How to Stutter Step to Avoid Football Tackle

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Sean Hobson, for Expert Village. What we're talking about now is trying to keep our running back or wide receiver from being tackled. One good move you can use in order to keep the defender off balance and keep from getting tackled is called the stutter step and go. What we want is either our running back or our defensive back to run up and wait until the defender gets close to him in an area where he can make a tackle, and then he's going to make a stutter step move. When he makes that move he wants to make sure to break down and stay balanced. He doesn't want to stutter step move while leaning forward or he's going to get him off balance. Make sure that when you make that stutter step move that you drop down with good balance, make the stutter step move, and which direction you stutter step to, get that defender to go one way and then you go the opposite way. So, it's going to be a stutter step, side step, and go out of the stutter step move. We're going to walk through it one time and then we'll do it at full speed so you can see what it looks like (video demo). Our running back or our receiver will come up, he's going to stutter step, he breaks down, he switches the football and now he's running to the outside where he got the defender to go one way. It's very hard when a defender is coming up hard and a guy stutter steps him, it's hard to reverse that field and make that tackle unless he's broken down good. Now we'll show you what it looks like quickly so you can see what this move looks like (video demo). You can see that it's just a real quick stutter step in order to get that defender off to one side and then he's going to blow past him."