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An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the savoir-faire<\/a>, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your manly know-how week by week.<\/em><\/p>\n You may have reached a stage of life where pick-up football games are of the “touch” rather than tackle variety. But if you’re engaging in the full contact of the gritty gridiron, you’ll want to learn how to tackle like a pro. To help you with your D-Fence!, we put together this illustrated guide with advice from NFL player Mychal Kendricks. Follow the tips above to bring down your opponents safely and effectively. <\/p>\n Like this illustrated guide? Then you\u2019re going to love our book The Illustrated Art of Manliness<\/em><\/a>! Pick up a copy on Amazon<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An important part of manhood has always been about having the competence to be effective in the world \u2014 having the breadth of skills, the savoir-faire, to handle any situation you find yourself in. With that in mind, each Sunday we\u2019ll be republishing one of the illustrated guides from our archives, so you can hone your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":189090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,229,42381,42259],"tags":[42241],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-37157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-illustrated-guides","category-just-for-fun","category-skills","tag-sports"],"featured_image_urls":{"aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SOTW-Tackle-Like-a-Pro-1-1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SOTW-Tackle-Like-a-Pro-1-1-320x205.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37157"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189105,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37157\/revisions\/189105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37157"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=37157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}