Leaving the defence behind!

Drill #4 is here, the last one of the individual dribbling drills.So make sure you like it.

I made up this drill a bit after I attended the London ''Win a pro-contract'' trials by Samsung. At the trials we were asked to do a similar drill and I was not satisfied by the result I got on it, so after the trials I made this progression of the drill to practice on.

Neymar dribbling past multiple defenders

The drill concentrates on beating a defender after a defender, again and again, the distances are varying, so you don't only practice at 1m or 2m or 1.5m etc. I think this drill has helped me a lot and in the beginning for me it was hard to perform it, but now its one of my favourites.

As always it's made on paint, respect my efforts haha

Drill #4

The drill is nothing out of this world, but as you can guess you need to cover it on full speed.
The cones are as many as you can decide, with a minimum of 10.
As you can see the space between the cones decreases as you move on to the middle and then increases again at the end.
I recommend beginning distance to be around 2 m and to decrease it by 20cm by each cone.


The rules are that you need to do a skill to beat the defender (cone)  and go around it, after that you move on to the next one, I'm not gonna lie, it can get frustrating especially when you do it at full speed, but in a game it would be useful for any position.

A good progression of the drill, like the one I said last time is trying to juggle past the cones and do an air skill after each one, for example Around the world or Elastico.


Difficulty Level: 9.5/10


Links to last drills:
Drill #1
Drill #2
Drill #3

''Confidence comes from discipline and training.''
-Robert Kiyosaki

 

Dribbling drill #1

Messi, Ronaldo, Bale, Suarez, Neymar, Hazard and many more footballers... what's in common in between them is dribbling, Messi has dribbled past almost twice as many players for the last 5 years then anyone else in La Liga, Hazard has the most successful dribbles for this season in the EPL and Suarez has the most attempted dribbles for last year's EPL season. All key players... Now I'm not saying dribbling is the only aspect of the game helping them but from the statistics a clear image is arising, hence my article on dribbling today.

I'm going to discuss a few ways I'm planning to start training ball control and technique these days, I will assume you are training mostly alone, but I do have drills that require a partner.

For this week I have chosen 4 drills to do alone and 1 with a partner to work on your dribbling soon I am going to write on defending, shooting & scoring, passing & crossing and also fitness drills.

Bale dribbling in a game for Wales

Drill #1

-The basics,
I think this is not really a drill rather then a repetition of the basic moves in football, nevertheless it's a great way to get quicker feet, improve ball control and that combined with creativity can produce miracles.

It's really just a video of a guy showing you what moves to do, I think if you spend 30/40 min. two days a week doing this drill you will almost immediately see results. Don't bother about the speed you execute the drill at, just try to get it right for a start.

Difficulty level: 6/10

I'll leave you with this drill to practice, I'm going to post the next drill tomorrow! Don't forget to subscribe, thank you.

I leave you with this quote from Bruce Lee:

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."