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Tips On Speaking To Your Team

“O.K. … Listen Up! I said Listen Up…Take a knee and listen UP! You guys shut up….. take a lap!” author unknown

Perhaps you know who the author above is because you have said those exact words to your team in the past. Today’s message is short and sweet and it will help you communicate properly with your team. Getting twenty five kids to pay attention at once is a pretty good trick. Here are a few tips to getting a groups attention and keeping it.

Take a Knee – Have the players take a knee to address the whole group. Anyone that does not kneel is spacing out. Tell the group to raise their hand high above their head if they can hear you. Anyone that doesn’t raise their hand is spacing out. Start your message with the guy’s name that didn’t raise his hand…. ” Luke…. The most important thing about tackling is….” Use three or four other player names during the message. Look for guys that are not making eye contact. Ask questions when you are done. “Billy… what is the most important thing about tackling?” If they know you will ask questions every time, they are more likely to pay attention. These are a few tips I use to make sure that I only have to say things once and that my guys are taking in as much as possible. Have fun and happy coaching!

Have a great season,

Coach Saunders

Arena football is an advanced version of the well known American football. There is an interesting story behind the birth of Arena football. It is said that, its founder and the former Executive of the United State Football League, James F. Foster, jotted down the basic structure of this game on the backside of a manila envelop, while watching a live indoor soccer game; in the year 1981. He worked on field designs, rules and regulations and equipments for the next five years. Afterwards, he organized a small league in Chicago, to test the response of the sports market as well as the people. From the year 1986, the game took its present form and it is getting popular day by day.

Rules of Arena Football

The first official arena football game was played between ‘Miami Vise’ and ‘Chicago Politicians’, on 27th February 1987. The rules of arena football have been progressively devised and changed since then.

Arena Football Field
Arena football is an exclusive indoor game, played in the arenas designed especially for ice hockey and basketball players. The field surface is designed as per the standards set by National Hockey League’s hockey rink. The width of the arena football field is 85 feet and length, 200 feet. The distance between the end line and the goal line (end zone) is 8 yards. The shape of the end zones differ depending on the venue of the match. They are sometimes rectangular like a basketball court or curved like a hockey rink. The sideline barriers are heavily padded with padding laid over the hockey dasher boards. The crossbar is 15 feet above the playing surface and the goalpost verticals are 9 feet. Stretched rebound nets on either sides of the goalposts, helps finding any missed field goals. The ball is only assumed live when it is bounced off these nets. The whole goal side and the goal frame is cable suspended with the help of rafters.

Players and Formations
There is 24 players roster for each team, twenty players are active and four players remain inactive. Eight players can play at a single time. In the year 2007, the rules were modified, but before that, the players used to play both defense and offense (except for the quarterback, an offensive specialist, two defensive specialists and a kicker).

Four players must be present at the line of scrimmage at the time of snap. At the time of snap, one of the line men (offensive team member), must declare himself as a TE (Tight End). One offensive player can move forward at the time of snap. At the start of the snap, three defensive players must be in a three or four point stance. Amongst them, two defenders serve as linebackers, one of them usually starts blitzing from the side of the opposite line, of the Tight End of the opposition. The other linebacker moves from one sideline to the other within five yards near the line of scrimmage and drops the ball at the time of quarterback pump fakes.

Play Times
Each half time lasts for fifteen minutes, four quarters, with 35 minutes play clock, which starts at the end of every previous play. The clock stops at the out of bound plays, sacks or incomplete passes, injury time, penalties or timeouts; that too only at the last minute of each half time. There is only one minute warning. The clock stops also for any change in possession, until the ready mark. If the touchdown scoring time and quarter end time is exactly the same, then one ultimate conversion is attempted. During the final minute of the final quarter, the clock stops if the offensive team fails to lead and advances the ball past the line of scrimmage. Each overtime period is of fifteen minutes, where each team gets one scoring possession, after which, whichever team is leading in points, obviously wins. In case of a tie, a ‘sudden death’ or tiebreaker round of ten minutes is played to decide the winner.

