Kid gets Destroyed Too Much or just football?

[HearshotKDS]

This looks like it was set-up - specifically it seems like they have a stud for his age kid (ball carrier) and the coaches wanted to see what happens when they put him up against the smallest/worst kid at practice. Guessing that from the fact they are phone filming (if you film practices you set up a camera, coach doesnt just whip out a phone) and the giggling before. Its very irresponsible, its the football equivalent of having a featherweight full contact spar with a heavyweight. I'm going to ignore the fact that they are a really, really young age to be doing basically Oklahoma drills.

 

[dentfan]

No way. I’d imagine 90% of coaches below HS level (and maybe even including many HS ones) don’t have a clue about correct technique, or how to teach it. Even college teams let’s the “elite” kids get by without it, as long as they are bigger, faster, stronger and help the team win (make $$$).

THIS!

This is why I spend so much time researching the coaching before I put my kids in it.

The issue is that I have the athletic background to look at a practice and within a few seconds know if it's trash or not.

Now, sports are great for kids who have disadvantaged backgrounds and have parents who may or may not be as available as I am for my kids. They're just happy for the opportunity, and, it's true, they should be, but the lack of quality coaching is there.

This is what I worry about. Coaches don't coach effectively and this happens.

 

[DC]

Oh please don't! We need to get our boys outside and active.

Be there at the practice, have him learn form tackling before you put him in.

A good drill is to hold up a number on a paper and he has to read it before he puts his shoulder and chest into you so he gets used to looking up and into the hit, not down and shying away from contact.

I really hope you reconsider.

I was kidding, kind of. My oldest is 8 and plays every sport including club soccer. He does 100 situps every day of the week except Sundays and is currently doing 3 sets of pushups (14 reps) every other day.

He'll play tackle one day but for now he's busy with soccer, basketball, flag football, school, bikes, hiking, fishing etc. Plus, he's dying to do Karate. Lol

 

[Pegger]

Looks like the white kid's parents no longer have to save up for college....

Seriously though, this is brutal. The kids' helmet look like 30% of their bodies, so they were both leading with their heads. The impacts of a brain injury at that age could cap any potential he has. Not cool.

 

[jerkstore]

Sometimes I’m glad my son is slow as hell.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Clean hit.

 

[modo]

Its a drill. Everyone screws up at full speed at times.....

Kids are more resilient than you think. There are certain things I would not let them do. I'd have no problem with a tackling drill.

If you don't like that, don't let your kid play football or sports in general. They are going to get shinned in soccer, hit with a baseball and blown up in football. Its just going to happen.

 

[TexasBearfan]

a study of NFL players with CTE found that the players who played pee wee football typically had worse cases of CTE

 

[jerkstore]

They might be better off without the helmets and pads.

 

[sevvy]

You're never too young for a little CTE.

 

[Anytime23]

If parents, mainly fathers, are dumb enough to put their kids into a sport known for brain trauma, i'm 100% for watching them get blown out of their cleats regardless of age. How old are you son? 3 and a half? Get in there, we're doing Oklahomas.

Give me all of your mangled limbs and broken jaws. Give me all of it. Give me your pain and display it for my entertainment.

 

[Gustavus Adolphus]

Two weeks ago I recorded myself giving my 10 month old son some various WWE finishers - power bomb, pedigree, razor's edge....shit like that. Well I got a ton of complaints. Can't imagine what is going on here.

 

[PFTCB]

Did you really just lump wrestling in with sports where peoples brains turn to mush?

Lmao right. One of the safest sports on the planet. Concussions are extremely rare. I don't even know anyone who got a concussion wrestling all through HS and college.

 

[Kaufman20Embalm]

This is exactly why I started coaching my kids sports teams. It took me half of one practice to see how incompetent some of the coaches they have teaching youth sports to kids. Too many parents concerned about winning the pee wee championship instead of the kids safety.

 

[GoBears]

Too many morons coaching in this sport. It's odd how many parents hand the lives of their children over to them.

 

[Rob219_CBMB]

i would be walking into the coaches houses after that hit..only because these kids was put into this situation by the coaches.

I used to build ramps on low buildings up on the roof (abandoned) with my friends and we would jump across to the next close building with our GT/ bmx bikes, once landed on the pavement below..fucking stupid as hell, never again. Nobody made us do that. but that kid gettin lit up like that would trigger me.

 

[Heidenlarm]

I'm pretty sure I got concussed doing a very similar drill in a youth football league not quite at that age, but not in high school yet either.

Ball carrier runs at me, next pop, vision goes black save for a quick flash of bright light in the center of my vision, and then I'm picking my ass up off the ground a little dazed.

As far as teaching technique, all the coaches were volunteers and weren't more than the average Joe. They surely didn't know a terrible lot.

I guess that explains some things about me! Oh, of anyone is wondering... I did make the tackle.

 

[MDB111™]

I'm pretty sure I got concussed doing a very similar drill in a youth football league not quite at that age, but not in high school yet either.

Ball carrier runs at me, next pop, vision goes black save for a quick flash of bright light in the center of my vision, and then I'm picking my ass up off the ground a little dazed.

As far as teaching technique, all the coaches were volunteers and weren't more than the average Joe. They surely didn't know a terrible lot.

I guess that explains some things about me! Oh, of anyone is wondering... I did make the tackle.

Where ya been dude?
Ive drank so many beers and described them without you.

 

[bearsfan1977]

I got knocked out once in middle school when a kid speared me with his helmet. But we were taught well, and needless to say, I don’t believe he saw the field again for the 2 or 3 games or so left.

What disgusts me about this is the coaches clearly not teaching these kids, and then laughing like it’s some kind of joke, not so much the drill itself.

Anyone remember playing tackle football at recess or in the yard after school? No helmets, no shoulder pads, and almost no injuries. Ironically it’s because people can feel invincible with the helmet, and that’s how you get hurt. Without them, no one was leading their head into anything, much less another head at full speed.

Teach form before full speed contact drills for chrissake. Especially in pee wee football.

 

[Hawkeye OG]

#1 is going to be an absolute liability for that team