O'Line Getoffs

SEE #'s 1-6 BELOW:

BASE DRIVE BLOCK

PURPOSE:

A) Used at the P.O.A.
B) 1 on 1 block.
C) Take defender where he wants to go.
D) Get movement – sustain.
E) Back – option run.



1. Explode out.
2. Short first step (1/2 way to fingers of down hand; knee rolls over toe – NOT behind).
3. Back flat.
4. Bull neck.
5. Proper aiming point (aim face at throat of DLM; base of #’s of LB). Look the block in.
6. Second step MUST be beyond first step to win. Make contact on second step (most important step). Hit 1 yard through defender.
7. Whip the arms.
8. Blocking surface (drive the elbows inside & make contact with a triangle of hat & hands (thumbs up) to a lockout; contact the short ribs & “lift him out of his socks” on a 45 degree angle with fork lift motion).
9. Shoot the hips (unlock the power).
10. Driving steps.
11. Feet under you – good base.
12. Maintain contact.
13. 2nd & 3rd effort.

TO ME, THERE IS A GREAT DICHOTOMY BETWEEN SPEED AND QUICKNESS. As is being discussed on another thread here on the forum, speed is inherited genetically for the most part. Sure, you can enhance it SOME with training, but by and large it comes from the gene pool.

The two best drills have always been for me at least, to enhance quickness of the feet, THE JUMP ROPE AND THE DOTS. LADDER DRILLS ARE ALSO EXCELLENT FOR THIS PURPOSE.

Speed has always been the direct result of stride length and stride frequency, and will always be that way.
Building of the glutes, the muscles most responsible for those actions, are the most advantageously improved by squatting in the weight room. Quickness is determined by the rapid machinegun like movement of the feet, and stride length actually has very little, if anything to do with it. Thus, we promote the exercises mentioned above (jump rope, dots, ladder) to attain this result.

Coach Esaton-TIGER ONE