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Maximizing Your Offensive Circuit Drills � Overall blocking can be improved with a progression of drills.

by: Roy Istvan
Offensive Coordinator, Cornell University
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Overall blocking can be improved with a progressions of drills.

During the football season time to prepare and practice is very precious. We tend to spend all of our time on �scheming� the opponent and very little on fundamentals. Because of the importance of fundamentals, we have decided to build them into our practice schedule. We call them the �Fundamental 5� or �Fun 5� for short. The first one is blocking by the entire offensive unit.

Blocking is the one skill that all players have in common; therefore, we train them all the same. Once practice begins, all offensive players gather in a circle around me. I number them 1-5 and send them to coaches that are in a large circle surrounding the hash marks (5 stations). Each station will train the players in the first drill of the blocking progression, �Fit�. After 60 secon....The full article can only be seen by subscribers.
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