BECOME A TACKLING MACHINE

I received this email from a member Aussie Rules Training over the weekend:

"...I've coached Senior Women for the last 5 years and tackling is one area I can't seem to nail in an organised drill. I can demonstrate the technique but wondered if there was anything structured I could use?..."

My quick initial response this:

"...Training tackling would fall under “specific skill craft” for mine and then would be trained as such via 1v1 for the most part and than we’re hoping that transfers to games but tackling is the most variable action in footy so it’s more about nailing the principles of tackling and then players can only really teach themselves the million different ways of doing that in games. This is a full post I think!..."

And here we are with a post containing videos and teaching points in regards to tackling and applying defensive pressure.

The 3 most common ways of tackling:

1. In congestion with both players having minimal momentum (mostly 1v1)
2. The defender chasing an attacker for a loose ball and the attacker gets there first (again mostly 1v1)
3. Open play (multiple attackers and defenders)

There's similar but different principles for each scenario.

In congestion the focus is on...

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