Mirror Step vs Power Step

Coach,
We have power steped in the past we now mirror step.

Coach, I teach the power step. It is a much more aggressive step. Mirror step is too read/react for me. But, I know you're an advocate of it and Coach Golla is an advocate of it, so it must work.

Lou

Coach, all you are doing is stepping north with the foot closest to the defender, and you are driving through the defender. Mirror step is when you read the offender's movements. The power step is much more aggressive.

Lou

Coach,
sorry I'm so late...I just bought a computer. It seems like no one wants to talk ball anymore-probably to close to the season. Anyway, I have been teaching a different tech to my DL for the past few years...very effective...I'll never change. I coach college by the way...so it's OK to say these things, I think. The hardest part of any player is obviously the helmet, it can do the most damage. We use a power step and drive our foreheads into the OL's chest...work 1/2 the man in our shades...hands at clavicle and outside of shoulder to turn or tilt OL. It's the violent collision with the forehead that hurts the OL and creates our necessary separation. To me, separation is everything...you can't make a move without it...and, how else can you find the ball carrier? Also, the fact that our foreheads are in the OL's #'s assures us that our pad level is lower than theirs. Whaddya think?

Coach mac,
I have always told my linemen to win the battle of heads, that is, after contact on a base or reach you will know where he wants you by where he is putting his head. Then its a matter of push pulling or squeezing the gap. Also on the Zone block the O lineman will take a bucket step before exploding into the D lineman.

S. Curtis