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Put the Atavus Tackle System at your fingertips, enabling your team to play more effective and safer football. Coaches can get access to select videos, drills, and core concepts who want to bring shoulder-led tacking technique to their teams.
ATAVUS EMPOWERS COACHES TO ADVANCE PLAYER DEVELOPMENT AND PRIORITIZE SAFETY WITH OUR DIGITAL TACKLING ACADEMY
We provide football coaches an online library of advanced coaching resources and certification to master proper technique and equip athletes with elite skills. By driving effective instruction and tackle mastery, we build trust and confidence that the next generation can chase their football dreams safely. Rather than bans, the path forward is better coaching and technology. Through elevated tackling education, Atavus enables coaches to lead a new era focused on athlete performance, safety, and potential.
IMPROVE TACKLE PERFORMANCE
INCREASE PLAYER SAFETY
GAIN A COMPETITIVE EDGE
Increase Player Safety
Reduce helmet-to-helmet contact by 58% by removing the head from the tackle; keeping your players on the field.
by removing the head from the tackle; keeping your players on the field.
Win More
Play better defense by limiting missed tackles and yards after contact to reduce points allowed per game by 8.7 points.
Play better defense by limiting missed tackles and yards after contact to reduce points allowed per game by 8.7 points
Develop Effective Tacklers
Teach shoulder-led tackling to develop tacklers that are 16% more effective when using shoulder-led tackling.
Teach shoulder-led tackling to develop tacklers that are 16% more effective when using shoulder-led tackling
Simplify Implementation
Access an extensive drill library and detailed tackle plans to help you bring the Atavus Tackle System to the field and provide the best path for player improvement.
by removing the head from the tackle; keeping your players on the field.
Where The Digital Tackling Academy Can Help You
Promote player safety and reduce head collisions
With shoulder-led tackling, you take the head out of the tackle. It significantly reduces potential injuries. It lets you instill safe tackling techniques in your players at the grassroots level while making your players and the game safer.
Gain That Competitive Edge Over Your Rivals
With DTA, you get detailed tackle plans for practice that provide the best path to help players learn the ATAVUS tackle system on the field. Also included is an extensive online drill library with videos, sheets, and coaching tips to make your training sessions as effective and efficient as possible.
Create a More Dominant Defense
With help from ATAVUS’ DTA, your players will play a better defensive game with fewer missed tackles and yards after contact. On average, ATAVUS-trained programs have reduced points allowed per game by 8.7 points.
Level Up Your
Tackling Coaching
Through our tackle mastery program, coaches access cutting-edge lessons, drills, and mentoring to become elite tackling teachers, driving development and injury prevention.
FEATURES
Drills designed to address
a tackler’s every need
Gain access to our extensive drill library that builds tackle skills from the ground up. Drills are available for every level of tackler and address actual game situations faced by every position.
Best-in-class Tackling
Certification
The Atavus Tackling Certification teaches the foundation for the Atavus Tackle System and focuses on supporting coaches to teach athletes how to execute proper movement and technique to play a safer and more effective game of football.
Add expertise to your
coaching staff
Atavus acts as an extension of your coaching staff, providing pre-made tackle plans designed by Atavus coaches to progressively challenge and improve your players’ tackling; simplifying implementation for you as a coach.
Go beyond technique and
drill with Tackle Talks
Powerful and in-depth sessions featuring Atavus coaches and guests that take you beyond our standard technique and drills to help maximize your understanding, implementation, and coaching of the Atavus Tackle System.
Our leading, strong & innovative COACHES
Kerry Carter
Chief Executive Officer
Former NFL/CFL Running Back Running Back
Terrence Wheatley
VP of Partnership Development
Former NFL Defensive Back
Scott Lawyer
Director of Analytics & Football Manager
Former NCAA D-I Linebacker
Jacob Swilley
Director of Operations
Former NCAA D-III Running back
Scott Laigo
Director of Partnership Development – West Coast
Former NCAA D-I Football Coach
Products & Pricing
Digital Tackling Academy
Included Resources
Learn the Atavus Tackle System introductory videos
A short video series introducing and explaining the core concepts behind Atavus’s shoulder-led tackling technique
Tackling Certification
Complete Atavus’s best-in-class tackling certification focused on supporting coaches to teach proper tackling technique and player a safer, more effective game of football.
Drill Library
Extensive drill library featuring over 40 technical, decision-making, and game-based drills tailored to team, position, and player needs
Drill Sheets & Videos
Drill sheets and videos for every drill to help you bring your learning to the practice field
Tackle Plans
Detailed tackle plans for practice that provide the best path to help players learn the Atavus Tackle System on the field.
Tackle Talks
Access to Atavus’s Tackle Talks webinar series that discusses coaching and tackling topics beyond the technique.
Included Resources
Starter
Edge
Learn the Atavus Tackle System introductory videos
A short video series introducing and explaining the core concepts behind Atavus’s shoulder-led tackling technique
1 Video
3 Videos
Tackling Certification
Complete Atavus’s best-in-class tackling certification focused on supporting coaches to teach proper tackling technique and player a safer, more effective game of football.
Drill Library
Extensive drill library featuring over 40 technical, decision-making, and game-based drills tailored to team, position, and player needs
6 Drills
40+ Drills
Drill Sheets & Videos
Drill sheets and videos for every drill to help you bring your learning to the practice field
6 Drills
40+ Drills
Tackle Plans
Detailed tackle plans for practice that provide the best path to help players learn the Atavus Tackle System on the field.
Tackle Talks
Access to Atavus’s Tackle Talks webinar series that discusses coaching and tackling topics beyond the technique.
1 Episode
3 Episode
Certification
- Create lasting improvement
- Increase player safety
- Develop confident tacklers
- Continue coach education and development
Program Assessment
- Tackle assessment for 3 games
- Tacke plans for the spring/summer
- Access to the Digital Tackling Academy
- Atavus tackling certification
Tacklytics
- Team, position, and player reports for every game
- Weekly tailored tackle plans
- 88 data points analyzed on every tackle
- Practice Film Assessments
TRUSTED BY THE BEST
TRUSTED BY THE BEST
Tacklytics partners
Organization Partnerships
TESTIMONIALS
"Atavus helped me improve my tackling and as a complete LB. They helped me become more aware of which side I was more dominant on and showed me my average yards after contact."
Shaq Thompson
"Atavus is working hard to develop ways that allow coaches to teach their players the appropriate way to tackle. Players and coaches need to be educated on ways to tackle.
Bobby Wagner
"I insist that all Lipscomb coaches are certified on the Atavus Tackling System. We’ve built their training into every practice and integrated
Trent Dilfer
“The data that Atavus provides is critical and versatile. In addition to its primary function as a safety and teaching tool, I use it as an evaluation tool, and it helps tell an important part of a player's tackling ability and production. It encompasses so much!”
Scott Pioli
Atavus has played a huge role in improving our defense over the past two seasons. We rely heavily on weekly analysis of our game film… Atavus helped to take our tackling efficiency and safety to new levels and helped us to win the 2023 Wisconsin Division 1 State Championship.
Keith Klestinski
More Than a Certification
When completing the Atavus Tackling Certification, coaches also receive access to our Digital Tackling Academy. Our Digital Tackling Academy puts the Atavus Tackle System at your fingertips, enabling your team to play more effective and safer football. Coaches can get access to select videos, drills, and core concepts with the new solutions for individual coaches who want to bring shoulder-led tackling technique to their teams.
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