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
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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