Ball Movements
Pretty usual, the ball is kicked off the goal line. The team having the ball is given four downs to cover ten yards. Punting (hitting the ball, without it touching the ground) is not allowed, as the field is too small to for it. Receiver who jumps to catch the pass, has to get one foot down on the ground, same as the College football. Balls that are bounced off the padded sidelines and passes the rebound nets are called as live. After 2006, the end lines were started to be counted as live. The defending team has to return the attempted field goals, that bounce off the rebound nets.

Scoring Method
Scoring is done by the same method as that of the National Football League, only with an added ‘drop kick’. Drop kick is worth four points during normal play and two points during post-touchdown conversion. Extra points and turnovers are blocked at attempted two point conversion.

Arena Football League

Arena football league was formed in the year 1987, named Arena Football Indoor League. At first, there were four inaugural arena football teams namely, Chicago Bruisers, Washington Commandos, Denver Dynamite and Pittsburgh Gladiators. The matches were held at famous ‘Arena Bowl I’, for six seasons. In the year 1990 Mr. Foster was awarded the patent for arena football and arena football league. There were many ups and downs in the team formations as well as in the number of participating teams.

The new millennium brought many hopes, as well as fame to the game of arena football. The current league size is fifteen teams, with the teams divided into four different zones namely, central, eastern, western and southern. The AFL had the largest number of teams i-e, nineteen in the year 2006. But in the year 2009, the league had plans to cancel the season, in order to improve its economical condition. ‘Orlando Predators’, ‘Dallas Desperados’, ‘Colorado Crush’ etc, are some of the famous Arena football teams.

Arena football rules are very easy to understand, especially if you are a fan of American football. Besides the above mentioned rules, all the other rules are just like the rules of American football. Getting acquainted with the rules of arena football, watching more and more matches and actually practicing the game on the field will certainly make you master of the game!

The NFL has done a great job of branding that tag line into the psyche of the American public even the occasional sports fan has heard that infamous line shouted in bar rooms, restaurants and living rooms across the country. This is why it immediately came to mind after receiving a targeted email from a member of an organization called "Color of Change". The email was detailing the bias of Fox TV and its rightwing platform that allows individuals like Glenn Beck unlimited access to the airwaves and a captive influential audience, the organization was encouraging everyone including businesses to launch a boycott of Fox TV programming, by simply not tuning into the station. My initial reaction was what a good idea, especially since Fox does not have the best reputation of quality programming featuring or targeted towards people of color.

I wrote back to the organization expressing my thoughts of their initiative, but I cautioned them that this mission won't be difficult for many people of color during the week due to the above mentioned reason, however the fall equinox is upon us and that signals the start of football season and Fox Sports is a major carrier of NFL games, this is where the challenge of the boycott will be difficult. To put it bluntly people of color are and will tune in on Sundays to watch the games, therefore giving Fox a tremendous ground swell in ratings, therefore nullifying the effectiveness of the boycott, unless the organization can effectively reach , educate and inform the public of its mission even so that might be enough. Let me confess and say it will be a challenge for me not to press the buttons on the remote that is designated to the Fox channel in my area; I'm a huge pro football fan.
Coincidentally as this campaign is starting, across my laptop came news of a recent blowup in the NFL involving the legendary football great Jim Brown and his role or lack thereof within the Cleveland Browns organization, now that Mike Holmgren was brought in to make changes. You have to wonder what the players many of them African-American must feel or think about these recent events or do they even care? after all this is their job and they have families to feed, cars , houses and bling to acquire, for some it may be a case of leaving the political and social agenda's to others, why rock the boat. As a passionate fan, I am left in a quandary, one side of me strongly supports the boycott, not because I am a liberal or democrat, (I happen to be an independent) but I do feel that Fox has served as an instigator fanning the flames of bigotry and instilling fear which has led to an increase of racial tensions in the country, and the level of disrespect for Jim Brown does not sit well, though I do not have all of the details of the meeting between the two. On the other side the love of football coupled with my understanding of the First Amendment which guarantees an individual the right to freely express their opinions are putting up a fierce battle. A decision will have to be made soon, as I sit in my favorite spot on the couch armed with the remote in hand accompanied with an assortment of snack foods. Alas what's a person to do?

