By Darin Wissner with Just A Game Events Youth tackle football is not as dangerous as the news labels it to be. I am not going to bore you with statistics, but the fact is, that your 8-year old son just doesn’t get hit hard enough to get concussions! Half the kids on defense don’t want to […]
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Maximizing Your Youth Flag Football Assessment with Next-Play.net
As a youth flag football administrator, there are a number of important tasks we have to get right for our season to be a success. Yet there is one critical, often under-served event that sets us up for a season full of fun, competitively balanced games: Assessment Day. Unlike some other leagues, every season we […]
Adult & Youth Flag Football Concussions: What to Know
Football concussions can be very serious, and many people are attributing the increasing rise of youth flag football to the growing safety concerns of full contact football in pads. But even in flag football, concussions can still happen and as a player or youth flag football coach, it’s imperative you know how to recognize a […]
Top 12 Traits of Youth Flag Football Coaches
Coaching kids is a pretty big deal. After all, you’ll be teaching them not only football, but teamwork, success, failure and life lessons all at the same time. We polled youth flag football parents on the top 12 traits they felt all youth football coaches should possess. Let us know what you think in the comments […]
