Freestyle Football Clinic
Football Trick & Skills Mastery
Overall Objective
Our freestyle program brings a fresh approach to the development of the whole child in an academic, social, emotional, spiritual and physical sense. It provides the foundation for a healthy lifestyle and promotes character building, co-operation and self-esteem.
Through freestyle, confidence and responsibility are developed and pupils are encouraged to make the most of their abilities. Boys and girls can play together – gender equality is emphasized.
Suitable For
Ages 8 and up
Duration
1-2 hours per session
Group Size
15-30 participants
Equipment
Footballs provided
Programme Description
This non-traditional, very agile, skillful physical activity creates passionate, energetic role models extolling the virtues of a healthy lifestyle. They discover new opportunities for fun and fitness – from traditional sports to fresh activities developed by our team of coaches. They enjoy a newfound confidence and vitality, while developing teamwork and leadership skills for later life.
Description of Each Session
The fundamentals are the classical motor skill development and is centered around the acquisition of a number of well defined 'fundamental movement skills'. Each session will cover simple patterns of agile, balanced and coordinated movement.
These are often classified as those that promote locomotion, object manipulation and stability and include:
They provide the foundation for the development of more complex, sport-specific skills.
Freestyle Football Tricks - Step-by-Step Guide
Some pointers & guide from: https://www.wikihow.com/Do-Freestyle-Football-Tricks
Commitment & Patience
Being a freestyler requires a lot of hard work and extremely a lot of patience, so make sure that is met.
Flexibility Training
Yoga is really helpful and stretching your legs and shoulders make you flexible and make it easier for you.
Practice Consistently
The key is practicing DO all the tricks for a month and after that you WILL be good at it in a month.
Master Juggling
Get a soccer ball (not pumped too hard) and start practicing juggling. The key to that is to try to keep the ball below your hip and put a backward spin on it. Juggling helps your ball control and the speed of your legs.
Practice tip: Practice juggling for 1 hour every day for about a month, most likely you are going to be an expert in juggling and you are able to do 100 keep-ups no sweat (if you practice).
Basic Trick: Stalling the Ball
After you master juggling you should start with basic freestyle tricks like stalling the ball which is holding the ball on your foot (pull the ball back as if you are about to start juggling, but instead balance it on your foot).
This move is a basic freestyle trick that leads up to other tricks. Once you master this trick you can work up to harder better tricks.
Around the World (ATW)
Another basic trick is Around the World (ATW) when you flick the ball up, go around it, and start juggling after you are done. This is not as easy as it sounds. For this trick you need a lot of speed and again a lot of patience.
You should begin with the motion of it, and try doing it as fast as possible. When you think you are ready, put a ball in the play.
Practice tip: Practice for an hour a day for about 2 months and you can master this. You can do this trick from juggling or from a stall. For juggling ATW, you should hit the ball from the right side of your foot for right-legged people, and from the left side for left-legged people.
Neck Stall
Another basic trick that will get you the oohs and aahs is the neck stall. Similar to foot stall you balance it on your neck. You can do this trick from a foot stall, you flick it up this time about half a meter higher than your head. Then you cushion the ball on your neck keeping your back straight on a 90 degree angle and keep your arm pointing back keeping your elbows straight.
Key technique: The key move in this trick is to cushion the ball on your neck, meaning you take the power of the ball away by going down at the same time as the ball only a bit slower than it so the power can be absorbed to your back/neck.
Practice tip: Practice this trick for about half an hour every day for 2 weeks and you can perfect it. This trick is much easier than ATW.
Link Tricks Together
After you have perfected these 3 tricks, step your game up and link them all together. For example you can begin by juggling then going to a foot stall, then do ATW, followed by another foot stall and then a neck stall.
If you are able to do all these three moves and keep the ball off the ground, you are going to be given respect!
