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The Proof is in the padding
The Proof is in the padding
The Proof is in the padding
No coach has ever changed jobs and not ordered new PowerDrives for his new team. Most training equipment has been around for dozens of years. The PowerDrive is different in practically every way including the outcome - it works! What better method of gauging the value of any product than the presence of repeat customers? How about 100% repeat customers. Actions speak louder than words. Lots of people say lots of things for lots of reasons, but when every coach to ever use a PowerDrive purchases new ones for his new team, words suddenly pale in comparison to action.
The best recommendation any manufacturer can have is its customers. We at PowerDrive Training Products urge you to contact any of the fine coaches who train their team with the PowerDrive and ask them about it. However, one disclaimer - if you play them regularly, they might want to keep the knowledge of the PowerDrive secret so as to maintain their advantage.
During the season
The Proof is in the padding
The Proof is in the padding
During the season The PowerDrive is the most realistic training tool available to reinforce power hip flexion. As a rule, athletes avoid using their hips. It is painful and tiring so if an athlete can find a way to avoid it, he will. Coaches use countless drills to train athletes to use the hips, yet it is a battle that few coaches ever win. As long as the athlete feels a more comfortable way to get the job done, as he tires, he will migrate to a more comfortable position. In this scenario, the athlete and the coach are locked in an endless battle from opposing sides.
The revolutionary improvement in training provided by the PowerDrive is that it isolates the hips into a power position with no way to migrate to a less productive position. Suddenly the coach and the athlete are on the same side, both working to achieve the same goal. By working in a hip-flexed power position to the point of exhaustion against the tremendous and realistic resistance presented by the PowerDrive, the athlete grows to become very comfortable and very strong in the power position.
The need for great hip strength is not exclusive to football. Every sport that involves running requires hip strength. A great 40 speed is dependent on the first 3 steps, and the only way to come out of the blocks strong is from the hips. You cannot raise up and be explosive. The difference between being thrown out at 2nd base or sliding in safe in baseball is the first 3 steps from 1st base. Wrestling, basketball, martial arts, tennis, handball, racquetball - all require strong and explosive hip strength. The PowerDrive makes better athletes.
In the off-season
The Proof is in the padding
In the off-season
Because you neither block or tackle the PowerDrive, it is available to train and strengthen perfect technique year round. Coaches know that it typically takes weeks of practice before the team becomes comfortable in a low, power position. Valuable time is spent devising and running drills to lower pad levels. After an off-season rolling the PowerDrive you will find that your team reports to camp ready to attack at from a lower pad level and with more strength and balance.
Game shape is no longer limited to the second half of the season. Despite a heavy dose of off-season conditioning, athletes still tire quickly in game conditions. The reason is that even with the best intentions in the off-season, it is nearly impossible to simulate the same conditions that are in place during a game - that is, a mix of full body effort along with full speed running. The PowerDrive provides full body effort to roll and can be combined with sprints to simulate game conditions.
Muscle memory
Head trauma prevention
In the off-season
When you practice perfect form, perfect form shows up on the field. When you practice poor form, poor form shows up and usually at the worst possible time - when the team is tired and the game is on the line in the fourth quarter. That is the reason building good muscle memory is critically important. Analyze the film in slow motion and you can plainly see the habits - good and bad - at the point of attack. Does the athlete stay in a low, power position? Or, does the athlete raise up? Leave his feet behind, or keep driving? Maintain good separation, or allow the arms to collapse and fail to maintain separation?
Winning form has may pieces. Traditional football drills and equipment may isolate some of the pieces, but not all of them. Without connecting all of the pieces, many fail to show up on the field. The PowerDrive is the only piece of football equipment that combines all of the pieces that make up winning form into one drill.
Head trauma prevention
Head trauma prevention
Head trauma prevention
Prior to the development of the PowerDrive as a training tool, the only method available to teach athletes proper technique at the point of attack was through repetitive, full-speed contact. Because the PowerDrive forces the user to sink the hips, extend the arms; push, lift, and replace the hands; and dynamically coordinate foot and hand movement; winning technique is built directly into muscle memory. In this way, the athlete's body learns proper technique without the repetitive head trauma.
