going to keep his feet shoulder width apart driving his hands down into the bag. He’s going to punch one bag, two bag, three bags. Tip his inside shoulder and finish through five yards. Player one ready, set, go. [Player one demonstrating] Good feet working, independently drive it down, break it through, excellent. Excellent job! Now we’ll show the progression as one whole. Player one will single step. When he finishes off the fourth bag, he’s going to change direction lateral step. When it gets down here he’s going to change direction, he’s going to punch, punch, punch and finish through five. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Single step lateral steps, punch, punch, punch; get out, excellent, excellent job! In part two of the footwork progression player one is going to double step placing two feet in between each bag, explode off the last bag sprinting through five yards. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Double step, double step, excellent. Player one kept his body nice and upright elbows bent at 90 degrees bringing his hand ear to pocket got to develop quick feet. Next drill, player one will hop, he’s going to keep his feet shoulder width apart. He’s going to have a bend in his knee and his hip he’s going to explode driving his hands up in the air hoping to get in the passing lanes— quarter back passing lanes. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Good, you want to stress body control here, good, good! The next drill player one is going to be going through cut block progression. Cut blocking is something the offenses do to get players on the ground to get run lanes. Player one is going to bring his hands down, get his feet back going to a sprawling motion. He’s going to sprawl shuffle, sprawl shuffle, sprawl shuffle. Dip and rip and splint through 5 yards. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Sprawl shuffle, sprawl shuffle, feet back, explode, run, run, run. Excellent, excellent! He’s going to come down, double stepping through each bag. He’s going to settle his feet. Change direction hop through three bags and then he’s going to— off the last bag he’s going to cut block drill. Hands down, feet back full sprawl shuffle, full sprawl shuffle. Off the third bag he’s going to explode and sprint through five yards. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Double step, double step, double step, hop, body control, head up, hands up, head up and down. Cut block, down, cut block, dip and rip. There you go, excellent! Next in the progression player one is going to just sprint and back pedal. What we want to stress here is change of direction so he wants to explode out of the sprint break down his feet and settle in to his back pedal. When he gets out of his back pedal at the end of the bag, he wants to explode through a sprint. He’s going to continue to do the progression through the bags and explode through 5 yards off the last bag. Player one ready, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Chest is up changing direction of your feet, changing direction of your feet and exploding off the back. Next drill player one is going to shuffle, shuffle, through the bags. We call this drill shuffle, shuffle. He’s going to have his feet starting off shoulder width apart. He’s going to move laterally through the bags consistently breaking down his feet and changing direction. We never want to bring our feet together. We want to chop our feet consistently and change direction. I stress in this drill we want to chop our feet. We don’t want to stop them, so chop them don’t step them. Player one ready, off the last bag you will explode and sprint through 5 yards, set, go! [Player one demonstrating] Good change direction, change direction, change direction, explode. Now we’re going to put the entire progression together. Player one is going to sprint back pedal through the bags. When he gets to the end bag he’s going to change direction chop his feet and continue right into a shuffle. He’s going to shuffle through the bags, again, feet working independently. When he gets to the last bag he’s going to explode and sprint through five yards. Player one ready, set, go! Good. Shuffle, shuffle, chop them don’t stop. There you go through and do a shuffle and do a shuffle off the last bag sprint excellent! Thanks for viewing today, Again my name is Coach Matt Stern for Football Done Right for more information on this drill and drills just like this visit our website at www.footballdoneright.com or you can email me at info@footballdoneright.com.