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AP All American Team Football Alabama and the SEC Top the First Team All American List

The Associated Press announced its annual All-American teams today. The Southeastern Conference had the most players named to the first All American team with 11, including six Alabama players. Heisman winner Mark Ingram was a unanimous first-team selection, as was linebacker Rolando McClain. Defensive tackle Terrence “Mount” Cody was selected for the second consecutive season. Cornerback Javier Arenas, guard Michael Johnson and kicker Leigh Tiffin rounded out the list of Crimson Tide players who were first-teamers.
 
Also included from the SEC on the first team were: Tennessee’s safety Eric Berry, South Carolina linebacker Eric Norwood, Georgia punter Drew Butler. Florida, who had six players make the three All American teams, touted cornerback Joe Haden and tight end Aaron Hernandez as first-teamers as well.

How did the rest of the Heisman contenders fare? Stanford running back Toby Gerhart, the Heisman runner-up, and Nebraska defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who finished fourth in Heisman voting, were also unanimous first-team All-America selections. Texas quarterback Colt McCoy was the All-American quarterback, selected to the first team by the AP college football poll voters. Florida quarterback Tim Tebow was a second-team selection (Boise State’s Kellen Moore was the third-team selection at quarterback). The Big 12 was the conference runner-up for first team selections with seven. Amongst that seven were three of the five offensive linemen — Oklahoma State’s Russell Okung and Oklahoma’s Trent Williams and Baylor’s J.D. Walton at center. Rounding out the offensive line was Idaho guard Mike Iuapti. Notre Dame’s Golden Tate (perfect name for a Notre Dame player) and Texas’ Jordan Shipley were the first team wide receivers. Explosive Clemson running back C.J. Spiller was named to the first team as an all-purpose player. The Horned Frogs (TCU) defense that I spoke so eloquently about in an earlier article had only one representative: first team defensive end Jerry Hughes. Georgia Tech’s Derrick Morgan joined him at defensive end on the first team. The Big Ten had only one player on the first team and that was Michigan State linebacker Greg Jones. The All American selections proved to be a family affair as well. Florida’s twin brother offensive linemen, Mike and Maurkice Pouncey, were selected to the second team; Oregon State receiver James Rodgers made the second team as an all-purpose player while his brother, Jacquizz, was a third-team pick at running back. For the complete list of all three All American teams, go to: Rivals.com

It had some how never occurred that Martin Johnson was capable of lying under a duvet and watching telly late at night, or even that he had ever been a young boy, but this is what he insists he used to do – and used to be – when the Super Bowl was first broadcast over here in the early 1980s. Funny things happen to Johnson when it comes to American football.

People can see this for themselves tonight when he sits on ITV’s panel of experts for Super Bowl XXXIX, holding forth about the sport that has become his passion over the past 20 years. And the chances are he will be the biggest expert in the studio. He will certainly match the others for sheer enthusiasm and boyish excitement.

Which is a little disconcerting. The Johnno that rugby hacks have come to know and love is not like this. He hates talking. At press conferences over the years, his body language has basically dared anyone to ask him a question. And coming away with your dignity intact when you have asked him one – indeed getting anything from him at all – has evolved into a kind of game between him and the hacks. It’s one we shall miss come the end of this season when he finally retires from rugby.

