Hi Richard

Thanks a lot for your tips ; sure did save me a lot of time than looking up
.

Couple of questions on shooting 1. Should the leg swing as far as possible
for generating long shots and power.

In dead ball situations

2. How to make grounders - fast and moving very close to ground level

3. How to shoot waist level ; flat and hard shorts .

4. How to shoot high

5. How to avoid the ball from spinning too much in the air on shooting as
this creates friction for the ball.

You know I do mange to achieve some of the above ; but I never can predict
what kind of shot I would achieve when stepping up to kick the ball.



Look forward to your reply

Thanks
Soju


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Richard Bourley" <richard@...>
Reply-To: Good-Bad-Ugly@yahoogroups.com
To: <Good-Bad-Ugly@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [Good, Bad and Ugly (about Soccer)] How to improve soccer
skills
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:45:36 +0100

Hi
If it helps............

Trapping the ball..............If the ball is moving too quickly, take the
receiving foot back a foot or so......behind the body......the ball will
come to a stop much easier than trapping in line...................lay off
the ball first time by crunching the foot downwards behind the ball in a
slicing action........for younger boys I call this stamping on the
ant.....this is what it is similar to...............the side step take is
useful for playing the ball into space for yourself.....foot sideways on to
receive,,,,take ball with outstep as it arrives, this puts the ball to one
side of you if the opposing player is approaching directly.......reverse for
other side.---------shooting.......don't be afraid to make yourself
smaller......in pool you get right behing the cue to make the brain's job
easier.....same with football .....line up your body as tightly as possible
behind the ball.........if shooting from distance....put at least one arm
forward over the ball to move the centre of gravity forwards...this will
give more power to the shot.....keeping the head down as well.......(look
where the shot will go before striking)......often the hardest place for a
goalkeeper to get to is right next to his shins, so practise
this..........Dribbling, around cones is as good as any excercise.......make
sure to use the outside of the foot wherever possible as you need to keep
the body between the ball and the opposing player....this is only possible
if you can use both instep and outstep equally when dribbling
Hope this helps,,,,,,saves you looking stuff up......
R


-----Original Message-----
From: sojuskariah@... <sojuskariah@...>
To: Good-Bad-Ugly@yahoogroups.com <Good-Bad-Ugly@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 4:09 PM
Subject: [Good, Bad and Ugly (about Soccer)] How to improve soccer skills


>Hi
>
>Can anybody suggest where I can look for to learn some tips in
>
>1. How to shoot the ball
>2. How to dribble
>3. How to trap ; pass
>
>Basics of soccer I know . But I have started playing the game after
>15 years and am terribly out of touch
>
>Cheers
>Soju
>
>
>
>--- In Good-Bad-Ugly@y..., "Crunkleton, Roy" <roy.crunkleton@n...>
>wrote:
>> I don't think it's a matter of if they can handle it. They are very
>strong
>> and aggressive. And above average as far as ball handling skills.
>They just
>> seem to not have the confidence to do it in a game situation. During
>> practice under pressure they can hit the upper and lower 90s with no
>> problem. Just something psychological about the actual game. Like
>coach
>> Tarlton said they want to pass too much. Giving up some obvious
>goal scoring
>> opportunities.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tarleton, John [SMTP:JTarleton@A...]
>> Sent: 16 October 2001 11:09 AM
>> To: 'Good-Bad-Ugly@y...'
>> Subject: RE: [Good, Bad and Ugly (about Soccer)]
>Looking for
>> Goal-Scoring drills
>>
>> I have seen this phenomenon with girls teams all over the
>place.
>> The big
>> problem here is that they lack the aggression to finish. A
>lot of
>> teams will
>> pass the ball in front of the goal when they have a better
>chance
>> of
>> scoring than the receiver does. (sort of the hot potato in
>the box
>> type of
>> mentality) I have done a lot of work with having mine
>shooting under
>> pressure and shoot when they have a shot and not wait for that
>> perfect
>> touch. It takes a lot of time and patience and is not easy
>to break
>> them of
>> that habit.
>>
>> John Tarleton
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Saahil [mailto:arsenal_rule@y...]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 10:58 AM
>> To: Good-Bad-Ugly@y...
>> Subject: RE: [Good, Bad and Ugly (about
>> Soccer)]
>> Looking for Goal-Scoring drills
>>
>> Then don't play all out attack if they can't
>handle
>> it.
>>
>> --- "Crunkleton, Roy" <roy.crunkleton@n...>
>> wrote:
>> > John,
>> >
>> > I sure Hope I see the answer to your
>question on
>> > here My U14 girls have the
>> > same problem. Can move the ball up field
>against
>> > anyone, but when it comes
>> > time to pull the trigger! They always want
>to
>> > dribble just one more step and
>> > end up losing it. I run every one
>touch/first
>> touch
>> > drill I can find and
>> > just can't get them out of it. So maybe we
>can
>> both
>> > find our solution.
>> >
>> > Roy
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: jdux99@y...
>> [SMTP:jdux99@y...]
>> > Sent: 15 October 2001 5:29 PM
>> > To: Good-Bad-Ugly@y...
>> > Subject: [Good, Bad and Ugly
>(about
>> Soccer)]
>> > Looking for
>> > Goal-Scoring drills
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > I coach a U11 girls team. Our team
>is very
>> > offense-oriented but has
>> >
>> > difficulty finishing the goal. When
>we get
>> inside
>> > the penalty box
>> > our play becomes scattered and
>disorganized.
>> Our
>> > play
>> > approaches "chaos" in this zone. Can
>anyone
>> > recommend drills or
>> > techniques that will help us settle
>down and
>> focus
>> > on the play at
>> > hand?
>> >
>> > Thanks for the Help, John
>> >
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