How To Play Soccer: Ball Skill Drills

Female Speaker: This is fundamental passing, a drill that works on a technique we call it ball skills, just lacking the ankle. Doug is going to have some fast feet to stay in one spot and he is just going to knock the ball back to me. Right now he is using his instep to begin with. You want to work all parts of the foot and he just sends it back to me; getting in a little bit more rhythm, new step. Now we go to the inside of the foot. So this will be working our inside foot passing technique, locking the ankle, getting the toe up. That's the key; so you are going to get good pace on the ball, and in working all parts of the foot we are going to move to the outside of the foot, and it is probably the most difficult here and he is just putting a little bend on the ball using the outside of his foot. We want the ball to come in contact with all the parts of our foot.

And now we are going to add movement. We will go back to the inside of the foot. Doug is moving forward, I am moving backwards, and here we go. Nice and slowly and he is not going to back to waist height, getting your feel for the ball and now we switch; Doug tosses and I knock it, toe up, ankle locked, and we will keep it a little bit lower here. Now we go to the instep. Instep uses your shoe laces. We do use this part of the foot for passing also and now we go to the outside of the foot. That's it Doug, two more.


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