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The WTYF has set a goal to make football a safer game in Abilene. With rising concerns both locally and nationally about kids suffering from head injuries, Abilene has decided to take steps to ensure parents and players that they want to help reduce the risk of injury, and that starts with training coaches.
"We wanted to implement the Head's Up program, the same program that the NFL uses, to mentor our coaches into the proper way and technique of football," President of the WTYF Chris Gutierrez said, "What we want to do is make football safer than in the past."
And that is Head's Up Football's goal. They teach different safety techniques, from head's up tackling and keeping your head out of the tackle, to heat and hydration awareness.
"Concussion response and recognition, head and hydration, so there's a lot of different components that these coaches are getting trained on, and all of them are equally important to make football a safe game for kids to play," USA Football Master Trainer Roy Thompson said.
Thompson said that they recently saw stats on a study that looked at five Head's Up leagues versus five non head's up leagues, this is what they saw.
"It's like an 82% reduction in the amount of concussions in the Head's Up Football League, so it's pretty special to see that what we're doing is working," Thompson said.
And Gutierrez has one final message.
"Nothing you do these days is safe, but what we are trying to do is just make things safer for our children," Gutierrez said.
The WTYF plans to continue their partnership with u-s-a head's up football for as long as they can.
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"We wanted to implement the Head's Up program, the same program that the NFL uses, to mentor our coaches into the proper way and technique of football," President of the WTYF Chris Gutierrez said, "What we want to do is make football safer than in the past."
And that is Head's Up Football's goal. They teach different safety techniques, from head's up tackling and keeping your head out of the tackle, to heat and hydration awareness.
"Concussion response and recognition, head and hydration, so there's a lot of different components that these coaches are getting trained on, and all of them are equally important to make football a safe game for kids to play," USA Football Master Trainer Roy Thompson said.
Thompson said that they recently saw stats on a study that looked at five Head's Up leagues versus five non head's up leagues, this is what they saw.
"It's like an 82% reduction in the amount of concussions in the Head's Up Football League, so it's pretty special to see that what we're doing is working," Thompson said.
And Gutierrez has one final message.
"Nothing you do these days is safe, but what we are trying to do is just make things safer for our children," Gutierrez said.
The WTYF plans to continue their partnership with u-s-a head's up football for as long as they can.
More...