Top Tip Tuesday

Can you help teach my child to tackle?

We hear this a lot and also get a lot of requests for it when people book 121’s with us.

Truth is, you can show a child the technical side of how to tackle but they still need the mentality to actually go and do it.

Want the best piece of advice to help your child?

Praise.

Anytime they do anything that looks remotely like they’ve tried to tackle – praise them for it.

In fact, over-praise them!

Maybe even throw in a little treat if they do 3 tackles in 1 game.

Once they start to see that they receive positive comments from doing it, they’ll want to do it again.

It only takes a few times for them to realise that tackling doesn’t hurt. That’s when the mentality shift happens

We do this at our sessions anytime a player gets the ball from someone else.

It is easily done and really works with you stick at it.

You can use this for pretty much anything else that they aren’t currently doing.

Give it a try