My son is scared to get hit in Football
By ebusaf
@ebusaf (329)
United States
September 17, 2007 12:50pm CST
Ok...this is my son's first year playing tackle football. He's 7 years old and he played flag football for 2 years before this season. He's the fastest kid on his team...will block well, and hits hard...BUT, the coaches wants him to be running back, the only problem is, he's so scared to get hit, hat he doesn't run well during the game. In practice he looke like Jerome Bettis, they even gave him #36. But, when he gets in that game..boy he looks like like a whimp. How can I mentally prepare him for this...he got it physically, he fast as I don't know what.
2 responses
@Wasgilykitten (161)
• United States
17 Sep 07
Practice Pratice Pratice
and good luck
I have this friend that put her son in football he's like 8 years old. Everytime he gets tackled (not including football) He screams at the top of his lungs.
Does the coach have teams when they do practice?
Try having some kids over and practice football. Either that our you try practing with him act like your going to take him down (but you know take him down gently)
Good Luck
@ebusaf (329)
• United States
17 Sep 07
Yea, my husband and I had some of the neighbors kids by, they are a few years older, and they play for the same town team. It worked a little but not much. Yesterday,my husband and I practiced with him, and I took him down, and he was so embarrased. He didn't want to be tackled by MOM..no way. So I told him thats how he should feel when he running the ball, like I can't get tackled by no one. We'll see if this helps.
The coach has teams for the last 20 minutes of practice, and he keeps warning my son, that he'll give his running back position to someone else if he doesn't step up. But there's no one else as fast as him, so I think they're just going to have to keep working with him.
@Wasgilykitten (161)
• United States
17 Sep 07
yeah it's tough to be that age though, everyone turning to him
@MrNiceGuy (4141)
• United States
21 Sep 07
Explain that shying away from contact means TAKING the hit. If you love the contact and GIVE the hit, balls to the wall putting the shoulder down, he will knock people down and get hurt less.
