1. Offensive Line Play– Youth Football

2. Stance -- Use a slight stagger
-- Toe & Instep relationship (slight pigeon toe)
-- Inside foot = power foot, outside foot = kick foot
-- Keep feet underneath armpits, keep weight on insteps
-- Get players to squat into a 2 pt. stance
(This will help to teach a consistent knee bend)
-- Keep shoulders back, allowing players weight to stay over their hips
-- Place dominant hand onto ground
-- The off hand can be placed outside of knee

3. Alignment -- Center sets the OL -- Center’s stance is balanced
-- Rest of OL set from Center
-- Guards one & half foot splits with heads on the Center’s hip (Except on goal line & short yardage)
-- OT & TE will be even with the Guards

4. Pre-snap mindset
-- Know the snap count (If you forgot, use “what’s for dinner?” pizza, pizza
-- Establish a good alignment, stance, & split,
-- From here, we break the whole block down into 1. Approach
2. Contact
3. Follow-through
4. Finish

5. Approach ( The Drive Block)
-- Explode with low pad level (understand that blocking is leverage mechanics)
-- Get them to have power angles in their ankles, knees, & hips
-- Teach a proper aiming point & the most effective angle of departure
-- For the drive block, your aiming point is to get your eyes under the chin of the defender
-- Attack defender’s playside number
-- 1st step is compact towards gap you are protecting
-- Shoot hands on first step

6. Contact -- 2nd step must gain ground past 1st step
-- Keep knees in front of toes (This puts the “DRIVE” in the drive block
-- Stay on course
-- Contact is made with face, (not head)- front of shoulder pad, & heels of hands
-- hands are slightly in front of face
-- find the short ribs of the defender with your hands
-- Keep thumbs up, fingers out & elbows in

7. Follow-through -- Strain your body through the block
-- Linemen must learn to redirect vs. movement & continue to accelerate feet through the block
-- Keep working your hands inside
-- Great initial contact does not equal an effective follow- through;

8. Finish -- Impose your will on the defender
-- Your block is not over until the last shrill of the whistle
Can teach this block and any others as a progression
A. Frame it up- Let them feel & see the block
B. Fit & drive- (little resistance by defender)
C. Contact to Thud- (moderate resistance 3-4 steps)
D. Full-Go- Finish on the whistle

9. Pass Pro Man Protection -- Stay in front of your man
-- Don’t chase your defender (mirror him)
-- Have a z in the knee, sink your butt,
-- Don’t click heels as you move your feet
-- Punch the breast plate of defender & hit on the rise; don’t lower hands in between punches
-- Punch is quick boxer’s jab; violent
-- Elbows in tight, fingers spread apart, hands in front of face

10. Drills Punch Drill Mirror Drill
Board drills for drive block, reach block, etc…
Sled Drills
Combo Drills