West Coast's players have come under fire this week for their apparent propensity to duck into tackles and stage for free kicks, but Sanderson said Tippett didn't do it enough.
"I love the way 'Tippo' plays, because he never plays for frees," Sanderson said.
"Quite often he gets his arms chopped, but he hasn't quite learned that art yet of, you see those guys who fling their bodies back or they pull an arm back, but he just plays the ball every time.
"The umpire should just pay them ... [but] sometimes he's probably got to learn how to make the umpires aware that he's getting scragged or taken high."
Sanderson's advice came ahead of Adelaide's match against his old side Geelong, and one of the most infamous recipients of free kicks in the game in Joel Selwood.
But Sanderson said Selwood was well within his right to manoeuvre for free kicks and said his players would simply have to tackle "lower and harder" to combat his techniques.
"We've just got to get lower than the opposition," he said.
"He's got the ability to be so hard at the contest that you just can't help it take [Selwood] high sometimes.
"You've seen the times when he gets tackled on the arm and then he just raises his arm, which then slips the arm up - that's just a great technique.
"I'm sure every club in the competition would be trying to learn that art."
But Sanderson wasn't so forgiving on players who duck their head and lead with it into a tackle, imploring umpires to stamp the practice out.
"It's been quite topical this week and the last few weeks with players' ability to lead with their head ... I think the umpires will fix it up this week anyway," he said.
"It's got enough press now to understand that if a player leads with his head, that you can't pay a free kick for him if he's going to seek the head high tackle.
Sanderson admitted tackling remained an area of concern for the Crows.
Adelaide has the worst free kicks for to against ratio in the AFL and the coach pointed to its tackling ability as a key explanation.
"The endeavor's there, but probably just the technique's not quite right yet," he said.
Facing the reigning premiers, Sanderson didn't hold back in suggesting the areas in which Geelong was vulnerable in 2012.
"Nowhere," he said.
"There's no obvious weakness at that football club, every position they're very strong.
"We'll have to be at our best to beat them."
With Shaun McKernan suspended, the Crows face a tough decision in regards to his replacement.
Sanderson said the club could look to go like-for-like by introducing either Tom Lynch or Josh Jenkins, but that they could also opt for another midfielder and play a smaller forward line.
Harry Thring covers Adelaide news forAFL.com.au. Follow him on Twitter: @AFL_Harry.
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