 In today's video, I want to give you some soccer tips on how to slide tackle in soccer. Now, I had one of my students ask me recently, how do I practice my slide tackling? Well, the truth is you can practice by yourself, but where you're really going to get your experience and understand when to do certain slide tackles or when to slide tackle in general is in games and in practices, okay? So first thing you want to take advantage of those rainy days. It's way easier to slide when you have a really nice pitch or it's really wet outside. Okay? So when it's raining, make sure you're getting in for those tackles. Now, when you're sliding, you're not going with the intent of hurting someone. You're going with the intent of winning the ball, keeping possession of the ball or defending, getting that ball out of danger. Okay? Now, what I want to say is you're watching professionals and their slide tackling all over the place. The reason they can do that so well is because either it's raining and that just makes it easier for everyone, but the pitches are so well kept. Okay? When you have a really short pitch, really nice grass and they do water the pitches before the games, they water the pitches at halftime to make sure that the ball moves around the pitch real nicely, but that also helps slide tackling, makes it a lot easier. Okay? So if you are practicing slide tackling, make sure, because you're not obviously going to have that ideal pristine pitch to practice on, make sure you've got something. So either you're practicing in your pants or you've got leggings or you've got your spandex and some high socks. Okay? Protect yourself. Because the last thing you want to do is go out and practice and you just cut up the whole side of your leg and then you can't shower for like a week. It's the worst. Okay? So make sure you've got something to protect yourself. Okay? So in this video, I want to give you three different types of slide tackles. Now, before we get into the technique of the slide tackle, when it comes to sliding, you have to be brave. Okay? You have to be willing to put your body on the line. And like I said in the beginning, I'm not going with the intent of hurting this guy. I'm going with the intent of getting this ball back. Okay? So saying that, let's get into these different techniques. Okay? So the first one is using your strong foot. You're going to kick the ball across your body, like so. Okay? So let's just put a couple of balls to the side. Okay? So the first one, you're going to slide in and you're going to kick the ball across your body like that. Okay? So let's do it again. And a great way to practice, just pass that ball in front of you and then sprint after it and then you're going to kick it out of the way. Okay? So what you can do is you can just have a bunch of balls and you can slide tackle with that technique. You kick them all out of a box and then get them all back and go again as quickly as you can. Okay? But again, so let's talk about the slide. So I'm coming down on my left side. If I'm slide tackling with my right foot, I'm coming down with my left side. And most of us will favor one side when it comes to sliding. If you can go both ways, that's great. I can't really, well, I guess I can, but I do it a bit differently on my left than on my right. Okay? So sliding with your right, you're coming down on this side, like this. Okay? And then that other foot's coming across. Okay? So you're sliding on this part of your leg here and then kicking across the ball. Okay? So let's do one more example. Okay? So sliding across, kicking the ball. Okay? So that's the first one. Second one you can do is with the outside of your foot. Okay? So I'm gonna do this on my left because I got my microphone here. Okay? So here, I'm coming and I'm sliding on the same side, but I'm kicking with the outside of my left foot. Okay? So it's like that with the outside of my left. Okay? So again, it's the intensity, it's the bravery. Throw yourself on the ground, try to slide on that side of your hip or the back of your leg. And then I'm getting my laces to the ball. Okay? Down here, laces to the ball. Kick like that. Let's do one. I didn't like that one, like that one a little sloppy. Let's go again. One more time. Okay, something like that. And I would like to get cleaner contact. But basically you wanna get in there, kick that away before the attacker gets it. Here, I'm gonna do one more just for myself. I just want a better contact on that. That's better. Something like that. Okay. Last slide tackle I want you to try. And this is my favorite because I'll get a couple balls here. Okay? Not only are you gonna win the ball, but you're gonna keep possession. Okay? So this one, it's kind of like that first one. I'm going on this side, I'm coming with my right foot, but instead of kicking the ball away, I'm gonna keep the ball. Okay, so I'm gonna go down slide. And instead of kicking it away, I'm actually going to keep the ball like that. Okay? So it's like this. So you slide and then you keep possession of the ball. Okay, let's do a couple. So I'll play the ball, sprint, slide, keep possession, then you can play your pass. Okay, so it's like a cradle. Just break it down for you slow. Okay, so coming in slide. And just keep it right there. Protect that ball. Okay, then you get up, play quickly. Let's do a couple more. Just like that. One more. Good. Okay, so there's three side tackles. Across your body with the inside of your foot, across your body with the outside of the foot, and then keeping possession of the ball. Okay, so like I said in the beginning, first comes down to this, comes down to this. Bravery, you have to have the attitude, like I'm going in, I'm going to win this ball. You got to be hard. You got to be willing to put your body on the line. And trust me, if you go in harder than the other player, he's the one getting hurt. You're not the one getting hurt, okay? But if he's going in for the slide tackle and you're going in with a little toe, you don't want to get dirty. You don't want to get down in there and fight for the ball, then you're the one getting hurt. Okay, but go in, think about those. Three different slide tackles inside of the foot, outside of the foot, and my favorite, keep possession of the ball. Ooh, tough work slide tackling. All right guys, thanks for watching this video. Please like, please comment below, post if you have any questions, if you have any tips that you want to share with other players watching this video. And most importantly, please share this video with your friends and teammates who want to improve their slide tackling. 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