Sentence examples for tackling opponents from inspiring English sources

They went 13-5 in the Atlantic Sun, tackling opponents that were deeply familiar with their personnel.

However, in many instances, athletes, when executing plyometric skills, experience balance disturbances due to tackling opponents, cutting maneuvers, slippery turf, or strong winds.

This was seen in ball-carrying players sustaining direct impact from a tackling opponent directly on the shoulder and in tackled players falling onto the shoulder.

Linemen weighing 135 or 140 pounds tried futilely to block and tackle opponents who were 60 or 70 pounds heavier.

Penalties known as free kicks are assessed against players who tackle opponents above the shoulders, below the knees, or in the back.

If the head hits an object at an angle, it can glance off without much damage that's why football players are taught to tackle opponents with their heads raised.

That's right, more kids are playing the kind of football where you "tackle" opponents by grabbing a flag hanging from their waist rather than wrestling them to the ground.

The Harlequins flanker cuts a phlegmatic figure on the pitch most of the time, and tackles opponents all day long, but there have been a number of occasions (for club and country) when he has looked a little perplexed in those knife-edge moments of decision-making.

Like most successful, modern managers, he's a man of marginal gains and micro-details who has taught the World Cup winner Christoph Kramer to tackle opponents with his outside leg because, according to Kramer, "you're a faster by a 10th of a second that way" and watches DVDs of the opposition day and night.

Players, it seemed, felt fearless in their new helmets, and they weren't afraid to tackle opponents by charging right into them with the top of their heads.

Despite his great talents, he rarely tackled opponents and was not adept at heading the ball or using his left foot.