Madden NFL 2011 Debut Trailer [HD]

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Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee - Chick-Fil-A Bowl - : Hokie Highlights

Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee - Chick-Fil-A Bowl - : Hokie Highlights



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The World of Helmet Decals

Of course, if you have played football, you know the importance of a helmet. The helmet even had the name of your team embossed on the exterior more than likely with the help of decals. Today, you can purchase all kinds of sport helmet decals including your favorite football team. As you look at the various decals for football you will find ovals, circles, shields, name strips, custom designs, dimensional, interlocking letters, script decals, oversized, multi-color tape, die cut letters, die cut numbers, custom award markers, and flag decals. This is only one category.

Helmet decals do not have to have anything to do with a sport at all. As a matter of fact, if you look for the most popular decals for helmets besides sports you will see a world of different decals. Fun decals with sayings such as "Loud Pipes Save Lives", "Ain't Life a Bitch", and "American By Birth Biker By Choice", are among the most popular. However, these are just decals with sayings, there are helmet decals offering lethal threat skulls, lethal threat pinup girls, Purple Tribal butterfly, and so much more.

Of course, you must first decide the reason you want decals on your helmet. Do you need decals because you are a member of a soccer or football team? Do you want to express your personality or do you want just want a cool looking helmet? Along with this, you may want to purchase decals for your child's helmet and you certainly do not want adult themed content. The good news is that you can find helmet decals that will glow in the dark, offer bright colors, and more for the kids.

When it comes to kids, you can have custom decals created for their bicycle helmet. This way they will enjoy choosing the items that will be on their helmets and you can help decide if their choices are appropriate. Little girls may want unicorns, kitty cats, or even wording such as princess or their name. Boys of course may want dragons, bugs, or their name. Remember, you can always add glow tape to ensure their safety while riding their bike.

No matter if, you are a man, woman, girl, or boy, there are so many different helmet decals on the market, plus the ability to have custom decals created that there is no reason you should be wearing a helmet without some type of decoration.

If you liked this article, you should read some of the other articles I have written. For instance, read about helmet decals. And while I have your attention, why not read an article I wrote about kribensis?

Youth Football - Using the Dummy Relay Race For Evaluating and Conditioning Youth Football Players

We use a variety of fun games to not only condition our kids but for team building and evaluation purposes as well. Youth Football is a game that values core strength, the strength a player has from just under his hips to just under his chest. This strength is what allows players to control their bodies. Youth Football is all about very short bursts of speed and changes in direction. Those that can burst, stop, change direction and accelerate in very small areas are those that have the natural ability to go very far in the game of football.

Unfortunately the typical 40 yard dash or pushup contest doesn't measure for this skill set, but there are games you can play that will help reveal those that do and do not have core strength. One of the kids and my favorite "games" (game for the kids, an evaluation and conditioning tool for me) is the Dummy Delay race. This is one that once you run it, the kids will beg for it all season. It's a game that will get all the kids shouting encouragement for each other and have the parents howling with laughter from their seats.

Getting Started

You start by dividing your team into "teams" of 4-5 kids. You may want to have each coach be the "head coach" of a single team to bring some competitive fire to the game. Put a pylon down to mark where each team lines up in single file line behind their team captain or coach. Next put a pylon directly in front of the teams cone at about 15 yards for 9-10 year old kids, you can go longer for older kids and shorter for the younger kids. Just make sure all the teams are lined up side by side and have the same distance to run to their cones. Now have the captain of each team start it off by grasping a tall blocking dummy, this is usually done by holding it the long way close to the chest in bear hug type fashion. The goal of the game is to run with the dummy around the pylon and back to your teammate, it is a relay. When the player gets back to the starting pylon he hands the dummy off to the next player. We usually have the 4 losing teams do 5 pushups to make it interesting.

How It Works

What you will find is the kids that have core strength, the athletes, will have little problem holding the dummy and running around the pylon. On the other hand those that have poor core strength will wobble when they try to run with the dummy and will rarely be able to run it a straight line, they will look like a listing ship. The results of this game may really surprise you. We have often had nice looking big kids we thought were real athletes, struggle with this, looks can deceive. On the other hand we have had small wiry kids that didn't look like they were very athletic at all just crush this drill and go on to play significant roles for our teams at "skill" positions. This game really separates the kids that can play from those that can't, a huge time saver we all need in that first week of football practice.

Conditioning

If you do this game using a quick enough pace and with small enough team sizes it can even help you with your conditioning. Think about it, the distance covered is 30 yards, about 7 seconds worth of a short burst, then the 4 other players do their 7 seconds and time to do 5 pushups means a total "rest" of 40 seconds. Sounds like the interval many football plays are run in real games, a 6-7 second burst followed by a 40-50 second interval to get the ball set and in and out of the huddle, imagine that.

The Real Fun Part

Once we have had ample time to evaluate the players, we like to add a twist to this game for purely fun reasons. Pair teams against each other by having just 1 pylon for both teams. The goal is to run around the pylon and back to your next relay player, but now contact is allowed. So when the competing players go around the pylons they can run into each other using the dummy against their chest as a big cushion. The squeals of laughter will be heard in the next county on this one, I promise and your parents will think you are some kind of cool coaching genius.

