Janine: He is trapping the ball between his lower leg and the ground or his foot and the ground. Right now, Doug’s using his foot, moving on to the outside of his foot, the outside smother. Your toe is up, he is varying the ball as soon as it contacts the ground. There is a timing element here. Your timing will improve with repetition.
Now we take this smother to a sitting position. Beginners, you can use a toss, we will do a little bit more advanced, it is a mini toss up, get up, smother the ball and I am just going to work the inside of both feet right now, ten repetitions, keeping it close, getting to it as soon as it comes off the ground. I am going to conditioning in here. It involves controlling it while you are juggling, playing it up at varying distances and then varying it.
This will be the last phase of the individual smother routine. When you send it up you can also knock it a little bit away so you have to move to get under it. Now he is knocking it a bit in front of him or away from him so he has to move to it and adding a little bit more distance on his mini punt to increase the challenge. Yes, get to it Doug. Well done, good stop.
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