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>> Welcome everyone, it's Dave from Simply Soccer here.
Today I'm going to give you a little bit of advice on how you can dramatically increase
your ball control and dribbling ability on the ball with this one little simple trick
that I actually don't see many players doing. Now we all know the more touches on the ball
you get the more familiar you get with the ball.
It's like that with pretty much any sport. The more in basketball your dribble around
with the ball the more you get a feel for the ball.
In football, baseball, the more you practice catching the easier it becomes.
So in soccer it's not that much different in a sense that you want to get as many touches
on this ball as possible daily. Now how do we go about this?
Now, this is where you have to think outside the box and even me saying this is not going
to sound like it's that far outside the box, but I couldn't tell you, I've never met another
player besides myself so far that I've seen doing this.
Basically the simple trick is taking a ball everywhere you go and dribbling it around.
Now what I mean by this and something I did do a lot in my youth and still do to this
day, is when you go out somewhere like if you go shopping somewhere.
Take a ball with you. If you go walking outside somewhere, if you
pretty much go anywhere, have a ball at your feet.
I'm not saying you have to do drills and complicated moves and everything.
Just have it at your feet and as you walk just move around with it.
So if I was going to walk this way somewhere or whatever, I'd have the ball and just walk
with it that way. I would walk how I'd normally walk just with
the ball at my feet. Now why is this so helpful?
Well like I said earlier the more touches you get on the ball, the better.
So just throughout your day by doing that I'm going to get hundreds of more touches
on the ball and I was going to go to the store anyway, so why wouldn't I do that.
It's an advantage for me because I'm getting those touches.
I'm not really taking anymore time out of my day then I normally would to do it.
I'm just doing it with one of my normal activities. If you are a little shy and you think it's
going to look weird or something and you don't want to go out in public and do it.
At the very least dribble around your house. Now there's no excuse not to do this unless
maybe your parents tell you not to, but try and negotiate with them if you can, as long
as you are not breaking anything. I'm not saying kicking the ball around the
house, not what I'm saying at all. You're dribbling the ball.
So you get out of bed, you have the ball by the side of your bed and then whatever you
do early in the morning, just take the ball with you.
This seems like very simple advice. It is a little outside the box but it's very
helpful and you'll see how dramatically this can improve your dribbling ability.
It's something I used a lot in my youth, I would literally take the ball everywhere I
went. I would have it at school.
If you're not allowed a full size ball somewhere get one of those size one balls and dribble
that around and that will also help you. So that's the advice from me today guys.
If you implement it I promise you that you will increase your dribbling ability and just
take advantage of all the free time you have and all the opportunities you have to have
a ball at your feet. Soccer is one of those unique sports where
as long as you have the ball you can do something. It's really unique in that sense.
All you need is a ball. It's one of the reasons it's the world game
and the beautiful sport. All you need is a ball.
So just get a ball, take it wherever you go. Don't worry about what other people think.
Because as an end result you will become a better player at the end of the day.
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