We usually do this game at our first practice of the season. In the end you will know who your players are and have a bunch of enthusiastic, motivated and satisfied kids and parents.

Dave Cisar-

Dave is a Nike "Coach of the Year" Designate and speaks nationwide at Coaches Clinics. His book "Winning Youth Football a Step by Step Plan" was endorsed by Tom Osborne and Dave Rimington. His personal teams using this system to date have won 94% of their games in 5 Different Leagues.

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Winning in Youth Football

As a youth football coach your goals should be making sure the players are having a good experience and are learning the game of football. A solid repetition of the fundamental skills should be carried out throughout the year, helping each player reach his potential for that season.

That being said, I have the theory of why not try to win while you're accomplishing the above goals. I'm not talking about the very young flag leagues where no score is kept. We all know every parent on the sideline and most of the players keep the score anyway. I do not endorse keep score, counting wins or losses and acting like Vince Lombardi in these developmental leagues. Move the players around, giving everyone a chance, and ignore any type of record keeping.

I do believe in having all teams prepared, so even if you are coaching in a developmental league, do not embarrass the kids. Have them ready to play and make sure their fundamentals are solid. When you get to the keeping score level with records and playoffs, by all means try to win. Try to win, but noty at any costs.

Winning the championship, even at the Pop Warner level, feels great and will remain with you forever. How many chances you get to play for the title will depend on many factors. The main factor is the size of the town you are coaching for (if it is a travel team) and more important is how the players are divided up. If it is a draft and the teams will be split evenly you will have less chances of building a powerhouse. If you are fortunate to live in a large town who plays smaller towns, chances are you will play for many championships. I coach in the second smallest city in our conference yet have made the title game in two of the past three seasons. Over the twenty years, my teams play for the title about every three years. Unlike the higher levels of football, youth football does not see many upsets. The bigger towns with a larger number of players win the majority of the games.

It is not a common occurrence for my town to win titles. The city I coach for has been crowned champion only four times in the past two decades. It seems the only city with a longer dry spell is the New Orleans Saints. They arrived at the Super Bowl being victorious in only two playoff games in forty two years. The 2010 Saints team won their first two playoff games, equaling the all time win totals, and finished the job by winning the Super Bowl. You could visualize the confidence of the entire organization, particularly following the second half onside kick to open up the 3rd quarter. Talk about a bold move, proving the Saints showed up to win the game. The Saints were not shy, stating late in the season their goal was to go undefeated, unlike the Indy team who openly quit on the NFL, fans and themselves once they had secured home field advantage in the playoffs.

Enjoy the thrill if you ever get the opportunity to compete for a title as it is one of the most electrifying experiences you can have in youth football.

Jim Oddo has been coaching pee wee, flag, pop warner and youth football for over 23 years. He has attained an 80+% winning percentage. Read how to win with over 400 FREE tips and posts regarding every area of little guy football at: http://footballplaybooks.info. In addition to coaching tips, there are many different offensive and defensive playbooks all modified in Youth Football Playbooks.

What Do Football Uniforms Say?

Football uniforms may just be one of the most important pieces of clothing ever invented. A football team cannot just go out on the field in any old getup their football uniforms need to make a statement, they need to exude power all over and to do that you need to make sure that your team is getting their football uniforms designed by the right people. There are all kinds of different football uniforms out there on the market today and not all of them are created equally, both in terms of the sewing and the design itself. Even the colors of your football uniforms can have a huge impact on the kind of message they pout across to others.

The football uniforms that your team wears need to intimidate the other players while instilling a sense of confidence in your own people. Your football uniforms need to keep the fans close and the other teams at bay, there is a lot of psychology involved I the choosing the right football uniforms for your team. You should never take this choice lightly because it is a big decision that can affect the way that the team performs out on the field.

Look at it this way, if you put your team out there in football uniforms that were all pink and fluffy, what do you think would happen? Do you think that anyone, be it other teams or the fans, would take your team seriously? Of course not, even the players themselves would have trouble playing well in these kinds of football uniforms. That is why the uniforms that you choose need to be so good. They need to make the players feel comfortable and strong, they need to know they look good and solid when they are out there on the field. If they feel it they will be it, it is as simple as that.

There are all kinds of places where you can get your football uniforms, from big companies like Nike or Adidas make them and some of the bigger football teams will get these companies to make their football uniforms. Chances are that you will not be able to afford such fancy football uniforms for your team so why not try to get your football uniforms online. The internet is a great place where you can save hundreds of dollars on your football uniforms, if you have not looked there for your football needs yet then it is high time that you got on over there today.

When you use the internet for your football uniforms you will be able to choose only the best and they will cost you just a fraction of what you would otherwise have to pay. You may even be able to find those big name brands of football uniforms at discount prices. It is definitely worth a shot when you are in the market for new football uniforms.

