Greater Cleveland Football Association is a USA Heads Up Football organization. We take seriously the responsibility of teaching our players how to tackle with the safest possible technique. Heads Up Tackling deals with straight ahead tackling also known as profile tackling we teach how to take your head out of that tackle to protect yourself, these type of tackles account for about 10% of all tackles in a game. We teach the shoulder leverage tackling technique also known as the Hawk Tackling technique for angle tackles, this teaches players the proper technique to take their head out of the tackle on angle tackles which accounts for around 90% of tackles in the game. Watch the videos below to see these techniques and how we teach them.
We use tackle rings to teach these techniques, these are specialized equipment needed to give players the most realistic practice against dummies instead of live player to player contact which builds player confidence.
We use a progression model for teaching our tackling technique, the following video shows the progression that we utilize in teaching the fundamental techniques of tackling and blocking.