Use this quick drill to improve cutting and juking abilities to score more touchdowns. Simple speed & agility principles for players of any age. Great for coaches, parents, or players to facilitate.

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Hi everyone, this is Dwight Brazwell, youth flag football coach here in Castle Rock, Colorado. I have a quick drill for you, super simple to do, that will help with speed, agility, and juking. The cutting will help you get up the field and score that touchdown. A few quick principles before we get started: anytime that you do a drill, do it as if you are in the game. What that means is I'm not going to do anything halfway. That even means I wear my flags all the time when I'm practicing. I have a football in my hand whenever I'm practicing any running drills. These types of things help me remember what it feels like so that when I'm in the game, I don't have to think about it—it just happens automatically.

Another thing is, whenever I'm doing a drill, when I'm running from one cone to another, I want to use my arms. In a way, it kind of feels unnatural at first, but over time, if you watch running backs, you'll see as they move, they're moving their arms kind of wildly. So I want you to start practicing anytime you're doing a drill like the one I'm going to show you, I want you to start pumping your arms just like this.

Also, because we're going to be doing a cutting drill, another thing I want you to focus on is making sharp movements. What that means is when I run to this here, I'm not just going to loop around. Some of us, no matter how old we are, get a little lazy, and we just kind of loop. I don't want you to loop; I want you to hit that cone as if your life depends on it. Now watch—boom! I'm going to plant my foot, the foot that's closest to that cone, as hard as I can right in front of it. The reason I'm doing that is so that if a defender is running toward me, I can do this. What's going to happen? That defender goes this way—you've seen it so many times—the defender goes this way, and where do I go? I go the opposite way—boom! And then I run this way—boom! And I use, again, the foot that is closest to that cone. That's the one I plant, and then I move.

So those are a couple of quick principles. Whenever I'm holding a football, remember, I hold it with my finger on the trigger right here, right on the point, and then I tuck the other part right into this socket here so that I have it secured and tucked in.

Now, if you're a parent helping out, one good thing that you might want to do is stand on one of these cones as if you're a defender about to take their flags. They come towards you; you take that flag. So let's get started. Let me show you how this works, very simply. Now, when I start, I want to act as if I just got the handoff, so I want to do that breadbasket—right here we go—down, full speed, full speed, full speed, full speed, all the way through. And I come back, full speed, full speed, full speed, full speed, all the way through.

Now, you'll notice that I'm making a lot of noise out there. You know, anytime we practice, we want to make some noise, and we want to go full speed. So I don't want to do one of these—I don't want to be like—because when I'm out in the game, that's what my body will remember. So I want to make sure there's a defender there, I'm hitting it, that defender's gone. This quick little drill will help you score more touchdowns, make you win more games, and it's a heck of a lot of fun. We'll see you guys next time.