What's up this week? This week, our focus was footwork. We did activities like toe taps, penguin walks, and L-cuts (footwork drills) to get ready for the mini-competition this week which will be held on Friday. What are toe taps, penguin walks, and L-cuts? Toes taps are exactly what they sound like. They are a footwork drill that requires a player to have the ball in front of them and they tap the top of the ball with each foot. You do this over and over again while trying to let the ball move as little as possible. Penguin walks are a drill where a player puts the ball between their feet and kicks it between their two feet. This almost looks like a penguin waddling, hence the name penguin walks. The last drill, L-cuts, is by far the hardest footwork drill we had to do. This drill requires a player to move their foot over the ball to move it behind them. Then the player uses that same foot to kick the ball to the side where their other foot is, making an "L" shape. This will all make way more sense in the video. Why Footwork? Footwork is a super important part of soccer because it deals with ball control. If a soccer player doesn't have good ball control, it makes it very easy for them to dribble too far ahead of themselves which enables the other team to easily steal the ball from them. Footwork and ball control can be very hard skills to learn which is why we want to get a head start before this soccer season begins. What are the competition rules? The rules of this first competition are simple and will be explained in the video also, but here's a quick run down.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/s8lFkACMVeo?feature=shared
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What's our project all about? Our Genius Hour project is to see which of the two of us can get in the best shape before the soccer season begins. Many athletes understand that during the off season we tend to not practice as much of our chosen sport as we should, which makes the first few practices of the new season miserable and very difficult. We want to change that by being prepared this season. We will achieve this goal by focusing on a specific skill set each week. For example, one week may be focused specifically on target shooting or foot work. After each week, we will hold a mini-challenge based on the focus of that week. Whoever wins the mini-challenge will receive a point. We will have updates about points and mini-challenges in the blog posts weekly and we will include weekly videos to reveal the winner of that challenge. Whoever has the most points at the end of the 12 week period wins the title of "Fittest on the Field". Our hope, win or lose, is to make progress in our skills as soccer players and to be ready when this season begins. See you on the field! What will be our focus this week? This week we will focus on the planning aspect of the project. We will get together a schedule of the skills we will be focusing on and plan what we are doing each week. We will also be setting up our YouTube channel where we will be posting the weekly challenges we have! Here is the Plan
Week 1: Planning Week 2: Footwork Week 3: Chest/Foot Volleys Week 4: Headers Week 5: Setting the Ball Off Punts Week 6: Target Shooting Week 7: Mile Time Week 8: 1 Touch Passing Week 9: Shot Off Pass Week 10: 2 Touch Passing Week 11: Dribbling Week 12: Wrapping Up We hope you enjoy watching our progress and finding out who wins! |
AuthorBoth of the authors are very competeitive so this will be interesting! Archives
December 2023
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