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Youth Football Practices, Fun Increases Competitiveness - it is Your Friend, See How

Having Fun and Being Competitive Are NOT Mutually Exclusive

First let's start off by establishing, you can have fun, play all your kids, teach great fundamentals and play well (win), these aren't somehow mutually exclusive goals like some soccer moms or perennial losing coaches would like you to believe. But I've also been challenged by some of the win-at-all costs guys or the skeptical negative naybobs of negativism that you can't interject fun into everything you do in youth football. One of these cheerful guys once challenged me to make an angle form fit and freeze tackling drill fun.

How To Interject Fun Into the Most Mundane Drill

While this very important drill is probably one of the few drills we do every day in practice, it can be a very vanilla and bland drill. These are the EXACT type of drills you HAVE to make fun, otherwise the kids end up just going through the motions on the drill instead of getting the full benefit of it.

First, let's describe the Angle Form Fit Tackling Drill: 2 players facing the same direction (towards the coach) about 10-12 yards apart. The coach is about 7 -10 yards in front of the players, he is standing in-between the 2 players 10 yard spacing. The "defender" is in his defensive position stance, whatever that may be. The "offensive" player is standing in a 2 point stance. On "go" each player jogs at about 1/3 speed toward the coach, so each player is running at about a 45 degree angle. The players converge just in front of the coach, with the 'defender" executing a "fit" form tackle on the offensive player. The coaching points we are looking for are: defenders feet nearly on top of the feet of the "offensive" player, knees bent, feet just wider than shoulder length apart, head up and in front of the offensive player, backside shoulder making contact with the offensive players midsection, and arms wrapped completely around the offensive players midsection. Upon contact each player freezes and the coach corrects any mistakes, once the coach taps the players on the head or says "go" they can come off the "freeze" and go to the end of the line.

Pace is Key

You can do this at a pace of 4-5 per minute; I do mine at a pace of 6-10 per minute. Do this in very small groups of 6 or 8, get several groups going and remember to alternate which line is offense and defense so the kids get used to tackling from both angles. This drill is part of our dynamic warm up, where our goal is to get blood flow to the muscles as well as teach a very important football skill. You can't accomplish this goal if the pace is not quick and the lines are too long. The pace should be such that the kids are breathing a bit heavier than normal, but not winded.

To interject some "fun" into this very important but monotonous drill is fairly simple. Divide the group into 2 teams of 3-4 players each. Team A is in line 1, team B is line 2. Alternate each rep the line that is the designated tackler. See which team can get to 5 perfect "fits" first. A perfect "fit" is a repetition where every coaching point is met perfectly by the tackler. As the kids get better, move the number to 10 perfect fits. The losing team has to do 5 pushups. Another way to do this is to see how many perfect "fits" in a row each team can do. Once a team makes a mistake they have to start back at zero. The first team to 10 perfect fits in a row, wins, with the losing team doing 5 pushups. Another way to do this drill is to have a team record. Keep the teams the same every practice and see which team can set the record of the most perfect "fits" in row.

Why it Works

Youth football players love competition, setting records and making their counterparts do pushups, so adding this into a drill will make them more focused and motivated to do the drill correctly. It also exerts some peer pressure on the players in their respective groups to stay focused, as no one wants to be the player that breaks the streak.

Fun is Your Friend

Remember that fun is your friend. Competition is just one component of many that you can use to make your football practices more fun. The book covers many more. Making your practices fun without giving up anything is just good coaching, Not only will your players be more attentive, your attendance and retention numbers will be off the charts.

I'm always perplexed by coaches that e-mail me about attendance issues or retention problems. While much of it can be solved through the expectation setting process and player contracts detailed in the book, a lot of the problem is solved by having great practice plans and interjecting a fun component to each drill.

Since moving to this practice methodology we have consistently had about 80% of the kids with perfect practice attendance. Our drops are almost non-existent and our retention numbers (kids who sign up again the following year) range from 90-95%. This season we have 97.5% of the kids back from two teams I coached last year.

Building the Emotional Bank Account

Another thing interjecting fun into your drills and practice does for your youth football team is it builds up your "emotional bank account" with your parents. Steven Covey talks about an imaginary bank account we all have with each other, where we are always making deposits and taking withdrawals. By having interjecting fun and the enthusiasm it generates into your football practices, you are making deposits into that emotional bank account of your parents. When it comes time to do something they don't like, like moving Junior from tailback to tight end, (making a withdrawal) the parents are more apt to be accepting if you have made a bunch of deposits along the way.

Fun is your friend; use it to make your youth football team better.

Dave Cisar-

Dave has a passion for developing youth coaches so they can in turn develop teams that are competitive and well organized. He is a Nike "Coach of the Year" Designate and speaks nationwide at Coaches Clinics. His book "Winning Youth Football a Step by Step Plan" was endorsed by Tom Osborne and Dave Rimington.

With over 15 years of hands-on experience as a youth coach, Dave has developed a detailed systematic approach to developing youth players and teams. His personal teams to using this system to date have won 94% of their games in 5 Different Leagues.

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