Hey guys.
Matt here from Epic Soccer Training.
I want to take you through the basics of how
to curve a soccer ball.
OK, guys.
Welcome to sunny California, North Hollywood.
We're in Glendale right now shooting this.
Beautiful weather out.
I wish the wind was going this way but it's
not.
So I'm going to show you how to curve a soccer
ball and how to kind of do it the right way.
When you think of curved soccer ball, you're
thinking more of just going left to right
or right to left.
We're going to get into more bending which
is kind of going to have that top spin as
well.
But the basics of how to curve a soccer ball
is simply like passing.
It's the same fundamental.
So you want to hit the ball with kind of like
right on this part of your foot and you kind
of want to bring your foot around.
So a normal pass, if I was passing you a normal
pass, would be just straight through the back
of the ball and forward.
When you're thinking of bending or curving
a ball, you're going to kind of come out and
you're going to hit on the outside of the
ball so you're going to put that little spin
on it.
And if you just touch the ball simply with
a normal pass, it's going to have the backspin
but when you curve it, it's going to kind
of have this little left to right or right
to left spin, whichever foot you are.
I'm a lefty so I'm going to show you a little
bit here.
So what I want to do with curving and again,
you can do some curving on the ground.
It's a little bit of a short field here so
bear with me but you're going to come like
onto the ball at kind of an angle so you want
to come at a 45-degree angle.
When I'm just simply passing the ball, I'm
coming on more straight.
But for a curve, you actually want to get
more of an angle.
See?
And it will have that curve on.
You're not going to see a whole lot of curve
because we're pretty close to the goal.
Let's see if I can kind of get in the air
a little bit.
See?
So you will see a little bit of curve again
and the wind is kind of going against us here
but that's the basics is you want to be able
to hit it with the inside of your foot on
the very, very outside of the ball and then
you want to bring your leg around.
You kind of want to bring your leg almost
across the body because that's what's going
to give it a little bit of curve here.
So again, it's going to be hard to tell but
you're going to see that spin and that's what's
going to be good.
So here we go, Chas.
See, he has got a little curve there or a
little bit of spin.
Again it's going to be almost impossible to
tell this quick unless I blast one.
So again, you're going to see that little
spin where it's going to kind of tuck it away.
When you're doing more bending, that's when
you're going to actually get more of that
curve that's going to go from up all the way
down right or if you're a righty, it's going
to go up and then down to the left which I'm
going to explain a lot about.
But a lot of the problems that people have
with how to curve a soccer ball is they're
not getting enough power on it and what they're
doing is they're actually hitting the ball
too far over on the outside of the ball where
you want to hit it here and you want to follow
through and push it.
So when you follow through and push it, it's
going to have that little kick.
Again when you're passing the ball, when you're
reaching a high level and playing professional
soccer like I did, you want to make sure that
you're actually getting a lot of speed on
the ball.
I would say that's one of the main things
where people mess up is when they get to higher
levels, they're not used to the quickness
of pace and part of the quickness of pace
is having very, very driven balls or having
some that have a lot of a I guess a lot of
power behind it.
So even if you're doing a simple pass, you
should put a little nice trap, Chas.
You should put a little bit of a power behind
it and the same is true with chipping and
the same is true with curving.
You want to make sure that you're not just
giving it like this little curve like that.
You actually want to make sure that you got
some pretty good pace on it.
So again, that's just kind of how and that
works for shots too because one of the things
that I like doing is I like bending the ball
away from the goalie.
Sixty-five percent of all goals are scored
by placing the ball.
It's something I teach in my course but you
don't always need to go crazy.
But a curve is good for that type of shot
or bending it around the side down the field
to your forward that's coming on to it.
So again, that's just the basics of how to
curve a soccer ball.
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