Hey guys.
Matt here from Epic Soccer Training.
I want to take you through a lesson that's
basic.
It's how to kick a soccer ball.
OK.
So there's a few type of kicks that we can
do but I want to teach you kind of the three
basic fundamental kicks that everybody should
know.
You should be able to do them with your right
foot and your left foot as well.
So let me take you through some of those and
kind of give you the fundamentals of how to
do them properly.
You want to make sure that you actually have
the correct form because a lot of people always
ask me playing professional soccer, How did
you actually get that rocket hard shot?
I'm a pretty small guy.
And one of them is just having the correct
form and knowing where to actually kick the
ball and a lot of coaches don't really teach
you this.
So I want to kind of give you the basics of
how to do it.
So I'm going to go here and the first one
that we're going to go over is just a basic
pass and what you want to do with the pass,
you want to remember, is you're going to be
kicking with the inside of your foot.
Most of you are righty.
If you've been watching my videos, you know
I'm a lefty.
So again, what you want to do for you righties
is you want to kick the ball at the base of
your foot.
A lot of times, where people make the biggest
mistake is they kick the ball more on the
end here and that's what you want to do for
more of a chip which we will get to in a second.
But what you want to do is you want to hit
it at the base of your ankle because not only
is there more surface area but you have more
power because it's where your foot can actually
lock in place.
So what you want to do is you just want to
lock your ankle and you just kind of want
to drive through.
Don't just hit the ball and stop but get your
foot in and really drive through.
So let me show you one right here.
When I kick it to Chas is you want to put
your foot up, lock it and follow through and
it should just be a good one on the ground.
And again, we can get some loft too but we're
going to work on that one in the second one.
So here you go, Chas.
I can't wait to see the comments for this
guy.
OK.
So again, if you're going right-footed here,
so you guys can see, you're going to lock
your ankle up and you're just going to drive
through.
So I give it a nice, little a lot of torque,
a lot of quick so hit it at the base of your
ankle.
Here you go, Chas.
So again, that's one of your basic passes.
It's going to be very effective and it's going
to leave your teammate with an easier ball
to track.
Now the next one, here you go.
The next one I want to teach you is going
to be just a basic chip and that's where we're
going down the foot more to where you're getting
to it's like a golf motion.
You want to go underneath the ball and just
kind of sweep underneath and you want to do
that more with your toes.
So as I come through, you want to be on the
inside part of the ball whereas when we did
a pass, your foot is completely behind the
ball and the ankle.
See?
Your pass is going to be right there.
Your chip is going to just be kind of swiped
underneath like a golf club.
So again and one of the easiest ways to do
that is to actually take your foot and instead
of leaving it flat, you actually want to kind
of tilt your foot up a little bit and lean
back so you can really get under it kind of
like a golf club.
So again, I'm going to kind of do a quick
chip for you.
So again, when I do a chip, I like to chip
on the very inside of the ball and you want
to just lean back, drive through it and you
will get that little backspin.
And again, you know you have one of the better
chips.
That one had a little bit of curve which when
you want to start getting into bending a ball,
you're going to start seeing the spin go this
way.
Let me see the ball, Chas.
But until then, what you want to do to get
a nice ball let me actually see if I can chip
it up top is you want to just drive through
and just get a plain backspin.
See how it's just going basically backwards?
That's what you want to do.
So the third one that we want to do is going
to be a driven shot.
See that one too?
And what you want to do with the shot is OK,
so just to recap, we have the ball here.
That's a pass.
On the inside, that's more of that backwards
chip that we want to get.
When you're doing a regular shot and you want
to drive through it and get the most power
possible, what you want to do is plant your
foot a little bit out wide because what that's
going to do is when you come through because
you're going to want to stay and keep your
knee over top of the ball and you still want
to go more towards the inside of the ball.
And again when you get into the Epic Soccer
Training Course, I'm going to teach you absolutely
how to do this where you can get the hardest
shot that you possibly can.
But what you want to do is kick on the inside
of the ball and really drive through it.
So I'm just going to do a light one here so
you can see.
But lean forward.
Kick it on the inside of the ball and then
as you if you want to keep going up more,
just go up on the ball.
So that's just a light one right there but
you really want to stay back, lock your ankle.
Hit it more on the inside of your foot right
here because that's going to be the most power
and the most surface area as well.
Let me see that.
So again, I want you to work on those three
things.
Work on them with both feet.
That's a lot of the problem with most people
is they don't work on them with both feet.
Work on getting in the corners.
And again, so those are the three basics.
I'm going to have more tricks where you can
do different kicks, all that type of stuff
but until then, go through those and then
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