Power Step Tackling Academy (PSTA) was created to train athletes of American Football the proper way to tackle – safely and efficiently – over a series of weekly training sessions with limited contact. At PSTA, we teach leverage based tackling, which keeps the athlete’s head out of the tackle and therefore, the athlete in the game. PSTA’s top priority is safety. In order to keep athletes on the field for as long as possible, and keep them playing the sport of football for as long as possible, safety has to be the priority. Football, like any sport, is becoming faster and faster with each passing year, which leaves very little time for a tackler to process multiple techniques they need to perform in order to make a safe and structured tackle. Statistics show that football athletes’ highest rates of injuries come at the beginning of the season when they are thrown into contact with little to no preparation. PSTA has timed its sessions to help reduce those chances by preparing the athletes for the start of their
team’s football season. PSTA’s motto is Own Your Leverage, Maintain Your Leverage, and Attack From Your Leverage. It does not matter if your leverage is inside or outside. We will teach leverage as left side or right side, and the tackler must own it. A tackler should know to never give up their leverage only to have the ball carrier gain an explosive play from the tackler’s previous leverage. This is maintaining your leverage. Finally, we will teach the tackler to attack from
their leverage with proven skills and techniques.

PSTA’s goal is an athlete to be able not only play just as fast as the ball carrier, but to react with confidence using muscle memory in preparation for impact. This leads to an attack of the ball carrier resulting in getting them on the ground as quickly as possible to end the play. With PSTA’s techniques, calisthenics, and drills, we believe the tackler’s muscle memory will grow over time to ensure the soundest tackle possible. With these skills and techniques learned at PSTA, we believe that not only will injuries to the tacklers themselves be reduced, but also injuries to the ball carrier. This promotes the safer, and none less aggressive, contact sport of American Football. PSTA is excited to help promote the safety of tackle football by teaching the
proper way to tackle with the most updated and tested techniques available. We want football, and its players, to thrive into the future.