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Blind Ball - wide reciever football drills - blind ball

This blind ball wide reciever football drill is to help develop the players quickness in turning their body around to the ball.  The purpose of blind ball is to help emphasize getting head, hands, and shoulders around quickly to recieve the ball.

In this drill a the first player lins up on the ten yards away from the coach and his back if facing the coach.  The coach then will throw the ball towards the player and when the ball is halfway to the player the coach say “left or right”.  Then the player will have to quickly turn either to his left or right depending on the coaches signal and trying to catch the ball in his hands every time.

Coaching Points:  Emphasize quickness to turning head, hands, and shoulder quickly and focusing on catching the ball cleaning and looking into your hands.

Purpose

Teaching the proper form and first step. (Step and Hold by freezing…hince the drill “freeze drill)

Description

1. Straight ahead
   
   1. right leg - left arm
   2. left leg - right arm
2. 45° Step (fire step)
   
   1. Fire rt. - left arm
   2. Fire lt. - right arm
3. Pull - (lateral)
   
   1. Pull rt. - left arm
   2. Pull lt. - right arm
4. Crossover - (lateral) - Same arm & leg
   
   1. Crossover left leg - left arm
   2. Crossover right leg - right arm

What Coaches Should Stress

Stress correct form, arm action, and foot-placement. Remember that RB should always be in good stance, shouldn’t give away where he will step.

Have you ever noticed football training can look like a ballet lesson if you have the right piece of music go with it?

Well, even if this video is put to classic music and at times looks like a ballet.  You can really get some good ideas of the following to work on for soccer footwork:

• Look at the all the great stretching these guys do.
• Check out all the warm ups and even cool downs these athletes are doing
• Plyometrics and working running form through each and ever exercise
• Working out with Rubber bands
• All the footwork, cones, etc
• Even doing strength exercises…who would have thought soccer playerd did that
• Focusing on improving all the time!

This is a not only a great video clips put some some interesting music leaving you with an every entertaining soccer video. The song is “Tango Brilliante for orchestra”.

Nike’s second version, working on mainly the same things as the first.

Working with the gun slingers.

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