Chris Rubio is an American

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trainer of

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s. He works with high school long snappers and evaluates them for

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programs. His Rubio's Long Snapping Camp is recognized as the longest-running long-snapping camp in the nation. Over the past 17 years, Rubio has helped over 1,000 long snappers play football in college and the

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. Rubio runs Long Snapping camps all around the US, with the premier event being held in Las Vegas, Nevada. His Las Vegas event has grown from about 15 participants in the mid-2000s to about 350 participants in 2018. During the

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, he used virtual training sessions as his main coaching tool. Rubio partners with Chris Sailer, who provides a similar service for

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s and punters with Chris Sailer Kicking. The two were teammates in college with the

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. He selects the participants for the

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and Polynesian Bowl each year. Rubio is a co-founder of the

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, given to the best Long Snapper at the Division I FBS level. Over the last 17 years, Rubio has helped over 1,000 high school and junior college long snappers. Alumni from Rubio’s camps include former and current NFL long snappers, such as

Cole Mazza Cole Joseph Frank Mazza (born February 14, 1995) is an American football long snapper for the Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League (USFL). He played college football at Alabama. College career Mazza was served as the starting lo ...

, Aaron Brewer, Jon Weeks, Taybor Pepper, Rick Lovato, Kameron Canaday, Reid Ferguson, Carson Tinker, Scott Daly, Camaron Cheeseman, Jon Cardona, and Christian Yount. Rubio has helped to coach and sculpt two long snappers that were drafted in the past two years, Blake Ferguson and Thomas Fletcher. One of Rubio's former students, Tanner Gibas, created a documentary about Rubio and his impact on the Long Snapping community. Recently, Rubio has been featured in an NFL Films show on Long Snapping (''Long Snapping Bros: A Closer Look at "the Mannings of Long Snapping"'' , NFL Films Presents), a full episode o
Freakonomics
and is set to hos
''The Rubio Method''
(a national tv show on men's health).

References

External links

RubioLongSnapping.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rubio, Chris Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American football long snappers UCLA Bruins football players Sportspeople from Covina, California Players of American football from Los Angeles County, California Coaches of American football from California