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Youth Flag Football Coaching 101
Use our tips below to make this season a success whether you have been roped into coaching your sons football league for the first time, or youve been coaching a few years and cant get your team to break their losing streak. You will no longer fear parents talking behind your back because a team full of talent cant win or because kids are quitting because they are bored and not learning the fundamentals. Our tips will get your team excited for practice and ready to play every game.
Practice Should Be Fun
Teach kids to enjoy the process whether it is the game itself or running drills at practice. Make practice fun and allow a few laughs when mistakes are made. Enthusiasm infects the whole team and keeps everyone wanting to play and participate.
A Positive Attitude is Important
Keep negative comments in check whether a player makes a bad play, you make a poor call or the other team isnt playing fairly. Things usually go wrong at the worst times during a game, but remember you can only control your attitude and your actions and not the bad things that happen at some point in the season. Your players are always watching you and will reflect your attitude and actions.
Understand the Game
How can your players learn the fundamentals and be the best they can be if you dont know the game well yourself? Before the season starts, learn all the ins and outs and the rules of the game. Spend time talking to more experienced coaches, reading websites, news stories and books, and watching professional football games on TV.
Importance of Character
think of their coaches as role models, so if you want your players to be driven and always do the right thing on and off the field, keep that mind. Making mistakes are part of human nature, so admit when you are wrong and show your players it is OK to do so. Keep control of your emotions and words, whether disputing a call with a ref or dealing with parent complaining their child is not playing enough.
Learn to Communicate Effectively
You can know everything there is to know about football drills, plays or the fundamentals but if you cant communicate them to your team you are in for a tough time. If you are explaining a play to a team and they dont get it right, YOU are explaining it wrong.
Communication Skills are Key
Football is arguably the most complicated and position-specific of all major sports, so it does take a while for a coach and players to understand all the rules of the game. Youth sports teaches self confidence, discipline and teamwork that kids will use for the rest of their lives so it is even more imperative to be a good role model. Make practice and the game fun so your team is always looking forward to playing!
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