 what's up guys we're here at the local park and I figured I might as well walk you through an exercise that you guys can do on your own all you need is a soccer ball a few cones and a goal to shoot on so this is a really really good one for 1v1 situations if you want to practice the attacking side of it so what we'll do is we'll dribble through the cones in a specific way we'll get to the pole we'll go around the pole with a certain move and then we'll go for a finish and then we'll progress into a different scenario so that you guys can see how it looks kind of in a different situation the reason why we're doing it in the cones first is so that it's a little bit of a tighter space you really have to focus on your ball control before you look up do your move around the defender and then have a finish so let's get straight into it so the first move we're gonna do is the shoulder drop so what you want to do is while you're dribbling you're gonna drop your shoulder pretend like you're going in that direction and then you're gonna quickly change direction take the ball with the outside of the opposite foot and then go in a different direction so we're focusing on for this one is our change of direction and our change of speed have to be very very good so we also want to make sure that we sell it so what I mean by that is you have to really over exaggerate it in order to bait the defender thinking that you're going in one direction and then we quickly explode in the other so there's loads of variations to this exercise get creative and use as many moves or as many different types of moves as you want the variations that I'm gonna go over are the rollover and the scissors so let's show you how those work in this exercise so some things to focus on when you're doing the rollover you want to make sure you move as you drag the ball so don't start getting ahead of yourself because then you're gonna forget the ball second thing is we're gonna use the sole of our foot so the bottom part of our foot to drag it across our body and lastly what we want to do is don't do the move too early so when we get to the defender you don't want to be too close because if you're a little too close they're gonna be able to stab and take it away if you're a little bit too far they're gonna be able to read you because they have enough space to cut you off before you start making the movement the last variation is the scissors and of course if you have any variations feel free to add them in but this is how the scissors looks so for the scissors when we're going through the cones we're not focused so much on speed and how fast we do it as much as we are ball control we're in a very very tight space it's gonna be hard to get those movements across so we're just really focusing on can we keep the ball nice and close as we get past the cones and we're making our move to the actual defender that's when we really want to be able to be quick as fast as we can quick change of speed quick change of direction to get by and then we're off for a finish so now the progression is we don't have as much space we're not dribbling directly at the defender but instead we're gonna have our back to goal we're gonna be shielding the ball away from the defender how can we turn quickly face up do one of our moves and then have a finish so what we want to do for this progression we're starting off in a shielding position so we have the ball on one foot extended out so that the defender can't get to it we have our body in between us and the defender we're making sure we're feeling where the defender is our knees are slightly bent we're in a good position so that the defender can't unbalance us we're just shielding the ball temporarily waiting for the time to be able to turn and then face forward so there you go guys that's a quick exercise you can do if you want to come out here by yourself and work on some 1v1 situations so just a little recap the first one what we're doing is maybe we have a little bit of space we're dribbling forward at goal maybe we're dribbling through a few defenders and then we get to the last defender we're able to make our move quickly accelerate change direction and have a shot from the middle what I wanted to recreate from the second one is you got your back to goal maybe you just received it from a center mid but having our back to goal we're not very dangerous it's very very hard to get a good shot a good finish when we're turned and when we're away from goal so what we want to do is be able to turn quickly keep the ball nice and close to you turn and face forward look at the defender see if they're gonna stab or not if you have a little bit of space do your move quick change of acceleration change of pace and then we also have a finish in that one all right time to go home