How to Go No-Huddle Liek the Pros With Your Youth Football Team

The key is using "wrist coaches" for your players.

Wrist Coaches are must for any team that is running a no- huddle offense. It's too hard and takes too much time away from your football practice to try and memorize a sequence of football plays or hand signals.

The wrist coach is an elastic band that has a clear plastic window in it and a slit to insert a piece of paper. On the piece of paper arrange your football plays by name and number using an 8 font. Laminate the piece of paper because if you don't the ink runs and the paper breaks up, it's a real mess. Do not let the players take the wrist coaches home, they get lsot that way, they stay in the equipment bag. Have a wrist band for every player and the coaching staff, they run about $8 each at most sporting goods stores.

We code our football plays from 0 to 9 in columns on the wrist band, One column is in red ink the other in black, so we have room for a total of 20 plays, some football plays can be on the card more than once. We use a voice method to signal the football plays in that correspond to a number and color in the grid. So if we cal out Red 3 it is play #3 in the red column. A simple code would be to give a three number sequence with one live number. If you called "red 139" and the second number was "live" the play would be "red 3".

It sounds a lot harder than it is, it's actualy quite simple to pull off even for kids as young as 6-8. Every one of my last 6 teams went no-huddle using this method and we had no problems making it work.

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