The quality that sets the PowerDrive apart from other training equipment is that the athlete cannot "cheat" it. That is, as the athlete fatigues it becomes even more important to use proper technique. Like full speed contact, improper technique results in failure - the PowerDrive won't roll. Later, when the pads go on, the athlete will naturally execute the correct technique in the split second between hike and collision. PowerDrive trained athletes will demonstrate better technique, strength, and conditioning the very first day.
1. As the governing bodies that control practice hours for amateur athletes continue to reduce the time allotted for full speed contact, the PowerDrive will become more and more important as a means to teach, strengthen, and condition winning movement at the point of attack. Will rolling the PowerDrive ever replace full speed contact in practice? The answer is no. However, the PowerDrive is the only piece of training equipment available that precisely matches the movement necessary to stuff or control an opponent, thereby enabling young athletes to learn proper movement despite reduced full-speed contact.
When you practice perfect form, perfect form shows up on the field. When you practice poor form, poor form shows up and usually at the worst possible time - when the team is tired and the game is on the line in the fourth quarter. That is the reason building good muscle memory is critically important. Analyze the film in slow motion and you can plainly see the habits - good and bad - at the point of attack. Does the athlete stay in a low, power position? Or, does the athlete raise up? Leave his feet behind, or keep driving? Maintain good separation, or allow the arms to collapse and fail to maintain separation?
Winning form has may pieces. Traditional football drills and equipment may isolate some of the pieces, but not all of them. Without connecting all of the pieces, many fail to show up on the field. The PowerDrive is the only piece of football equipment that combines all of the pieces that make up winning form into one drill.
PowerDrive advantages
Head trauma prevention
Head trauma prevention
Countless football training drills and conditioning drills are available to train athletes to execute proper technique. But, let's face it, they all require constant supervision by a qualified coach to correct the athlete's movement on the go. When athletes tire, their technique usually gets sloppy thereby training poor technique. The PowerDrive is the only football training drill that is self-correcting. Without proper technique the PowerDrive does not roll. The more fatigued the athlete, the more disciplined the technique required. It is no wonder that the PowerDrive has been documented to improve pad level and control at the point of attack after only 2 weeks of use! With time, even greater improvements become obvious.
Versus a Tractor Tire - Prior to the development of the PowerDrive, flipping tractor tires was considered the latest innovation in training. Tractor tires are not only an eyesore and a potential breeding ground for mosquitoes, the movement necessary to flip them has little resemblance to the movement needed to stuff, move, and control an opponent on the field. The PowerDrive matches, teaches, strengthens, and conditions perfect technique. Until the rules change and the object of the game morphs from dominating an opponent to flipping their "planked" bodies end over end, the PowerDrive will be an infinitely better choice for training, strengthening, and conditioning.
Versus a Blocking Sled - The PowerDrive represents the next generation of football training equipment. Experienced coaches are familiar with the disadvantages of the traditional blocking sled. Metal parts can rust and break. The blocking sled is difficult to move from one practice facility to another. The base of a blocking sled can do severe damage to the ankle of a coach or athlete who wanders into its path. Athletes can use the sled improperly yet still move the sled. In this way the blocking sled has the potential to reinforce bad habits such as raising up, collapsing the arms, leaving the feet, and hunching forward (bending) at the back rather than at the hips.
The PowerDrive encompasses the useful aspects of a blocking sled such as conditioning and training forward movement without the disadvantages listed above. Furthermore, the PowerDrive teaches much more. In order to roll the PowerDrive the athlete must keep his center of gravity low – no raising up or it won’t budge. The arms must fully extend and coordinate with the feet to sustain movement. The hands must constantly attack, reposition, and repeat to roll the PowerDrive. In order to move the PowerDrive the athlete must maintain good body lean and push and lift simultaneously. As the athlete tires, he finds it even more necessary to maintain a low center of gravity in order to continue to move the PowerDrive - reinforcing better, not worse technique when the athlete tires. Finally, If the athlete fails to be tenacious in his attack and lets up even for a second the sand in the ballast tank will cause the PowerDrive will come to a complete stop. The movement necessary to roll the PowerDrive mimics exactly the movement necessary to move or control an opponent.
If you think about it, the blocking sled has changed very little since the days when offensive linemen were required to keep their hands in and block with their elbows and defensive linemen were taught to use their forearms to control blockers! Today’s athletes are required to do much more with their feet and hands in order to compete. The PowerDrive represents the new generation of training equipment that takes into account all of the modern demands made on today’s athletes.