It turns out, though, that we have been talking about the wrong sport. If only anyone had asked him which picks he thought his beloved San Francisco 49ers would take in the NFL draft, those press conferences might have gone with a swing. Indeed, this interview ends only because my taxi has been waiting for half an hour and because the train waits for no man. At the end of it, on a bit of a roll, Johnson is last seen heading for the hotel reception, no doubt to ask the receptionist if she reckons the Philadelphia Eagles stand a chance against the New England Patriots tonight.

Poor old rugby might feel jealous that one of her greatest players, to whom she has given the best years of her life, was in love with another sport, but Johnson has reassuring words. ‘I’d far prefer to play rugby,’ he vows, caressing the aggrieved sport’s brow. ‘I think it’s a better game to play. Christ, I’ve just played 10 years for England and 16 in first-class rugby. So there isn’t an issue there.’

All the same, when the subject of his impending date with the Super Bowl is first breached, he lets fly an involuntary cheer of delight.

Johnson’s interest in the game is purely as a fan. He did play as a teenager for the youth team of the Leicester Panthers, his local American football team, but he didn’t consider taking it any further. ‘I’d never be quick enough. In our sport, you try to get good rugby players and make them into athletes. In the NFL they’ve got some good athletes who they make into players. How quick you do the 40 [run 40 yards] is the big thing. “What? He does the 40 in 4.2? He’s that quick?” They love their stats.’

But, for all their stats, they have set an example to rugby for what a spectator sport can do for its audience. The virtues of athleticism, collision and occasion are ones that the union code is only now properly embracing. ‘In the early 1980s, watching Rugby Special versus watching the American football was a no-brainer, wasn’t it? American football was from another planet. All these guys running around in helmets, smashing each other.

‘Whereas in an English club game in the early 1980s you’ve got guys slogging around a muddy pitch somewhere in January in front of 1200 spectators. In terms of a spectacle there wasn’t a comparison. And in rugby if anything untoward happened on the field they brushed it under the carpet. You watch American football – if someone got hit they would replay it five times. So when I went to play American football it was great training, because we used to learn about tackling and hitting, and they got us to lift weights. The coaching was intense. They’d get American guys over to play for the senior team and they used to coach us. They have a real culture of coaching over there.’

Again, lest rugby should feel its nose out of joint at all this eulogy for another sport, Johnson is realistic and English enough to know that there is a lot to love about the homelier qualities of his own sport. He does not think that it was American football that dragged rugby into the twentieth century, rather that rugby just had to change. And, however much he might have benefited from his time playing American football, he appreciates the loyalty in rugby.

‘There are lots of things about NFL that aren’t particularly nice. It’s a very cut-throat industry. But rugby has lots of the nice things of amateurism about it. The teams are still very much teams. It’s difficult to get players to change clubs because it’s, “Well, I’ll miss the lads.” And we should try to hold on to that. Because it will change.’

Cut-throat it may be, but American football operates a welfare policy that is extraordinary in the world’s most aggressive free- market economy. Every season, the team who finish with the worst record in the NFL, which is a competition without relegation, have the first pick of the talent from college football; the team with the second-worst record, the second pick; and so on. There is also a salary cap to keep things further in order. The design is to ensure that the League remains competitive from top to bottom. The 32 owners of the teams together own the NFL and are answerable to no other organisation.

There are surely lessons here for football in this country, and also for rugby. In rugby there is at least a salary cap, although there is much talk of raising it, and no doubt further down the line there will be talk of abolishing it altogether. Johnson’s own team, Leicester, if they move to the Walkers Stadium and remove one of the restrictions keeping them in check, namely the size of their current stadium, would be itching to use the resultant proceeds on assembling a better squad than everyone else.

‘We have the biggest average gate and I think we turn over £12 or £13 million,’ he says, ‘but you need someone to play, don’t you? There’s no point in us dominating and spending the money, because that would just lead to what happened in the early days of professionalism with everyone struggling to keep up with a few benefactors. You need stability, which we have in the Premiership now. There was a lot of silliness going around in the late 1990s and it was never going to be sustained.’

