Football Blocking Sleds: Traditional Stationary vs. The Colt

Traditional Blocking Sleds Do Not Prepare Players for Real Scrimmage Line Battles

Football sleds are a common tool for blocking and tackling drills. However, typical blocking sleds train only part of what players need to win in real games. Winning the leverage battle requires proper pad level and violent hand action—something a padded bag simply can't teach. 

When players learn from blocking sleds and try to apply a block or tackle in a real game, poor hand position and unfamiliarity with a moving, thinking opponent can unravel a defensive line or open a path straight to the quarterback. Traditional training equipment prepares your players to fight training dummies. Krausko’s training products prepare your players for game action.

The Colt Football Blocking Pad Becomes the Sled Dawg

The Colt's spring-adjusting arms revolutionized football training equipment by giving players a safe yet realistic blocking pad. Players can train proper hand technique and violent, full-speed hand motions without risk of injury. The Colt simulates reality. Football players constantly keep their arms up to maintain enough space to allow for movement in any direction. So does The Colt.

The Sled Dawg applies the Colt's innovations to football blocking sleds, allowing your players to train blocking and tackling with full force and violence against an opponent with arms. The Sled Dawg upgrades any standard LEV sled, instantly making the same drills more realistic. 

The Colt Football Blocking Pad Trains Your Team at Full Speed

Because targets do not react to the player, players often slow down to half-speed in practice in an effort to refine their technique. However, muscle memory cannot be trained at half speed.

A stationary target with no ability to adjust to a player’s movement does not exist on the football field. No player stands still.

The Colt blocking pad allows your team to practice with a mobile target. A coach—or player out of pads—holds the blocking pad and reacts naturally in training drills. This feature trains your lineman to expect an opponent to adjust to their movements. By combining the Sled Dwag and the Colt, Krausko offers coaches the ability to simulate real game conditions, violence, and speed for complex plays. See our recommended drills for example plays.

The Colt features arms with springs, simulating reality. Football players constantly keep their arms up to keep enough space to allow for movement in any direction.

Three handles on the back of the blocking pad allow a coach or player to simulate the position of any possible resister a blocker or rusher may face.

The Colt is the next step in the evolution of football training equipment. Invest in the best football blocking pads on the market, and win more games!

Wearing a jersey displaying X’s where your players must place their hands, The Colt Pro is the best blocking pad for sale today.

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