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Blind Ball - wide reciever football drills - blind ball

This blind ball wide reciever football drill is to help develop the players quickness in turning their body around to the ball.  The purpose of blind ball is to help emphasize getting head, hands, and shoulders around quickly to recieve the ball.

In this drill a the first player lins up on the ten yards away from the coach and his back if facing the coach.  The coach then will throw the ball towards the player and when the ball is halfway to the player the coach say “left or right”.  Then the player will have to quickly turn either to his left or right depending on the coaches signal and trying to catch the ball in his hands every time.

Coaching Points:  Emphasize quickness to turning head, hands, and shoulder quickly and focusing on catching the ball cleaning and looking into your hands.

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