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What is a Tackle in American Football?

The term “tackle” has a strong meaning in American football. It’s not just a physical action - it’s a pivotal skill that determines the efficiency of the whole defense. Whether it’s a form tackle in close quarters or an open-field trial to stop the enemy - mastering the art of tackling requires not only technique but also the right methods and training equipment.

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The History of American Football in Europe

American football has grown significantly in Europe, especially over the past 50 years. It evolved from a niche sport to a game that is widely played and well-recognized. From small local clubs to professional, international leagues, the sport has recorded significant growth and milestones. Let's take a closer look at the history of American football in Europe, retracing its origins, the rise of various leagues and the current condition of the sport.

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Steady and Safe Growth: The Only Way to Build Long-Lasting Team Performance

In the competitive world of sports, the desire to achieve quick success often overshadows the more critical goal of building a strong, lasting foundation. For American football teams, this means emphasizing the importance of constant growth and focusing on small, incremental steps that lead to long-term success. This approach has a key characteristic that is integral to every win - it cultivates a culture of discipline and continuous improvement.

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How American Football Players Optimize Training and Recovery to Prevent Injury

American Football is a sport that requires both enormous amounts of physical effort and strategic mindset. To stay at the highest level of performance and avoid injury, athletes have to properly balance intensive training with effective recovery.

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The Future of Football: Is This Sport Too Dangerous and Violent?

American football has long been known for its exciting combination of sheer athleticism, strategy and wild power. However, the sport has also been met with growing concerns over the inherent dangers and injury risks to athletes. As the debate over football's future continues, it's essential to answer the questions: "Isn’t this sport too dangerous? Is there anything we can do to make it a little safer?"

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European League of Football: The Best League Outside America?

In recent years, the popularity of American Football has surged beyond the borders of the United States. The European League of Football (ELF) represents a new era for American Football on the old continent, with 17 teams vying for supremacy. As interest in the sport continues to grow and the level of competition intensifies, many are beginning to ask: Is the ELF the best league outside America?

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How to raise funds for new field equipemnt.

All teams in sports want to improve, as this is the main principle of sports in general – getting better. The aim of every organization is to have better results, but not every single one focuses on the same aspects. Some concentrate on the game, and the game only, some on the organizational improvements, thanks to which the game gets better in a more systematic manner, but the main goal of all teams out there is the same - to eventually get more wins… [READ MORE]

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Continuous strive to support perfection

With more than half of major European American football leagues already underway and GFL, BIG4 and CEFL opening within weeks it is hard not to be excited about football being back on the field for 2018. As preseasons are over for some of the teams that focus on facing their next opponents and having the best possible ...

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JAMBO Practice - Hand Shields and Drills

It is hard to imagine a modern training in any kind of sport without equipment. Great investment or a large space is not always essential for an effective training and comprehensive development. As a very complex sport American football draws training's inspirations from practically all sports' disciplines, from martial arts to tennis. The key to the great psycho-physical development of any athlete is the variety of different sports, techniques and training methods. Hand Shields are absolutely versatile and universal training aid and a good economic solution, which can be used during training, at any position in the American football...

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Tackling: essential skill in American Football

Developing effective and safe tackling skills is one of the major tasks of defensive coaches in American football. The most reliable help in this type of exercises is proper equipment, including Pop-up dummy and Tackle Donut. While Pop-ups have been known and used in European football for a long time as a successful complement of many exercises, Tackle Donut is slowly becoming popular outside the area of US, convincing more and more clubs and coaches

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JAMBO Athletic American Football Field Equipment - Recommended and Used by the Best - Part1

For past 4 years Jambo Athletic provided over 75 teams in 17 countries with professional american football field equipment. On course of time we have received so many nice words about the design, quality and customer service so we are honoured to share with you some feedback about JAMBO. At the same time we want to promise, that we want to constantly improve our brand to even better meet your expectations and take the game to the next level in Europe! ...

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Jambo Athletic: A European Brand with mission to positively impact the Game

... Jambo Athletic is the first and only European business which manufactures a full line of American football field equipment. Everything is designed, manufactured, and shipped in Europe. In one fell swoop, the teams of Europe now have access to all of their training equipment needs and they don’t have to pay for long distance shipping or import taxes to get it...

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The influence of American Football Training Equipment in European Programs

Faster, harder, farther or simply better than during the last season - such a motto appeals probably to every team before the beginning of preparations for league's struggles. Economic and technological races are the domain and the integral part of a modern sport. American football is not an exception here. Someone may perpend that a dozen years ago we also played football in Europe with balls and a few cones only and of course he is right but were we better than today? And if we are better now, then to what do we owe it?

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Jambo Athletic – Top Quality European Made Field Equipment

Not only is field equipment painfully expensive to purchase in the US, but shipping from the US oftentimes costs as much as the equipment itself. When you add on the cost of import taxes, which almost always exceed 25% of the combined cost of the product and shipping, it’s no wonder why so many teams have struggled to afford field equipment. Jambo Athletic - the company manufactures american football field equipment in Europe, shipping costs are exceptionally low and countries within the European Union don’t pay any import taxes.

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New Products, Same Quality!

Our mission is to provide the teams of Europe and beyond with access to top quality and affordable field equipment. 2017 has already been a huge year for us! First of all, we have greatly expanded our product line. Now, in addition to standard hand shields, stepover bags, tackle dummies, pop up dummies and blocking sleds, we are proud to offer tackle donuts, curved hand shields, jumbo hand shields, landing mats, heavy tackle dummies, goal post pads, equipment bags, and chain sets with down indicators. And this is only the beginning. We will soon have many additional items available, including field goal posts, field goal pads, tackle sleds, push/pull training sleds, and heavy tackle dummies, among other exciting items.

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Jambo Athletic Field Equipment in Germany

In early 2016, JAMBO received an inquiry regarding American Football field equipment – specifically Stepovers and football sleds – from Tim Miscovich of the Bad Homburg Sentinels. From the very beginning, the communication between us and the Sentinels was very positive. Tim knew exactly what equipment he needed, so we went straight to delivery phase. We shipped Jambo Athletic Stepovers earlier than the JAMBO Sled, as the production process for step overs is faster. We never want our partners to wait longer than necessary. After the JAMBO Stepovers arrived with the Sentinels, Tim contacted us again to show his appreciation for our equipment. Here is what he wrote...

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