We had our first practice with my now U10 girls and it was just a ton of fun. We fell back to some fundamental skills work and the girls really seemed to savor the challenge. Simple stuff like ticky-tocky dribbling, inside-outside dribbling. Doing this drills with your head up looking at your teammates and making sure they had their head up. Making a move (outside push followed by a chop back) against a cone. Faking out the cone. Doing a step over. Scrimmage, monkey in the middle, and a couple of other things.
Maybe were all just fresh after the summer break, but even though it was 100+ outside, we didn't really seem to notice because we were having too much fun.
-Bill
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Bill,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are running some great practice sessions. It is so key that our kids master all of the basics before moving on. As a coach of an older age group, it is very disappointing when players come in without their basic technical skills down. On the flip side, I love it when I get a player that has all his/her skills so we can move into more tactical training.
Bert,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback. It's so easy for me to get caught up in the tactics and forget about the skills. Lately I've been repeating to myself these 3 things: 1) First touch 2) Shielding 3) winning the 1 v 1 situation.