Excellent drills, very detailed videos. Useful site for my U15 boys team.
i want to know how to position the ball when i drag flick?
What are the best drills for coaching the drag flick technique? I coach a U13 representative team and have a couple of players that would be really keen to learn to do it effectively. Being a GK myself I am not the most skilled person at drag flicking.
I would like to teach some of my Ladies the 'slider' for next Season. Is there a step by step guide, or Master Class I could access. Thx. :-)
Hi,Out of curiousity, could you list down effective and efficient steps to learn drag-flicking and the drills to master it?
Hi just wondering the best way to teach drag flicks to young ladies. I've tried a following videos by make players and am not getting results. Any ideas? Thanks in advance Asked using Sportplan Mobile App
Hi,Out of curiousity, could you list down effective and efficient steps to learn drag-flicking and the drills to master it?
some of the players that i am coaching at the moment are having trouble with maintaing their wrist position during the flick. is there anything which could help overcome this problem?
Can you tell me the correct technique for a penalty flick? How you would put it into a training exercise?
I really struggle to make practice fun and useful for the GKs. My attention is naturally focussed on the outfield players, meaning most of the time I simply have drills finishing with a shot on goal to keep the GK involved. Pretty boring for them. Any ideas how I can involve them more? Thanks, Charlie
My team are constantly allowing oppositions to score from penalty corners we do 1st runner 2nd runner amp; 2 players on the post, what can I do.
Hi allI'm running a session on friday night (21 April 2017) and was hoping to move beyond stuff like deflection goals only, to compensate for not having any goalkeepers.Session theme is unfortunately on goalscoring too.Any tips/suggestions?I have some rebound nets (crazy catch), which might actually work brilliantly to simulate saves but any other ideas would be welcomed.Regards,Gary
Whenever i have the ball, and i'm moving up the field, everytime a defender comes and tries to take the ball, they always succed. This is a big problem of mine, i almost always lose the ball to a defender when i'm moving, and i usually can't recover (not that i literallyy CAN'T, the defender is just to far past me to be able for me to get the ball back)and get back the ball, and i feel really dumb because i'm a very talented player, but i'm alwayse afraid to take the ball mainly just because when i move fast and a defender comes, i try to lift the ball and it just doesn't work, and i normally can't pull the ball far enough either cause the grass is thik. PLEASSEEE help me adn give me some advice on recovering and better techniques on how to get by a defender while moving very quickly.
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