Impact! Coaching Successful Youth Football

About the Book

Most youth coaches are former players and fans. There’s a huge difference, as you’re about to discover, between playing football, watching football, and coaching football. As a coach, there are things you need to know, and things you need to do, long before you ever step on the field.

By reading this book, you’ll learn…

… What the most important play in football is… and how you can get more out of it!

… How to coach punt fakes that work when you need them most!

… How to spring the punt return for big yardage!

… When, how, and why to block punts!

… How to get kickoff coverage you can trust!

… How to set up an onside kick that will be recovered 80% of the time!

… How to regain scoring momentum with kickoff returns that take advantage of coverage tendencies!

… How to teach an effective scheme for kicking field goals and extra points (and why you should!)

… How to block PATs and Field Goals—and what to do if your opponent does something unusual!

… How to put together a comprehensive scouting report solely for the special teams game—figure out what your opponents do and how you can gain advantages from it!

… The best drills for reinforcing those skills needed for the kicking game!

Also includes practice techniques for interfacing your special teams period with the rest of your program and a complete fourth down offensive system that you can use anywhere on the field to keep your opponents guessing!

About the Author

Derek Wade is a youth football coach that happens to have spent most of his career coaching at the high school level. He has been active as an Internet coach and author since 1999. His coaching experience includes several years at the 10-11 and 11-14 age groups in non-Pop-Warner affiliated programs. Since 2001 he has coached with the Tomales High School Braves where he has functioned on both the Varsity and Junior Varsity levels as head scout, position coach, tackling coach, and special teams coordinator. Coach Wade is the author of The Gap-8: Positions and Responsibilities, a PowerPoint presentation widely disseminated on the Internet, and is also the editor of Football for Youth!. (www.FBforYouth.com) He has been a regular clinic speaker at the Double Wing Symposiums, and his well-received presentations have covered such topics as “Reading and Attacking Defensive Keys,” “Advanced Misdirection with the Double Wing Offense,” “Installing a Successful Double Wing in Limited Practice Time,” “Teaching the Long Snap,” and, “Coaching Kickoffs and Onside Kicks.”

He is a former active duty enlisted member of the United States Coast Guard stationed for much of his career at USCG Training Center Petaluma in Northern California, where he worked as a training design specialist and electronics instructor. He holds an Associates level degree in Electronics Technology from the University of Phoenix, and a Bachelors level degree in Sports and Health Science with a focus in Coaching Studies from the American Military University. Currently he is working on Volume III of the Impact! series while pursuing a middle school teaching certificate.

He is married, with two dogs, and lives in South Prairie, Washington, where he divides his time between thanking God that he’s no longer in California and teaching young people to play football.

Oh, and he has hair now.