What's up this week? This week's focus was two-touch passing. This drill is close to the same as last week's except instead of passing with only one kick, the player must settle with one touch and then pass the ball. For last week's competition we decided to pass the ball against a wall with one touch. We did this for three rounds and whoever was able to do one-touch passing the longest, without any mistakes, won that round. Whoever won the most rounds won that week's competition. This week we wanted to try something different. This week's competition? For this week's competition, we decided to create a competition based on the game "Hot Potato". We did this by having musical chairs music playing while we kicked the ball back and forth using two touches. Whenever the music would stop, whoever had the ball in their possession lost that round. We did five rounds of this but only used three rounds in the video so it wouldn't get too long and boring. We had to do this week's competition in the hallway of North Davie middle school due to rain and scheduling conflicts. Despite this, we had a great time and hope to our future competitions similar to this one. We agreed that having the competition structured more like a game made it more enjoyable and therefore easier to improve the skill. What's the point? The point of two-touch passing is similar to one-touch passing. Each help a player learn ball control and how to react fast during a game. Two-touch passing can be used in a game when a player receives a pass but needs to get rid of the ball quickly due to an on-coming defender or opposing player. This can also be a skill used to help ball control by forcing a player to make quick decisions about where to pass because of the limited amount of touches they get to use. Watch this week's video to see who wins!
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What's up this week? This week's focus was one-touch passing. This is a sometimes difficult drill that was suggested to us by our coaches. One-touch passing drills help soccer players learn and practice how to better maintain control of the ball. This drill is done by either passing a ball to another player or against a wall while only kicking it one time. This is difficult especially if a player is performing this drill against a wall. That's because if you do the drill against a wall, especially on a smooth surface, the ball can get too fast to keep up with and it becomes easy to lose control of it. How did this competition work? This week was a hard competition to plan at first because we didn't know exactly how to create a competition out of this simple drill. We eventually decided to do a three round competition where we each take turns passing the ball against the wall outside of North Davie middle school. We each counted how many times we passed the ball with one touch before we messed up in that round. Each round had a winner and the one who won the most rounds was the winner of this week's competition. What's the point of practicing this skill? One-touch passing is a skill that helps soccer players train themselves to be better with ball control. It does this by requiring a player to make a precise touch since they only have one chance to get it right. This skill can also be useful during a game when a player doesn't have time to make a lot of touches before passing due to an on-coming defender. Next week we will be working on two-touch passing which is a lot easier but just as important. Check out this week's video to find out who wins! What's going on this week? This week our original plan was to do two-touch passing drills, but due to the inability to meet up this week, we had to make a new plan. We have decided that we will be doing a competition based on who has the fastest mile time this week, which we are both very excited about (sarcasm). Although neither of us enjoys running (at all) it is an extremely important part of the sport. Soccer is truly 90% running and 10% everything else. Our coach has even suggested, at workouts, that all of the soccer players should try to run a mile every day to help us get in shape for the upcoming season. What are the rules? This week's competition rules are simple: each of us will run a mile, either on the treadmill or outside, as fast as we can. After running the mile we each have to take a picture of our time and distance as proof. After all of this, we will send our pictures to each other to determine who had the fastest time. This will determine the winner. This week's video will also be conducted differently from past weeks. It will have to be a lot shorter than usual and will probably be less interesting. Because of this, we decided that this would be a good week to discuss the progress we've been making in our project. Project Progress Report? We both feel that our project is on the right track to helping us reach our goal, but there are improvements we can make. For starters, we need to plan our competitions a little better. An example of our difficulties with planning is evident in last week's video where we struggled to find a way to set up a competition. Failures can be good things that can help you get better but we want to try to avoid a struggle like this in the future by setting up our competitions before filming day. Overall, we've enjoyed working to become better soccer players together and doing so in a competitive setting! Watch this week's video! What's up this week? This week our focus was target shooting. I (Ella) am not nearly as good at target shooting as Fuller Kate is, which makes sense because we play two different positions. Target shooting is a drill where one works on their aim when shooting the ball. This can be a very time-consuming and difficult skill to learn. Film process this week? This week we had a really hard time figuring out how to set up this competition and film it. We didn't have access to a goal (at least a goal that had a net) so there was a LOT of trial and error. First, we tried setting up cones on the field. A few cones were closer to where we were going to kick and a few were further away. The goal was to kick as many of the cones down as you could with only seven chances. Whoever had the most cones down would have one. We decided against this idea though because it felt more like a passing drill rather than a shooting drill. We then had the idea to stick cones in the fence that was beside the field. This was a great idea until we realized how hard it was to make the cones stay. We went through many ideas of how to accomplish our goal of creating a target shooting competition. We finally decided that we would stick one cone in the fence and the first to hit it would win the competition. This was still difficult because every time we missed the cone but hit the fence, the cone would fall but we eventually had a winner. What's the point of target shooting? This was a drill that was suggested by one of our soccer coaches because being an accurate shooter is one of the most important parts of soccer. It becomes very hard to score when you don't know how to aim very well, especially when going up against an experienced goalie. We hope you enjoy this week's video! |
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