Building cohesion and chemistry in your youth football team

When Coaching Youth Football Chemistry Building

The best youth football coaches are not only very good X and O guys and great teachers are great to put together their teams. One of the best I've seen do this is my friend Tony Holland from Baltimore. Tony has been using our system over the past 3 years and has had some surprising results. It has some very specific techniques he uses to put together their teams. Tony is an avid student and has taken some concepts that he used with success in his business and applied it to his youth football team to make it better and improve the experience for his children.

Setting the stage for your youth football team

Like us, Tony divides his team into multiple groups of 5-6 players. We do the same thing and assign a coach to each group and allow the group to name their little "team". Organizing your team in this way students feel more connected. When performing exercises type of circuit and take a break, it is much easier to call in each group with the name and the sending of that group to the next station. Children are often proud of their little group. We found in doing exercises for competition or fun group team building drills, the kids have more fun and more effort if there is competition between groups. Keeping children in those smaller groups, children connect faster and deeper, which in turn improves their enjoyment and commitment levels.

Setting the stage Solid Rock

Tony takes this a step further. Before the season, Tony goes to Walmart and buy a bunch of small round smooth rocks. His team is the Ravens, so Tony spray paints every rock and purple Ravens put stickers on every rock. After each practice, the coach assigns each group a rock for a player in his group who heard the best and the most difficult efforted. Each coach hands the rock to its first winning team the whole team at the end of each practice. Tony said that his children get this mad over small rocks. He seeks the commitment of the boys put into practice as the foundation (rock) of success for his team. The foundation is built with the help of these small rocks stronger Tony that cost less than 0.25 each.

Lessons of life from youth football

These rocks simple and not very appreciated by players of Tony. A player, in fact, moved and touched Tony had put her jewels in a box and made sure that I have a new house. It was as if these rocks were his most valuable asset. Tony said "I keep my rock forever," m which brought a huge smile and know the lips of my friend Tony. Parents teams, even after buying a certain initial skepticism and now I'm all for it after seeing the results.

Just think of this guy, 40 years from now in 2048, this guy is moving the same again. He is now 49 years, and loading his belongings on the moving truck. you take a look at that box last little garret. In that box is a scrapbook some old, some trophies old children and her precious little box of rocks by Tony Holland, back in 2008. 40 years from now that the player remembers Tony and his lectures on the work effort, commitment and team. How many other people are going to remember that 40 years? Think about it.

If you are coaching youth football, my good friend Tony is definitely one of the guys who want to emulate if you want this type of permanent lessons ingrained in your players ....