Long Snapping Lesson with a Lindenwood Lion

By: Long Snapping Coach Mike Famiglietti

In June 2014, I stumbled across a young long snapper named Andrew Bair on Facebook due to our mutual long snapping connections and being located at nearby colleges.

Andrew Bair is a great sized long snapper who recently finished his freshman year and hopes to earn even more playing time for Lindenwood University this fall! He snaps with a lot of force and power that definitely shows in his frame. On July 9, 2014 we met up for a long snapping lesson that will really help Andrew be able to start almost anywhere in the country

Long Snapping Lesson with Nick Clements

Today I had a long snapping lesson with Nick Clements who just recently got back with his tryout with the Nebraska Danger, an arena football team. Nick snapped very well and we will hopefully hear back from them soon.

Nick has decided that he not only wants to give arena football a try, but he wants to try and snap at the highest level he can. Nick has a long way to go but is very determined and works hard.

My first time meeting Nick was at camp this past December. During his charting, his snaps were averaging 1 second back to the punter at 15 yards and were all over the place. Obviously this is not ideal... Over the past month Nick and I have refined his snapping through long snapping lessons and he has now brought his snap time down to .88 seconds along with boosting his accuracy.

Ohio State Long Snapper Takes Long Snapping Lessons From Special Teams University

In January of 2011 I got a friend request from a long snapper at Ohio State University. This snapper was Tom Heffelfinger.

Tom is a very hard working long snapper who is undersized in stature, but not undersized in effort and ability. As soon as I accepted that request I started getting messages from him. Asking questions about long snapping, how to improve, how to become better.

Even though he was on the Ohio State football team, he was not the starter and very much wanted to get on the field. What started as tips here and there turned into full on virtual long snapping lessons.

Tom would send me film what felt like every week! Every clip of film he sent I could see how determined he was to get better. As you may know I would rather have a student that is the most determined and has a lot of heart over a student that just has raw talent. I know the long snapper with heart will work harder for what he wants.

Tom's form before we started working. The ball is beneath his head and he is really low with his hips.

Tom was obviously good enough of a long snapper to make it onto the Ohio State football team, but there were things I saw in his form that could be corrected.

Winter NCS Camp Hosted by Special Teams University and Husted Kicking

December 29th 2012 Brady Beeson and I partnered up Husted Kicking and Special Teams University to put on a National Camp Series evaluation camp in Vadnais Heights Minnesota.

The camp was held in the Vadnais Heights Dome which was an extremely nice facility. We had enough room for all 15 of our athletes to compete and learn. I had a total of 4 long snappers attend the portion of the clinic that I was coaching.

Special Teams University Long Snapping Lesson With Ross Markham

Tuesday Dec 18th I was able to meet up with one of my students Ross Markham. I first met Ross while I was a counselor at the UW-RF kicking, punting, and long snapping camp back in 2007.

We started doing private long snapping lessons in 2011 so that he could help his chances of making it on the football team for the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Ross is currently attending the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and was the backup long snapper his freshman year. We plan on changing that soon.

Working live snap, hold, kicks

Past Articles From Outside Sources about Kyle Stelter

Star Tribune - Sept 11th 2012

Tuesday a Game Decided by a Long Snapper (Just a little shout out here)

http://www.startribune.com/printarticle/?id=169310326


Star Tribune - Aug 24th 2012

Snap Decision Could Pay Off

http://m.startribune.com/?id=167267015

St. Paul Pioneers Website - Aug 2012

Stelter Goes Pro

http://www.pioneersfootball.org/news/2012/steltergoespro

JS Online - July 26th 2012

Special Teams University Will Hold a National Camp Series Event in Baldwin

http://www.jsonline.com/business/pressrelease/national-press-releases/special-teams-university-will-host-a-national-camp-series-ncs-evaluation-event-in-baldwin-wi-on-july-29-2012-according-to-camp-director-kyle-stelter-163862776.html

Scottacoulter.com - June 28th 2012

Special Teams U. Hosted a NCS Evaluation in New Richmond

http://scottacoulter.com/2012/06/special-teams-university-hosted-a-national-camp-series-ncs-evaluation-event-in-new-richmond-wi-on-june-10-2012-according-to-camp-director-kyle-stelter/

St. Paul Pioneers - Aug 2010

Pioneers Honor Their Best and Brightest

http://www.pioneersfootball.org/news/2010

Kickology Blog - Dec 5th 2010

Kyle Stelter: Acquisition and Acknowledgement of Accuracy

http://kickology.blogspot.com/2010/12/kyle-stelter-acquisition-and.html

Check out the Special Teams U website:

www.Special-Teams-University.com