Duck Creek Pop Warner Football

Practice Suggestions

Practice 1

• Purpose: Get acquainted, learn basic concepts and drills
  • Team meeting introduce coaches, parents and players
  • Set expectations
    • Parental involvement and choose team parents
    • Teach  football skills in safe controlled atmosphere
    • Teach competing  through sportsmanship
  • Skill Drills start to determine skills (helmets no pads)
    • 20 dash
    • Throwing/receiving drills
    • Quarterback drills
    • Rushing drills
    • Basic Blocking and Tackling Drills

Practice 2

• Purpose : Basic Offensive (helmets and shorts)
  • Teach positions of offense
    • Names of positions ( guard, tackle, center)
    • Responsibly of position
    • Holes on the line
    • Skill drills
    • Basic blocking drills

Practice 3

• Purpose: Basic Defensive (helmets shorts)
  • Teach positions on defense
    • Names of positions ( guard, tackle, center)
    • Responsibly of position
    • Holes on the line
    • Skill drills
    • Basic tackling skills

Practice 4    (helmets pads shorts no contact)

• Purpose : Begin position training Offense/ Defense
  • Set up offense
    • Walk through plays
    • Basic blocking
  • Set up defensive schemes
    • Walk through plays
    • Basic tackling

Practice 5    (full pads contact allowed)

Start simple and build each practice.
Be sure to keep children busy.
Make sure they bring water.