But, if there’s competitiveness in the top flight of English rugby now, what about the international game? Wouldn’t a competitive USA improve the World Cup? Could the rugby world compete with a competitive USA? If America is packed full of people bigger, faster and more powerful than Martin Johnson, it would surely all be over for the rest of us, should that talent ever become mobilised.

‘There are a lot of guys who come out of high-school football who don’t go on to college, and college guys who don’t make it to the NFL – and they never play again. What happens to them all? Rugby would have to get a foothold in American sport. But when I went there in 2001 [to train with the 49ers, courtesy of Observer Sport Monthly ] they were interested in me, and the first thing they’d all say was, “Jesus, you guys do that without any pads or helmets on.” But rugby hasn’t yet got into every household in this country, let alone over there. There are still millions here who’ll say, “I watched the World Cup final. Really good. Didn’t understand all of it.” If the Rugby World Cup ever took a huge gamble and went to America, it would be interesting to see what they could do with it. It’s over quicker, apart from anything else. It’s fairly spectacular. But you’d be fighting all the tradition. They watch football, baseball, basketball and ice hockey.’

If Johnson had his way, he also would watch as much American football as he could, but unfortunately his wife, Kay, doesn’t like it, and there is three-year-old Molly to attend to as well. His eyes then go dewy as he reels off all the American football that a fan could watch on television with a wife more sympathetic to it.

Nevertheless, he is certain that he will be spending some of his time post-retirement in America watching it. ‘I’ve never seen a regular-season game in the NFL, because by the time I had the money to do it I didn’t have the time. I’ll definitely go over for a week. If you timed it nicely, you could get in six games, although it would obviously be at the expense of talking to anyone in your family. You’ve got Saturday afternoon college football; Sunday night there’s pro football; Monday night_.’

He goes on like that for a while, and there are many other astonishing displays of American football expertise throughout our conversation. When we part he says with more concern than is seemly in a world champion: ‘Don’t make me out to be a geek.’

Well, he wasn’t wearing an anorak and he is one of the greatest sportsmen Britain has known, but that’s about the best that can be done.

Every time I see any National Football League (NFL) match, I wonder what was the time and what were the circumstances when American Football started catching the fantasy of the whole of the USA? How has this game taken people by a storm? I guess the root lies in European game, or rather the British game of Rugby. But there is more to American Football History than just the resemblance to Rugby. Let’s see what is it that makes American football so amazing to know about.

American Football Timeline

1876
In the Massasoit House Convention, for the first time rules were formalized for American Football, thanks to the father of American Football, Walter Camp. Walter Camp, a fantastic athlete then got involved in American Football.

1892
In this year, two Pittsburgh-area clubs, the Allegheny Athletic Association (AAA) and the Pittsburgh Athletic Club (PAC) were fiercely competitive. This competition resulted in the making of one of the first professional football player. He was Yale All-America guard William (Pudge) Heffelfinger, representing AAA against PAC.

1897
La Trobe Athletic Association football team became totally professional. For a full season, it had only professionals and it was the first team to do so.

1898
Where earlier a touchdown could get a team 4 points, now a team could score 5 for a touchdown.

1920
These were difficult times in American Football history. American football was reeling under 3 teething problems – rising salaries, enrolling college players still in school and frequent jumping of players from one team to other.

1924
This was the year in the history of American Football when league had 18 franchises, the addition being Kansas City, Kenosha, and Frankford.

1925
NFL’s expanse was increasing as it added 5 more franchises to its bandwagon. TheNew York Giants, the Detroit Panthers, featuringJimmy Conzelmanas owner, coach, and tailback; theProvidence Steam Roller; a new Canton Bulldogs team; and the Pottsville Maroons, perhaps the most successful independent professional team. For the first time, the NFL (National Football League) established a player limit of 16 players.

