Football Coaching Tools: Teaching the Three-Point Stance

Feet. Slide. Squeeze. Sink. Down. Guide your linemen into battle on the gridiron by using this five-step formula for a strong, balanced three-point stance.
For football coaches, teaching the proper stances is key to keeping your team agile and efficient. The three-point stance is a great tool for linemen to not only help their blocking capabilities, but also to help keep their balance when going up against their opponent. Chris Merritt of Heads Up Football has outlined a detailed five-step progression that you can use this football season to help get your players into a proper three-point stance.
The first step to the progression is “Feet.” This command will help set the foundation for your linemen by getting their stance to a proper width.
Following “Feet” is the “Slide” command, where your players will slide their right foot back and give the three-point stance its staggered look for added balance and more drive off that initial step.
In the third command, “Squeeze”, your football players will squeeze their shoulder blades together to spread their chest and get their head up.
The fourth command is “Sink”, in which your players should drop their hips into a sitting position and rest their forearms on their thighs. The Sink command is also the final step in getting into a two-point stance, another common football alignment used by linemen.
With the final command in the progression, “Down”, your linemen will place their hand out in front of them on the ground with their fingers angled to the side.
Ready your players for the trenches this season by using this five-step progression to the proper three-point stance. Follow these Pro Tips to get your linemen in line.
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[@jaydanroseboro4939]

Perfect video for showing young players how to get in a proper stance

[@utngt0080]

Hes explaining better than my football coach mine screams when it was my first day practicing he screamed at me for not doing it properly

[@Stzvey]

@@utngt0080 yea

[@zachary9197]

My knees got out and my feet spreed out, sucks.

[@JFKjr243]

This is very good also for workouts. The stance is perfect to perform both deadlift and barbell row!

[@JMIII09]

This helped me so much, thank you!

[@sebo1799]

2:13 ligit all you need from this 3 minute video

[@metalgames2532]

legit*

[@OH-SIX-SPIT]

This definitely helped

[@JustEntertainment225]

Thanks needed this for my son

[@clubbrrr4405]

thanks. playin football for the first time and this vid is perfect

[@andrewramirez8822]

Same

[@joshc1981]

I have a massive problem of being left handed but right footed. Can someone help another lineman out?

[@kungflu3975]

The best thing you can do is train your foot because I think your hands are more important as a linemean

[@eldermonkeee3822]

For the o line you don’t have to put weight on your arm so just use the right and for defense just use 4 point

[@GLO_Rudy]

ceo of feet slide squeeze and drop.

[@beewalk34]

Never made sense to me to have your feet flat in the 3 point stance, because it makes it very difficult to create any type of explosiveness and forces the athlete to stand straight up when coming out of the stance.

[@rayvon9614]

You’re suppose to use ur hips, legs, and ur lower back, not ur feet. You explode by extending ur 3 key points then you move ur feet after making contact.

[@tomasrivera2968]

@@rayvon9614 you would easily get beat by a swim or spin move by that logic

[@rayvon9614]

@@tomasrivera2968 I’m referring to guard position(which I play) no one will do a spin or swim on the inside, that just sets them up to get hooked

[@tomasrivera2968]

@@rayvon9614 me too… you shouldn’t be waiting for contact to move your feet. Slow feet don’t eat.

[@kirkskilling3249]

@@tomasrivera2968 facts

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[@raultrollz3721]

Who else hear because they got called out in practice😢

[@neneelifechronicles3911]

College?

[@gagesmith1741]

Middle school

[@Wock-xb7ud]

Btw in yo stance lead foward if u on dline so you can explode off the ball

[@anthony_herron5835]

2:13

[@javierflores2146]

Why does this freaking video stop at 21 seconds

[@MotionAve]

It dont

[@javierflores2146]

@@MotionAve it doesn't anymore but it only did to this video

[@Vincent-ce9ks]

It was probably just your connection

[@MariaAlvarado-mx2en]

Arrivedercci

[@gabeitch5102]

sqeEeze

[@velixaanayshenriquez8132]

I’m a girl 5’4 and I’m a lineman where my girls at?🧍🏽‍♀️

[@eldermonkeee3822]

😐

[@carderscarcello3536]

They need a wider stance