What's up this week? This week our focus was settling the ball on punts. A few weeks ago we did settling so this week will be essentially the same thing but instead of one of us throwing the ball, it will be punted. We had a special guest join us to do the punting. This celebrity guest was none other than Fuller Kate's little brother, Seger Holt. Shout-out to him for being so helpful in the process of making this week's video! How did this competition work? Setting up this competition was at first daunting because we were afraid that it would be hard to get good punts to settle every time. This problem was solved though because Seger was very consistent at punting. Fuller Kate and I (this is Ella by the way) agreed that if Seger so happens to give us a bad punt, we can just redo it. We also decided that each of us would get seven tries and whoever had the most successful settles out of seven was declared the winner. After the ball is punted, it can only bounce one time before we had to make first contact with it. Our first touch had to be a controlled one in order to settle the ball successfully. If there happened to be a tie, our original plan was to go into a rock, paper, scissors, shoot competition but Seger decided it would be best to just continue the way we had started until someone messed up. Why is settling the ball on punts important? Settling the ball on punts is important because when the goal keeper on the opposing team punts, you as a player have to know how to make a controlled first contact with the ball in order to gain possession. What this means is that when the ball is kicked super high in the air, like during a punt, it is incredibly difficult to make contact with the ball without it bouncing off of you and to someone else. This is why soccer players have to know how to control that first touch because once you have control you can settle and begin dribbling without the other team getting the ball. Hope you enjoy this week's video! Video Link: https://youtu.be/2iL78CPZ9nc?feature=shared
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colson
11/2/2023 10:32:35 am
I like the idea of this
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