1939
In the first Pro Bowl championship, the New York Giants defeated Pro All Stars 13-10 at Wrigley Field, Los Angeles on January 15. In the same year on May 20, Carr, NFL president since 1921, died in Columbus. Subsequently, Carl Storck was named acting president on May 25. This was a sad time in American football history.

1970
Vince Lombardi, a legendary American Football figure died of cancer at 57, September 3. The NFL’s Super Bowl Trophy has been named in his honor. It was in the same year on September 10. He coached Green Bay Packers in the 1960′s.

1971
This was the year when Dallas Cowboys changed their home ground from Cotton Bowl to Texas Stadium, their new home ground on October 24.

1975
For all the seasons, pre season, regular season and play off games, referees now had the facility of wireless microphones.

1979
There was an amendment in NFL rules which had a major emphasis on safety of the players. The safety rules were made very stringent and covered every aspect of the game from tackle to punts to worn out gear being not allowed.

1981
48% of sports fans were in favor of football to 31 percent for baseball, as per a joint CBS – New York poll. This was a clear indication good days to come in the American football history. In the same year, 167 representatives from 44 predominantly black colleges during training camps for a total of 289 days were hosted by the NFL teams. The objective behind this program was renewal during each training camp period.

2003
In the year 2003, NFL owners awarded Super Bowl XLI, to be played on February 4, 2007 to Miami on September 17.

2005
Long-term agreements for Sunday and Monday primetime TV packages were sought after by NFL. The same year, NBC acquired the Sunday night package for six years (2006-2011) for NFL. Meanwhile, ESPN bagged an eight-year deal for broadcating Monday Night Football from 2006-2013 on April 18.

These were the important happenings in American Football history, although there were many more things running parallel alongside these. All the ‘firsts’ and remarkable wins, the rise and fall of American football stars and so on also happened during all these years. However, I think these were the milestones in the American football history. This is where I close on the pages of history and say adios!

American Football All Star AFC-NFC 2010 Pro Bowl Buzz In Miami, Fort Lauderdale South Florida

Who will win super bowl 44? Many people favor the Colts simply because they are the celebrity team who has played in the super bowl before and have been victorious. The saints have never been to the Super Bowl. Fortunately, only the total meshing of all the forces and factors will give us a winner on the day, only. We cannot guarantee a winning team; we can only predict a winning team.

Haitians had to be moved to make space for emergency rooms to deal with expected crowd. Right now our town is a buzz with pro bowl fever. People in the streets are jovial. Long lines form at restaurants, bars and even at the casinos. Many people are from out of town. It is great for south Florida to host the pro bowl and the super bowl, back to back weekends.

People need to keep this sporting attitude. South Floridians as well as visitors need to be patient, tolerant and polite. We do not want this great event and its injection of cash to boost our economy to turn into a nightmare. Please do not be impolite. Please treat others with respect. We are definitely not hooligans that turn our sports into a brawl. I have just witnessed one such unpleasantness. Common sense and common kindness need to prevail.

There is definitely more traffic on the highways. There are more people in the grocery stores. Thus far no-one seem to be in too great a hurry. It seems that the sporting mood is prevailing. Let’s all enjoy a super pro bowl Sunday.

South Floridians have arranged many special events for this week and the next. Please pick up your free brochures that will identify events, locations and times. Many, many free events, parties and excursions are available. If you do not know, please ask around. Most hotels have brochures and tables in the foyer with information about pro bowl and super bowl weeks.

Please take some time to make your contribution to Haiti Relief efforts at a location near you. Please place your trash in a trash can. Please be green conscious. Welcome to south Florida. Leave it as beautiful as you have found it.

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Agility training is necessary if you want to get the most of your football skills and ability. You need to be quick, fast and agile. Motor skill development is important in a football players training program.You have to get scientific about your approach. It is not good enough to simply engage in a bunch of cardiovascular exercises that do nothing to develop the specific motor skills necessary to best perform your given position. You have to know what has been proven to work to increase agility. You first need to define exactly what motor skills that you are attempting to enhance. Only then can you devise an efficient program to hone in on them with agility exercises.

