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Developing Listening Skills in Coaching Youth Football
Listening skills is very important to me as a coach of youth football. I will pick a player who may not have as much skill who is a great listener over a talented player who doesn’t listen.
Players that do not listen will not only mess up your youth football game plans, but are usually a distraction during practice. Please avoid these players since they will be a nuisance and a constant source of aggravation throughout the entire year. The old saying “the apple doesn't fall very far from the tree” usually runs true here and the parent is also a problem.
Listening skills can be observed when you are addressing the youth football team, instructing drills and during the sprint conditioning at the end of practice. When we have the team run sprints we constantly change the snap count to see who jumps. It always seems to be the same players who continue to jump.
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