How to Hold the Football When Running

Series Summary

Modern football began in 1874 and has been a famed American sport for competitive teams of all ages. The object of the games is to advance the football into the opposing team’s end zone. This is called a touchdown. There are other ways to gain points in football including two-point conversions and field goals. The team with the most touchdowns or other points wins. There are many different skills a football player must possess including running, kicking, passing and blocking.

In this series of videos, you can learn advanced football exercises and moves from our expert. Positioning the ball is imperative to the success of certain plays and moves. Learn how to carry the football so that you will not drop it during the course of running a play. Learn certain maneuvers from our expert football player including back peddling and breaking free. Our expert expresses the importance of practicing football in these instructional videos. Learn how to read a play and how to make a move on a defensive back. Learn these moves and many more in our advanced football video series.

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Tim Gardener on ExpertVillage.com; we’re going to be going over some advanced techniques in football. Okay we’re going to be talking about ball positioning when you’re carrying. There are 4 major factors you need to remember when you’re talking about carrying the ball in open field or any area of the football field. The first thing is that if you’re in open field and you’re running is you do want to grip the ball with your hand, you do want it resting on your forearm, but you don’t want to have it out here, we call this holding it like a loaf of bread. It’s easy to knock out someone could come up from behind or in front and knock that out. You want to press it against your body so that you create a trap between your body and your arm so that anyway you hit it the ball can’t pop out. The next thing you want to remember is that whenever you’re going through a heavy area of traffic, that sometimes – all the time a good idea to have the ball like this. maybe you’re coming through the hole, you’ve just received the ball and there’s a lot of traffic there, you want to wrap the ball here it creates a complete blanket for the ball, you’ve got your whole body behind it, you’ve got both of your forearms wrapped here and a tight grip with your hands, there’s no way anybody is getting that out and if you fall you’re falling right on it and the ball isn’t going anywhere. "