How Do You Teach Flag Football Plays?
In flag football, the players wear light belts around their waists and on those belts are two long flags, one covering each hip. In order get an opponent down, you simply remove one of the flags from their hips. Any form of tackling or heavy physical contact is against the rules. Drawing plays up for flag football is much different than for regular tackle football. Since all the defenders have to do is rip a flag off, you want to design plays that keep ball carriers as far away from defenders as possible. Most games are 5 on 5. To teach a pitch run, follow these steps. A running back stands to the left, right or behind the quarterback. Pitches give the runner a further distance from the defenders. On a pitch right the quarterback hikes the football and turns to his right. The running back cuts to his right at an angle. The quarterback floats the ball in the runner’s direction and rolls out in front of the back and readies himself to block the oncoming defenders. The center, who snapped
