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How to Use the Plant & Go to Avoid Football Tackle

One of the easiest ways to avoid being tackled is to fool the defender by using his momentum to your advantage. You'll see in this free video how to change direction and cause the defender to miss.

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Keep on Ball for Football Interception

Knowing the opposing quarterback's tendencies can help when trying to get an interception. In this free video you'll learn that sometimes just being in the right place can lead to an easy interception.

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How to Protect the Ball in Football Tackle

The ball is the most important thing on the football field. In this free video Sean Hobson explains and demonstrates how to protect the ball.

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How to Time Your Jump for Interceptions in Football

When a pass is under thrown you want to try and get the ball at its highest point to have a greater chance for an interception. In this free video Sean Hobson explains the do's and don'ts of a jump ball.

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How to Hit & Spin to Avoid Football Tackle

By initiating contact first you send the defender of his balance. In this free video you'll see how doing so can allow you to spin out of a tackle for more yards.

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Keep Your Feet & Legs Moving to Avoid Football Tackle

One of the best ways to avoid losing yards and also run out of a tackle is by keeping your feet and legs moving. In this free video you'll see how to perform this move.

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Jump Underneath the Receiver's Route for Interceptions

The quickest way to get an interception is to jump the route before the ball gets to the receiver. This technique is demonstrated in this free video.

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How to Get a Tipped Ball Interception in Football

You never know what is going to happen during any given play on the field. By staying close to the play you could be in the right place at the right time for a tipped interception. This free video...

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Returning the Football After an Interception

It's already a big play for a defense when they get an interception, but you can still try to gain some more yards for your team after the pick is made. This technique is demonstrated in this free video.

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Follow Your Blockers to Avoid Football Tackle

You want to depend on the people who are on the field with you when trying to avoid being tackled. By following your teammates blocking you can gain more yards as shown in this free video.

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Keep Moving to Avoid Football Tackle

One of the easiest ways for a defender to make a tackle is on a sitting target. After catching the ball the receiver should turn up field as soon as they can, as shown in this video.

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How to Avoid Interference as a Cornerback

You don't want to hurt your team by trying to help your team with an interception. You have to avoid any pass interference call when trying to intercept a pass as explained in this free video.

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How to Read the Receiver & Not Get Beat in Football

When you are covering a receiver you want to make sure first that he doesn't beat you for a big play. In this free video Sean Hobson explains how to read the receiver to avoid him making a play.

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Read Blocks to Avoid Football Tackle

When a running back gets the ball he has an assignment he must follow and quickly. In this free clip you'll learn that following his blockers is just as important to avoid being tackled.

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Stay Low & Keep Your Balance to Avoid Football Tackle

When a running back takes the ball he has to be prepared to take a hit almost immediately. By keeping a low center a gravity and balance he can keep moving forward as shown in this free video.

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Keep Fighting to Avoid Football Tackle

The play is still alive until the referee blows the whistle. You always want to keep fighting and never stop until you know the play is dead. In this free video Sean Hobson tells you to never quit.

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Accelerate Through the Hit to Avoid Football Tackle

When running with the ball you want to initiate contact first with the defender. If you accelerate as you hit the defender you can keep moving and avoid being tackled, as shown in this free video.

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How to Run Between the Tackles in Football

Despite the emergence of the passing game, 95 percent of college and professional football coaches want to see their team turn to the running attack when they have a chance to put away the game. Tom...

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How to Build Speed for Football

When the NFL great Reggie Williams was asked his greatest football strengths, he simply replied, “Speed, strength, and the inability to register pain immediately.” If you ask any successful football...

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How to Perform a Crack Block in Football

As a receiver or a split end, it's absolutely crucial to learn how to perform the crack block. Not only does the crack block really seal the outside and allow the football to flow out into the flat,...

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How to Perform a Pancake Block in Football

The pancake block is a maneuver that isn't very popular with most football players. Defensive players hate the pancake bitterly, and will do almost anything within their power to avoid receiving a...

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How to Be an Offensive Lineman

Today's offensive linemen need to be versatile, smart, adaptive and swift on their feet. It takes time and hard work to achieve all of these, but even the offensive linemen that are not as strong as...

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How to Get Autographs at NFL Training Camps

Whether you are a full-time collector of sports memorabilia, looking for that special present for a friend, or simply looking for your favorite players, getting the autograph of an NFL player is...

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How to Run a Draw Play in Football

Football is about strength, power and dominating your opponent at the line of scrimmage. However, that is not all it's about. When played at a high level by players at the high school, college or...

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How to Block From the Tight End Position

It is one of the most important and versatile positions on the offensive side of the football. A great tight end is an asset to any offense. Some teams use their tight ends as another wide receiver...

