Scrimmage Schedule and Results:

Last night we went to Lincoln to scrimmage a very fast and athletic inner-city team from a well respected, well established and well organized youth football organization. As many of you know I coach two teams this was my age 10-11 team, my younger team was on its own last night.

This organization does not line up with us age wise, so we chose to play their age 11-12 team.
This is how we organized the scrimmage and how we did:

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Even as a High School player who loved to block, the reach block was very difficult for me or my team mates to execute, we hated it. You will find the same is true for your youth football players. Why do you think the technique is taught so the offensive player gains OUTSIDE leverage on the defender by swinging the offensive players hips to the outside? Why not have a blocking scheme that allows your players this outside leverage and angle every play without having to take an outside drop step and without having to have very quick feet and hips swung into the proper position?

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