Mastering Soccer Skills By Using Your Trainer
An accomplished soccer player has practiced and perfected his soccer skills to be able to control the ball and move, not just himself, but also the ball through the defending team.
If you have any hope at all of doing this, you will have to learn to control the ball effortlessly.
It is not magic.
It's practice, practice, and coaching drills.
There are many specific skills required to master manipulating the ball, and no one can learn them all at one time.
If you listen to your coach and learn how to perform how he instructs, you'll rise in dexterity, proficiency and soccer fitness.
He may start you with the "lunge" or "outside cut" where you advance in a forward direction but suddenly kick the ball to either the left or right, powering the ball through a defender.
Another skill that should be mastered is the "double touch", this requires tapping the ball with one foot and then the other in quick succession, which guides the ball around the defender.
The first touch is a fake out move meant to tease the defender into going in one direction and the second touch changes the ball's angle of movement from the defender, thereby, powering past him yet again.
The "scissors" is yet another fake out move you can use on a defender who's directly in front of you, although not too close.
While moving directly towards him you suddenly swing your foot up and over the ball, letting the defender think that's the direction of your move, but when that foot meets the ground, another foot directs the ball from the defender to the opposite direction.
It is called a "scissors" because that's the kind of movement that appears to occur to your legs as you perform the move crossing one leg in front of the other.
A more advanced soccer skill is called the "ice" move.
You allow the ball to arrive at an end as you move in front of it but instead of kicking it using the foot that's farthest forward, you tuck the second foot (from the back) and kick the ball from behind your other foot.
This will possess the effect of "freezing" the defender momentarily, which provides you time to rapidly power past him.
This should be performed rapidly and with an abrupt eruption of speed to get the ball past him.
If you have any hope at all of doing this, you will have to learn to control the ball effortlessly.
It is not magic.
It's practice, practice, and coaching drills.
There are many specific skills required to master manipulating the ball, and no one can learn them all at one time.
If you listen to your coach and learn how to perform how he instructs, you'll rise in dexterity, proficiency and soccer fitness.
He may start you with the "lunge" or "outside cut" where you advance in a forward direction but suddenly kick the ball to either the left or right, powering the ball through a defender.
Another skill that should be mastered is the "double touch", this requires tapping the ball with one foot and then the other in quick succession, which guides the ball around the defender.
The first touch is a fake out move meant to tease the defender into going in one direction and the second touch changes the ball's angle of movement from the defender, thereby, powering past him yet again.
The "scissors" is yet another fake out move you can use on a defender who's directly in front of you, although not too close.
While moving directly towards him you suddenly swing your foot up and over the ball, letting the defender think that's the direction of your move, but when that foot meets the ground, another foot directs the ball from the defender to the opposite direction.
It is called a "scissors" because that's the kind of movement that appears to occur to your legs as you perform the move crossing one leg in front of the other.
A more advanced soccer skill is called the "ice" move.
You allow the ball to arrive at an end as you move in front of it but instead of kicking it using the foot that's farthest forward, you tuck the second foot (from the back) and kick the ball from behind your other foot.
This will possess the effect of "freezing" the defender momentarily, which provides you time to rapidly power past him.
This should be performed rapidly and with an abrupt eruption of speed to get the ball past him.
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