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Transform your game at the point of contact by becoming a shoulder tackling standout.
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Transform your game at the point of contact by becoming a shoulder tackling standout.
At Next Wave Contact, we are committed to proliferating safe and effective contact practices in youth football. We accomplish this by training youth athletes to close space, establish leverage, maintain shoulder tackling tension, and remove the head from contact. This requires teaching both youth coaches and athletes proper techniques and best practices in collision, blocking, and tackling scenarios.
Youth tackle football coaching staffs are overwhelmed with conflicting demands, e.g., practice planning, roster management, scheduling, scouting, communication, etc. Consequently, coaches must conduct tradeoffs often resulting in individual or specific coaching needs being reduced for the betterment of the overall team. This limits individual or small group (pod) training focused on skills or knowledge acquisition, especially related to contact. This results in reduced repetitions in the games most important tasks - blocking and tackling.
Contact is required for football. Our approach focuses on safety and effectiveness. Safety and effectiveness are symbiotic in nature meaning by being safe the youth tackle football athlete is being effective and by being effective the youth athlete is being safe. To train athletes in this approach requires a progressive, interrelated process, namely closing the distance, establishing leverage, maintaining tension, maximizing striking surface, and driving the opponent to the ground.
To train youth athletes in the aforementioned progression, we provide sessions that exercise these components in a controlled and measured environment with an emphasis on ”high resistence, low contact“ meaning emulating the speed of the game but using tools such as resistance bands, medicine balls, and contact bags to avoid substantial risk. This results in the youth tackle football player using proper technique to achieve the desired outcome - a safe and effective tackle.
We work with youth tackle football athletes in the 5th - 8th grade at all skill levels. We primarily coach athletes in Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts. Our sessions are after 5:30pm during the winter months, and as early 7am and as late as 8pm in the summer. We coordinate all logistics related to field availability with our local town.
At Next Wave Contact, we believe every youth tackle football athlete should have access to best in class shoulder tackling training. At the encouragement of our community, we established the Safe Tackling Scholarship Fund. For every $60 dollars donated, an athlete will receive no cost tuition to attend our training.
If you wish to donate to a specific athlete please annotate their name in the GoFundMe donation.
if you wish to make a general donation then no need to worry.
Thank you to our donors, we greatly appreciate your support!
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