 If you want to increase your shooting power and accuracy, these are some soccer shooting drills for beginners. I'm going to give you some soccer shooting drills for beginners, but before we get into the actual drills, I just want to talk about shooting technique. Give you a few things to think about when you're practicing because if you're just getting repetitions, yeah, that's great. Putting in time is great. But think about the technique. The more you focus on the technique, how to improve the technique, the better you'll get in a shorter period of time. So, basic shooting technique. Let's just focus on laces today. Trying to make strong contact with the center of the ball. Flexed foot, hard foot, toes down, ankle locked, leg flex, calf flex, quad flex, body tense for that half a second where you make contact. If you're limping anyway, if I hit this ball and my ankle goes limp like that, weak shot. If my leg is not nice and strong, weak shot. If my body, my upper body is out of control at all, weak shot. We're out of control shot. So, focus on when you're striking the ball. Tighten up. I'm not saying like flex and get really, really tense, but you have to control your body. Tighten everything up for that half a second where you make contact with the ball. Just focusing on tightening up the legs, tightening up the technique of the foot, pausing, keeping your upper body nice and still, not leaning back when you hit it. You don't lose control. You fall over one way. That's going to make your shot better right away. Okay, but come back to the foot technique. I'm trying to strike, depending on where I'm going. Hey, what's up? I hope you're finding this content helpful. Watch this all the way to the end if you want to find out which subscriber got this video's special shout out. Getting a straight shot and let's just focus on that today, hitting a straight shot with the laces. I'm trying to meet the center of the ball with a strong, flexed foot. As I said, if I hit there and then this ankle goes weak, my shot's going to have a lot of back spin. It's just going to go nice and do the keeper's hands, really soft shot. If you're keeping that flexed through the ball as you make contact, as you make contact, it's still flexed. Watch your foot, what it does after you hit the ball. Do you keep that ankle flexion, that leg flexion, through the ball? It's so important. After you make contact, push through the ball with that firm technique. Okay, the other thing I want to talk about today, and these are all the tips I'll give you for shooting today, is the follow through. If I want my shot to go straight, my foot, my body needs to go straight. If you hit a shot, and it goes off to the side, okay? It's either where you hit the ball. So if I hit the ball here, it's likely to go here. If I hit it here, it's likely to go there. But if I fall through, even if I hit it straight in the middle, but if I fall through across my body, that's where the shot's going to go. So analyze your fall through. Can you make it go straight? If you hit it straight, that ball will go straight. If you hit across, the ball will go across. Your technique will never lie to you. So every shot, when you're practicing, analyze your technique, see if you can do a little bit better each time. Let us do some soccer shooting drills. We're going to focus on everything we talked about with technique. I'm going to use a wall. Wall is extremely valuable when you're practicing shooting, especially for a beginner, unless you have 20 balls. If you have to hit it in the net, as I've said before, hit it in the net, run and get your ball, run and go back. Do it again. You're not getting as many repetitions as striking on the wall. It's back already. Another shot, another rep, more reps, better skills. So I'm going to use a wall. And the way I would start is take your shot, take as many touches as you need to set yourself for another shot. Okay, now when I'm shooting, especially as a beginner, this distance is not very far. And I am not focused on blasting the ball as hard as I can. What I want to do is get good technique on the ball every time. If I can make that ball go straight, hit the wall, come back to me, so I don't have to run everywhere, you're succeeding as a beginner because you're getting more repetitions. So don't worry about the power. The power comes from good technique. If you can improve your technique, your power will come naturally. You'll improve your power very quickly. So first one, take as many touches as you need to set yourself for a shot. Playing with both feet from the beginning. If I didn't like my strike on one side, I'll go again. Okay, and I want to follow through a bit more. I keep pulling. What I'm trying to fix in my head on my left is when I hit it, I'm pulling myself to the right. I'm not going forward. So oftentimes I'll pull that shot. What I need to practice is moving that way with my follow through forward, not dragging across. That's what I'm trying to fix there. First one, open touch. Second one, two touch. So take your shot. Good technique. Now you have one touch to set yourself for the next shot. One touch to get it out of your feet and strike it. So if my first touch is not good enough in a game, I'm not going to be able to get my shots off. That ball is coming to you. You want to score, but you're already thinking about shooting. You didn't even think about setting yourself. So when that ball is coming to you, focus on this touch. So important to get out of your feet so you can get the strike that you want on it. Okay. So two touch. The next shooting drill I'll do is one time shooting first time. So as that ball is coming to me, I don't have any touches to set it. I have to strike it and I have to make it go forward straight because if you're playing one time shots and you're not making the ball go straight, you're not going to be able to keep the rhythm. You don't have to run over there or run over there. So focus on hitting center of the ball. Contact right in the middle of the ball because if I hit it on the side, it's going to pull there. If I hit it on this side, it's going to pull there and I'm not going to be able to do this drill. Start with a small distance. Again, don't worry about power. Focus on good technique. The purer my technique is, the sharper my technique is, the better the power will be and this will transform, transfer to every style of shooting. Okay. So it seems like I'm not hitting the ball hard. I'm not. I'm just focusing on making good contact. So when I do want to add the power, I have that technique there, that firm foot through the center of the ball. Okay. The other thing with this one is extremely important is my footwork leading up to the shot. So when I strike the ball, if I'm flat footed here, to hit a one-timer with good technique, very difficult. So what I want to do when I'm playing one time is focus on my movement as much as my shot. Okay. Setting myself contact. Let's do a better demo. Okay. Contacts there. Fall throughs forward. Okay. If it bounces up on you, react to it. But it's the sharpness of the feet. It's the quickness of the feet. Getting where I need to be with my body on the ball. If you are not moving your feet quickly and you're lunging for shots, it's going to be difficult to have good shots. Another drill you can do is shooting after a skill or shooting off a dribble. So you could have a cone here, but let's say a little bit of skill. And now take a shot. Better, better demo than that, please. Okay. Go again. Little bit of skill. So dribbling. Change of direction. Getting your shot off. And we don't like pulling there, so I'm going to fix it again. There we go. Good. Last one I'll demo today is shooting off a turn. So a lot of times in a game, maybe you're in front of goal, playing as a striker, then that's this way. But I received the ball this way. Maybe I don't have anyone to lay the ball off to for them to take a shot. Or I just know ahead of time, I want to get into this space before that ball comes to me. So as that ball is coming, I have to practice turning striking because you'll find this is a different skill than just shooting straightforward. So it's coming off the turn. Control the body and strike. But I would start like that. Play here. Boom. And what will happen when you're doing that is the tendency is here overcompensate and you end up there. So really focus on getting your shot going straight towards the goal. So again, here, focus on it straight. Yes. 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