Despite its name, "PRACTICE WITHOUT PADS" is useful any time during the season. But it will be especially useful in making your early-season or off-season practices productive. Instead of just getting the kids in shape, you can begin working on fundamentals!

It's also great if you're a coach who finds himself having to conduct practice without assistants.

It deals with subjects ranging from the organizational details that you must cover before you even start to practice, to pre-season workouts, and to the sort of things you might want to cover when you're wrapping things up at the end of practice. In between are drills dealing with flexibility, strength, form-running and agility, as well as the basics of proper blocking, tackling and ball-handling. It ends with numerous fun-type drills that you can use to build competitiveness and morale among your kids, and send them home wanting more.

And the best part of it is, although you will see players on the tape performing some of the drills while wearing helmets and pads, and although these drills are still plenty useful once you're allowed to hit, they are drills that you can do in the off-season, or in pre-season before you're allowed to have any contact! The video runs approximately 1-1/2 hours in length and sells for $39.95