Hey guys.
This is Matt from Epic Soccer Training and
I want to take you through some soccer training
drills that you can do specifically designed
for dribbling.
A lot of times people overlook this.
It's very important to get dribbling because
not only are you getting foundational skills,
you're getting dribbling skills but you want
to be able to have great touch and anything
with dribbling is going to help you with your
first touch as well because you're going to
be used to staying on your feet, used to the
ball always being around you no matter what
situation you're in.
So a lot of dribbling drills can actually
take the ball and kind of put it in an awkward
situation for you where you can kind of correct
that really quickly and what I mean is when
you make a bad touch in a dribbling drill
which will happen regardless of who you are,
it teaches you how to correct that really
quickly.
So when you're on the field and you make a
wrong touch, you can kind of fix that a lot
quicker than you would.
So a couple drills here.
Again, you need just some cones or when I
started out, I used like T-shirts but it will
work, anything.
So you can see here, I just kind of have – these
are smaller.
I would usually make them bigger but just
for this video, I want to show you.
So again, start with one foot first.
Most of you guys are right-footed so again,
just kind of work your way with quick touches
in and out so you're working on your quick
touches and then obviously stay on your feet.
You kind of want to always stay on your toes
but again if you need to start out, sometimes
it's easier for people if they just have a
straight line rather than scattered.
So again, if you need that, just kind of work
your way through.
Again, it will hit the cone and then you're
going to have to kind of figure it out too.
But again if you want to actually stagger
these two, it's going to work for a lot better
cuts because you're going to have to take
sharper cuts when you go through.
You're going to have to really lunge.
So again, go through that.
That's a great one obviously.
Like I said, work with your – I would say
right foot first then work your way through
left foot and then work both feet at the same
time so not only are you cutting out and cutting
in but it's the same way so you can go really
quickly.
Another one that I did a lot of times and
again this was – when I first started learning
how to train for soccer, nobody really did
individual soccer skills by themselves.
They would just go to practice and they thought,
“Well, that's great.
I don't know why I'm not starting,” or “I
don't know why I'm not like an all-American
player,” but it really comes down to how
bad you want it.
Do you want to spend the extra time working
on individual things that can help you out
and drastically set you apart from somebody
else or do you just want to do the minimum
and just go to soccer practice?
Some of you might want to do that but this
is going to help regardless.
So again, like this one, this kind of has
different agility movements.
Let me start down here.
So you can see.
Again, what you want to do is this is working
your way up and working on your cuts a little
bit.
So again, start with your right foot then
go around the cone when you get to the first
one and back through so you're going through.
Cut it back and you're going to learn to kind
of go pretty quick as well and then when you
get done, go back.
Give yourself 10, 15-second rests because
you always want to be working on your soccer
conditioning as well and then you can just
start working on your left foot as well just
like we did over here.
You're going through a cut.
So work your way through that.
Another one is a real quick touch and so I
will just start with these four cones here
again.
You can use these but I usually do it in a
bigger area.
Maybe where it's like 10 yards apart every
cone but this is kind of a small-sided scale
for you.
So what you want to do is you want to start
on one cone and just think small, light touches.
Stay light on your feet.
Work around the cone and then again on the
inside, work around the cone and again, you
want to keep the ball as close to the cone
as possible.
When you first start out, you might start
way out here but again when you start getting
better, you will start learning how to do
that pretty quickly.
So try not to get dizzy too but that one is
more designed for one leg and then working
on your right leg and then working on your
left leg.
So when you kind of intersperse all these
drills together is when you're going to start
getting thousands of touches and in no time
at all, you can get a thousand touches in
half an hour of practicing this type of stuff.
So again, if you want to check out how I kind
of became I guess the player that I was, it
was from individual skills.
It wasn't going to practice.
So again, I kind of explain that to people,
how I kind of went through that whole process
of taking my individual skills to another
level which you can watch on the video right
below on the link, right below this video.
Also I'm going to have a bunch more videos
come out so leave comments.
I will come by and answer those personally.
If you have any questions or wondering about
anything, I will be happy to answer them and
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and I will see you guys in the next video.
Take care.
