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Coaching the tackle to children

  • 14-05-2008 11:04am
    #1
    paulocon
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    Hi,

    I know some of you have coaching experience - just wondering if any of you have any thoughts on coaching the tackle to young children (6/7/8).

    Have had a couple of small sided games at the end of training - what I am finding is that the children often end up wrestling over the ball in an attempt to make a tackle.

    Pickups can also lead to wrestling due to some children struggling to pick the ball up - obviously, this is a matter of practicing the picking up at training.

    If anyone has any tips, ideas etc. for coaching the tackle to children, it would be appreciated..


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  • #2
    GAAman
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    Depending on the ages (i coached from 8 upwards) i used my own form of "tag football" whereby if the attacking player touches the ball with the palm of their hand them the attacking player gets possession of the ball (stops digs bein thrown towards the ball and subsequently the other players face) now this obviously slows the pace of the game down but at the start there were a few lads who werent afraid to be diggin like a boxing match so i had to put a stop to it

    It was only the lads from 10 up who i started on actual tackles i would start them by gettin them to try to push the ball from the crook of the other players arms

    With the younger lads and pickups i had a method of letting them decide themselves if they wanted to lift the ball properly or just grab it off the ground. But there would be another tag in place where the attacking player would have to palm the ball away (again stops digs and wrestling for the ball)

    A few of them played soccer so they were fairly adept at chipping the ball up to themselves

    Hope this ramblin helps :pac:


  • #3
    paulocon
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    Cheers GAAman - thanks for the advice.

    Good idea - suppose it's a case of slowly introducing the concept of tackling - we have a couple of children who can go in a bit heavy-handed but have cut that out - like I said, main reason for asking is that quite often, a pick up or loose ball becomes a wrestling match between 2 or more children.

    Think the main thing is to concentrate on the skills so the idea of 'tag tackling' is a very good one..


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