LIVE IN HALF PADS

Coach,

We went top heavy (helmets and shoulder pads) during our entire offensive practices this year and had no lower leg injuries (except for one toe that got stepped on). We place the emphasis on playing fast and keeping everyone up. To be honest, our practices were a heck of a lot sharper and cleaner and injury free than in the past. I think as long as everyone is going hard, and staying off the legs, the injury issue is really minimized.

An unexpected benefit was our scout team actually benefited a lot from this approach too. They were less beat up each week and gave us a better look (not to mention played better in the jv/soph games).

RC48,

Would appreciate your comments when you get done using the technique, just for my own curiosity.
Best of luck with it, if that is what you want to do.

Coach Easton