Aggressive Tackle ; Why It's Football Worst Enemy and Factors That Make Tackle Dodgeable

No small talk and pointless chitchat and we dive straight, nose first into the topic.

Factor that make tackle easily dodge-able

1.Opponent is stationary

You are moving , meaning you have head start in initial velocity provided your opponent in static position,thus he need to accelerate from zero velocity

time : 0 (before tackle)

your velocity : 1

opponent's velocity : 0

tackle time : 1 sec

(if you and the opponent have same acceleration)

your velocity : 2

opponent velocity : 1

2.Feint/ Fake movement

When feint is used, opponent will be stun for about have 0.5 seconds, thus his reaction time will be 0.5 seconds late to your dribbling

3.Fear Effect

Once you have successfully dribble multiple opponents multiple of times, you will set fear ,i.e decrease their confidence of stopping you. The will have negativity in their thinking and they will doubt themselves whether they can stop you or not. Even if the opponent has never face you while you dribbling, the fear from observing your unstoppable-ness pawning other players start to sink in their brain cortex , thus reducing the efficiency to defend about 50-80%.

4. Aggressive tackle

F=MA

Force is equal Mass time Acceleration

When using only the foot to steal the ball, you will only be using the mass of your foot.

When aggressive tackle is executed, the opponent use the whole body mass,thus to gaining greater force than using only the foot alone.

So aggressive tackle is more powerful than a normal one foot tackle (assuming the acceleration remain about the same).

Why is aggressive tackle so bad then? Isn't more force is better than less force?

Aggressive tackle is bad  because it's easily dodge-able. You can see it coming before it hit you because the whole body is move to produce greater force. (A foot is smaller in size compared to the size of the whole body)

As you use more mass in aggressive tackle, you will have greater inertia, thus you find it harder to stop your momentum and change direction, delaying your reaction time to dribbler next run.

Football/futsal is a collective fun game, if you use aggressive tackle

1. you will effectively destroy another player game,making it un-fun for him (unless that's your intention)

2. you might seriously injure that other person

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