ADvantage Catdome: 2011 Fall Camp: Tackling Circuit

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

2011 Fall Camp: Tackling Circuit

Linfield puts in daily work as a defense on tackling in cultivating good feet, good leverage, good wrap, and good finishing and we're happy to bring you a taste of the 'Cats tackling circuit as I followed a group of LB's and DB's around the curcuit. We all know that tackling is one of the very base fundementals in the game of football. You can have the best defensive scheme in the world headed into a game but if you tackle poorly then you might as well phone in a victory for the other team.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I can't tell you how sick I am of dbs and others looking at the ground, arms in the air like a butterfly stroke, trying to tackle people. It's unbelievable how inept some of the pros are at tackling; August 31, 2011 at 10:57 AM
d1shima said...: Nice!

Perfect practice makes perfect...; August 31, 2011 at 8:49 PM

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Why "ADvantage Catdome"

I’ve had a number of people ask me why the blog is called ADvantage Catdome. So instead of repeating the explanation over and over, I thought I would just lay it out here.

Back in 1986 my father took me to my very first Linfield game, the final regular season game vs. Pacific (Linfield would roll the Boxers on their way to their 3rd NAIA title). I was 10 years old at the time and I can remember seeing these banners the pep squad/students have hung up on the fences around the Catdome. They read “We have the ADvantage”.

I pulled on my dad’s shirt and asked him what that meant. He pointed to the coaches box in the far back of Memorial stadium and said “You see that man there? That’s Coach Rustchman. He’s Linfield’s advantage.”

It wasn't until later that my dad told me Coach Rustchman’s first name was “Ad”. Get it now? Good. Go ‘Cats!