Tackling Dummies: Playing Amateur Football Smarter
by Bobby Vernon
ASIN: B01JKZJRL8
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Written by a successful businessman, father, and high school football coach with nearly twenty years of experience playing and coaching this game, Tackling Dummies offers both an objective and insiders look at the game of football and identifies key problems with the sport and culture of amateur football. Both technical and common sense solutions are provided in an easy to understand and often hilarious way which will help every player, coach, and parent get the most from the game.
“This book focuses specifically on amateur football at the youth, high school, and college levels and Vernon writes about the need for change and lays out a realistic game plan for reform.”
Is American football safe enough for our kids to play? That is the question at the center of the many recent attacks on the sport. For decades, we’ve been teaching our kids to start playing tackle football earlier, hit harder, practice longer, and play like the pros. What if our current thinking about football coaching and culture was all wrong?
“The American public won't accept safer football at the expense of changing the essence of the sport. Creating "un-football" for safety's sake is a non-starter. Vernon walks this high wire of change successfully: the reforms he proposes won't ruin the game as we know it."
Over two million kids play youth football every year, often starting as young as four and five years old. Pee Wee League players are getting paid to play football. Football conditioning is a full-time endeavor. Big hits have replaced teaching sound tackling in American football and our kids are sustaining concussions and traumatic brain injuries (TBI’s) before they reach high school. High school coaches and players are spending more time than ever practicing and playing football which has practically become a year round sport. And worst of all, many young football players are sacrificing everything to reach the NFL...an almost impossible goal that isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. No wonder they’re not having any fun anymore.
So how do we fix it and save amateur football?
With real football stories from a number of amateur fields at all levels, concussion treatment and prevention protocols, descriptions and photos of safer and more effective tackling techniques, football tactics, and honest insights into college and NFL “careers”. This book is a must-have for any football fan, player, coach, or parent who wants to see better and safer coaching and tackling in American football.
Reviews:
"Coach Vernon does a great job of analyzing the entire world of amateur football from the youth level to major college. It is obvious that he has done the research and his analysis of the current state of the sport is spot on. This is a book that every parent and coach, at every level should read."
Rob Sgarlata, Head Football Coach, Georgetown University
I strongly recommend Tackling Dummies. It's a reasonable game plan for change, written by an insider who knows the game and issues associated with it. It's a book for literally anybody who cares about the sport."
Frank Fear, The Sports Column
"Author Bobby Vernon knows all too well the risks involved playing amateur football because he has been playing and coaching football for nearly 20 years. He is a coach down in Miami, Florida and is on a mission to educate parents and coaches on how to keep their boys safe on the field. His new book, Tackling Dummies: Playing Amateur Football Smarter, explains in detail how to make American football safe enough for kids to play. I found his training photos especially helpful.”
Cascia Talbert, Health Mom's Magazine