‘The Akinfenwa school for kids who want to be beasts but arent yet beasts’ is not a catchy name. But it is a very effective school on teaching the next generation of Fullbacks. The first thing that needs to be taught to these up and coming prospects is the mental side of the game. Fullback isnt a position that most people grow up aspiring to be and as such there are a lot of kids very new to the position and what it entails. While many of them have experience at RB or OL, it’s the combination of both attitudes that it really what Adebayo tries to drill into the kids. You have to be wanting to pancake a defender at the same time as receiving a handoff and taking it to the house.
Once the lesson section is over, it’s onto the drills. The first drill is sprinting up and down the pitch after finishing a plate full of steak. If you want to be great, you have to be constantly eating and ready to go at any time. Next the kids are put through a WWE style wrestling match, if they can throw a defender out of the stadium, he wont be a problem for your QB for the rest of the game. The after eating some pancakes, proper pancake form is taught, including the correct level of taunting afterwards to not get a penalty, but still disrupt your opponents game.
Once the lesson section is over, it’s onto the drills. The first drill is sprinting up and down the pitch after finishing a plate full of steak. If you want to be great, you have to be constantly eating and ready to go at any time. Next the kids are put through a WWE style wrestling match, if they can throw a defender out of the stadium, he wont be a problem for your QB for the rest of the game. The after eating some pancakes, proper pancake form is taught, including the correct level of taunting afterwards to not get a penalty, but still disrupt your opponents game.