Kick2Kick.net » Individual http://www.kick2kick.net/afl the A to F to L of Australian Football Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:40:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Simple Backyard activities/ drills pt3 http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt3 http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt3#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:42:27 +0000 Jermayn http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt3 Not all drills and activities have to be practiced at football training or even at the local football oval during or after school and training. A lot can be done at home in the backyard like kick to kick with a mate, aiming at goals between trees or shrubs and much more. This is the last of three handy activities for you to start practicing in your backyard. Please subscribe to us (via email) to make sure you get them. The first week we concentrated on handballing through a gap to help your accuracy and the second week was on gathering the ball

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Kicking at objects

Kicking at objects to get your distance right
Kicking at objects to get your distance right
One of the fastest ways of moving the ball is by kicking and it is important that when you kick the ball, it reaches it desired target otherwise you are likely to turn the ball over. A good kicker who can hit his/ her targets is a valuable asset to the team. To kick at targets you can practice with friends but if your alone or in the backyard, try kicking at objects like a bin (the smaller the harder to hit). Try kicking at the target from a few meters away and then slowly increasing the distance, when comfortable with that. Kick at the target with your opposite non-dominate foot.

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]]> http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt3/feed/ Simple Backyard activities/ drills pt2 http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt2 http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt2#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:27:30 +0000 Jermayn http://www.kick2kick.net/afl/simple-backyard-activities-drills-pt2 Not all drills and activities have to be practiced at football training or even at the local football oval during or after school and training. A lot can be done at home in the backyard like kick to kick with a mate, aiming at goals between trees or shrubs and much more.

Next week we will release the last of three handy activities for you to start practicing in your backyard. Please subscribe to us (via email) to make sure you get them. The first week we concentrated on handballing through a gap to help your accuracy.

Gather rebounds for gathering below waist

Help gather the ball under your waist
Help gather the ball under your waist

This was my personal favourite activity to do in my backyard when I was a kid. I had a trampoline but it can be done using any wall, fence etc.

What you do is kick the ball against the wall, trampoline and then as it rebounds off you squat down to gather the ball. This is good as it helps replicate real game as the ball tends to spend more time along the ground than in the air.

Another benefit of gathering the ball quickly off the ground is that you have more time to ran away and not get tackled which allows you to either shoot for goals or pass off to a team mate quicker.

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Over the next three weeks we will release three handy activities for you to start practicing in your backyard. Please subscribe to us (via email) to make sure you get them.

Handball through a tyre/ car window

This handballing drill helps your accuracy
This handballing drill helps your accuracy

This skill was perfected by AFL great Graham ‘Polly’ Farmer who used to practice handballing the ball through an open car window. It can also be similarly used by aiming through other objects like hanging tyres, boxes and gaps through trees etc.

This activity will help improve your handball accuracy so when you are in a game you can be sure that your handball will reach its desired target.

Try aiming at the target (in the tyre) from one meter away and then when your comfortable with that, go two meters, then three meters etc. Then go back to one meter with your non dominate side.

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