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How to Protect a Quarterback's Blind Side

The basics of football will never change. Offenses come and go; defensive systems may be hot one year and forgotten the next. It may be a wide receiver's game one year and a running back's game the...

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How to Run the Football Without Fumbling

Running the ball is still a huge part of football, even if the spread offense has created huge inroads at both the college and high school levels. Running the football is a key part of the game plan...

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How to Attend the World's Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party

The world's largest outdoor cocktail party takes place each year on the last weekend in October in Jacksonville, Florida. Hundreds of thousands of college football fans descend on the city to celebrate...

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How to Understand Football Betting Options at a Casino

Gambling at the casino can be a fun way to spend a day. Placing a wager on a sporting event while at the casino, though, can be somewhat confusing. It's much different than betting your buddy five...

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How to Read Defenses as a Quarterback

Leading a football team from the quarterback position is not necessarily about having a gun of an arm or remarkable athleticism. Those attributes are a big advantage, but they hardly matter at all if...

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How to Shut Down a Wide Receiver

The best athletes and fastest players on the football field are usually found at the wide receiver spot. When your job is to cover the wideout and shut him down, you are usually fighting a very tough...

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How to Block Downfield as a Wide Receiver

Many pro football historians recognize Jerry Rice as the greatest wide receiver to ever play the game, and some even credit him as being the best football player ever. Rice was a brilliant receiver...

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How to Defeat Man-to-Man Coverage in Football

The passing game is the primary means of attack at nearly every level of football. The running game is important when it comes to short-yardage plays at or near the goalline, for running out the clock...

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How to Become a Top High School Recruit in Football

Becoming a top high school recruit in football used to only require having talent. These days, great football players are everywhere and college scholarships are tough to come by. If you want to get...

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How to Run a Good Route in Football

Every receiver from the high school level to the NFL has to run perfect routes to make great offensive plays. Each passing play run by a football team includes a series of routes that help the...

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How to Run Block

In the game of football, it is a tradition to start the practice season with some good basic shoulder popping blocking just to set the mood for the season. It is important to note for descriptive...

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How to Stop the Running Game in Football

The ground game is still a very important part of football, particularly in high school and college. While high-powered passing games get most of the attention thanks to innovative offenses such as the...

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How to Block a Field Goal

Nothing changes momentum in football more than a turnover. While a blocked field goal is not technically a turnover, it has the same impact. A team is lining up to put three points on the scoreboard,...

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How to Defeat Double Team Blocking

Football has evolved from a run-oriented game to one that is keyed by the pass. Move the ball through the air and stop your opponent from throwing the ball, and your team will have the advantage 90...

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How to Improve Accuracy When Passing a Football

A quarterback has to do a lot of things on the football field besides pass the ball. However, that is one of his top responsibilities, and if he does not throw the ball accurately, he cannot do his job...

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How to Drop into Coverage From the Linebacker Position

The linebacker position has grown increasingly more complicated in football. The first priority is plugging holes in the defensive line and stopping the running back. The second is blitzing the...

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How to Punish a Tackler as a Running Back

The highlight films often show the breakaway runs by the great running backs. Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, LaDainian Tomlinson and Adrian Peterson are among the backs, past and present, who earned a...

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How to Run the Football From the Wishbone Formation

There was a time in college football that the Wishbone Offense was considered unstoppable. With either two or three running backs behind the quarterback in the backfield, the offense basically told the...

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How to Play Free Safety

Playing free safety is one of the most important jobs on the field. It is the most instinctive of all the defensive positions and coaches are looking for players who truly understand the game and have...

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How to Be a Fair Fantasy Football Commissioner

Fantasy football is a sport that has grown significantly over the past decade. With more leagues forming, many have inexperienced fantasy football commissioners. Being a fantasy football commissioner...

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How to Drop Kick a Football

The drop kick is a seldom-used method of scoring in football. It involves a player kicking the football between the uprights after first bouncing it on the ground. Since the ball must bounce before...

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How to Perform a Chop Block in Football

The chop block is one of the most dangerous plays in all of football. There are actually two different types of chop blocks, both of them illegal. In one instance, an offensive player will use his...

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How to Kick a Football for an Onside Kick

An onside kick is used in football when the kicking team wants to retain possession of the ball after a kickoff. The football must travel at least ten yards before a member of the kicking team can...

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How to Attack the Football for Interceptions

When the ball is in the air you don't want to wait for it to get to you to make an interception. This free video explains that you have to get to the ball before the receiver to make the pick.

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Go For the Football & Not the Player as a Cornerback

When you are attempting to intercept a pass you can't knock the receiver out of the way to get to the ball. In this free video you'll see that you have to go for the ball first and not go through the...

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