Motor Learning Science BackgroundMotor movements have two classifications: open and closed. Each type demands specific functioning from the central nervous system (CNS). Each also requires very distinct interpretations of receptor information, efficient response mechanisms, memory recall and neuromuscular stimuli.Low level motor movement, closed motor skills, in this situation of execution, is pretty much static. In other words, they remain constant and predictable.* They have definitive starting and stopping points.-. That means that there is very little involvement from the muscular proprioceptors for correction once the movement is set into play.* A muscular proprioceptor is a signaling mechanism in a muscle or a joint that provides information to the CNS concerning the appropriateness of a given movement.* The movement is self-directed and initiated from the intention of the athlete.Some examples of closed motor skills are golf strokes, track and field events, archery and weightlifting. You see, these actions are stable and predictable – not a lot of variance involved.At the other extreme of motor movement are the open skills. * These are more complex and require more feedback from the proprioceptors because they occur in non-static situations. * Split-second adjustments are commonly needed to successfully execute these movements. Incorrect bodily positioning, harm-announcing pressure and of course sharp pains are some of the possible feedback scenarios for incorrect motions.* There can also be instantaneous reactions in movement from visual and auditory stimuli. For instance, a third baseman may immediately go into motion upon a split-second projection of a batter’s contact with a pitched ball. Also, a basketball player may immediately respond to a vocal signal from a point guard.* Open motor skills are called “forced pace” skills because of the ever-evolving conditions in which they occur. Instantaneously precise actions and reactions are required for optimal success.Obviously, open motor skills require a different and more advanced type of conditioning for their development. It can be a complex science just to discern the sport-specific motor skills to develop. Agility training for football varies with the position played and the natural abilities of the players. Also, it follows that there are an infinite number of possible scenarios that could or could not be task-specific enough to be beneficial when performing agility training for football.In essence, agility is the ability to change your direction. This doesn’t simply apply to your entire bodily direction, but also to specific areas or parts of your body. An example would be a wide receiver jumping through the air, looking back over his own shoulders, sighting the ball sailing towards him, sustaining his altitude maximally, extending his hands high around his right side all while anticipating and preparing for an eminent collision with an oncoming opponent. This is a constant event.Agility training for football is considered to be the most important overall element of a player’s training regimen. Agility training must be varied from position to position as well. For example, a defensive back may cover 10 to 15 yards every play of the game while an offensive lineman may never move more than 5 to 10 yards in any given play. There are skill positions and power positions in the game and each type must train for agility differently.Here are some basic agility training exercises for football:W – Pattern Cones are placed in the form of an elongated W (about 10 or 12 yards apart). The players run in straight lines from cone to cone. Focus is concentrated on rapid starts and stops.Lateral Shuffle Take a dozen cones and place them roughly 5 yards apart, 1 yard in front of each other. Perform a lateral shuffle through the cones with optimal speed. No crossing feet. Stay low to the ground.Figure 8 Shuffle 2 cones are placed roughly 2 yards apart. The player makes 5 or 6 tight figure eight shuffle patterns around the cones. The direction of the shuffle is then reversed and the shuffles repeated.These are just a few of the unlimited varieties of agility training exercises for football. Many other exercises and movemnt patterns can be used. The important thing to remember is that you are preparing yourself to respond instantaneously to any number of unpredictable external stimuli. You have to keep your mind open to visual stimuli and auditory commands as well as physical pressures and signals. Agility training for football is some of the most important training that players do. it needs to be practiced year round.——–Patrick Beith, CSCS, PES, USATF II, is the co-owner of Athletes Acceleration, http://www.AthletesAcceleration.com If you are looking for more football training tips, techniques and resources go now to: http://www.athletesacceleration.com/sports.html