 What's going on Dylan to be progressive soccer this video is a full-length soccer practice that I did With three young boys. I believe they're 12 or 13 years old tier one players in Calgary We did it in this tight space is actually it's actually a new business that I'm doing called home sports turf Where we are installing high quality sports specific turf in people's homes So they can turn their garage or their basement empty room any area that they want into their own training facility So we did the session in this tight little space. This was actually in one of these players garage Three players for including myself lots of little touches, but basically While we're watching this video. I just want to give you some ideas Some tips for training individually, but also if you're a coach just sharing some of my philosophies I'm just really freestyling this as I watch I'll give you some ideas that come to my head here We started the session with just some light touches. This is a warm-up here And I'm just playing one touch tight box or tight circle You just encourage you players to get on their toes get off the heels stay light on the toes and as the confidence and The repetitions come I want to pick up the pace move that ball quicker and quicker keep it on the ground Zip it faster and faster challenge their touch put a little more pace on the passes But so important that we're staying on the feet on the toes not flat-footed then throughout all Switch back from touches to dynamic exercise. I just think with the younger players It's better to go back and forth from technique to dynamics and mobility stuff If you're just doing 10 minutes of straight dynamic or mobility a lot of them lose focus So I find that way I keep some engage and they get more out of the warm-up exercises Once we did a couple exercises just going back to the ball here in one touch and Trying to pick up the pace now. I'm trying to challenge their touch Encourage them stay light on the toes as I said before so important get off the heels I want you as a player start catching yourself whenever you're on your heels You're not on your toes you're lunging for passes rather than quickly moving to get there because you're sharp with your footwork some more mobility exercises so important and When you're doing mobility exercises, don't do them just to do them do them with the purpose of Increasing your mobility do them with the purpose of increasing your flexibility of prolonging your career So many players just waste warm-up. I want you to take it seriously So we move forward and we went into a Game I call ass well, so what it's called excuse my language. That's what we call it Basically, if you screw up you get a letter So here Bilal screwed up he he got a letter a so when you get three errors in a row You're the loser and this game is called ass we get a kick it at your ass Excuse my language for the little kids, but that's the truth of what the game is called So he's up against the wall We all get one shot against him But if you miss if you miss the target, you're in the net So don't blast as hard as you can make sure you got a little bit of accuracy But a little fun for these guys to warm up with and after this we started to get into the session so Again, the way that game would be played is just like we're doing that warm-up is one touch But I can pass the ball to you with pace. It just has to be on the ground if it hits your foot It's playable so you just try to go one touch one touch And if someone screws up either by a misplaced pass two touches Hitting the ball in the air they get a letter and as I said at the end of it If you got three screw ups, you're against the wall getting the ball kicked up at you So I'm taking off my gear picking up the pace a bit for me I always like to join in on the sessions with the kids I might challenge them to do more work, but I'm always using as an opportunity to get touches for myself So just continuing the warm-up of it We did some more exercises, but now playing one touch in this tight space and instead of a stagnant just standing in a box Or square I want a little bit of movement and creativity some variety on the touches So passing and moving different little flicks around the corner playing right and left feet Don't just go in a circle try to find new space after you pass the ball and plain little combinations Moving the ball quicker keep it on the ground put more pace on the passes move that ball quicker Obviously, you got to you have to learn the weight of passing over time But in the beginning I would rather you pass the ball too hard than too weak finishing up with a few more mobility exercises So these were what you would call probably ballistic or dynamic stretching rather than static stretching I might do some stretches that look like Static stretches that you've seen but when it's warm up. It's always dynamic It's like a half-second stretch move to the other side go back and forth Just trying to warm up the muscles, but improve the mobility as I said take it seriously get something out of it And sadly, I'm more flexible than 14 year old boys That should not be happening when you're a youngest you should be most mobile But I want you to try to progress your mobility progress your flexibility for the rest of your career It'll make you a way better player way better athlete longer career So I'm gonna start with these guys a little bit of individual ball work some footwork drills And I just want them getting lots of touches, especially in this tight little space Just starting nice and simple like you've seen a hundred times those taps Left to right foot just light on the toes quick taps once you get the rhythm add the speed So with all these I'll ask the boys just start slow get your rhythm once you have confidence Build up the speed then between each one instead of just standing around resting I want balls up right away. I want juggled to 20 or 30 get your touches move on next one It's like a croquette a touch like any estus signature move People even know who that is right now. We're getting old But it's a like a big touch. So instead of those little tiny taps in between. I'm taking one big touch Lunging or skipping away from the defender's lunge And I'm stopping the ball on the other side and then continuing again do this drill juggle a little bit Move forward to the next drill I'm just rolling. I'm just rolling the ball with the toe But I really want to open up my body and actually look to the opposite side of the room And I want to move with it. I don't want these little touches just in front of me I actually want to think about real less realistic match touches. So Dragging the ball turning the body quickly moving the feet moving to the other side and always always working with both feet Please do this from a young age But whatever spot you're at right now if I tell you to pass the ball a hundred times to the right You do it a hundred times to the left definitely same for footwork as well juggling between and This is so seriously serious for me if you drop the ball I say every time you drop the ball when you're juggling you gave it away to the other team It's players just when they get tired They lose their focus and they they're easily juggled to a hundred when they're not tired But as soon as they're tired the focus goes and they can't even juggle to five So it's so important when you're tired I want you to focus on those simple things like keeping the ball moving to this next exercise It was just a little bit of a toe drag and Like a pullback to a toe drag so that first move, but we're just working on the same foot here really work on As always you're thinking about the touches, but I want light on the toes I want nice forward and I want you to open up the hips twist the hips actually look from one side of the room to the Other side of the room don't just keep the ball right in front of you think about manipulating the ball changing direction obviously got to work with both feet and And for all these these can apply it to players of all ages it doesn't have to be just young kids obviously this is great for them, but realistically most Senior men's league players that I play with they need to do these things as well because they don't have the basics down and We think as we get older We need to get away from the basics when really we just need to do the basics better and better And once we have a strong foundation then we can move into more complex drills But I would encourage anyone to maybe add something like this like a footwork routine to the beginning of your day 10-minute warm-up like it'll take you five minutes go through all those exercises do it every single day Get nice and sharp good skills good touch in both feet one more exercise I'm doing a croiff turn With a little touch in between and really focusing on quick feet With those touches in between So a lot of people do a croiff and it's more of actually like a chop like a Ronaldo chop for me I really like to Encourage players to curl the toe and kind of drag it cradle it behind you rather than chopping on the spot You're gonna get a better change of direction and with all changes direction Yes, we're focused on the technique where you're touching the ball But I really want you to focus on what you're doing with your legs bending the knees getting closer To the ground So all of these focus yes on those quick feet But I also want you to focus on the body movement if I can learn to control my body better I'm gonna have better changes direction And it's so much more than just what you do with the ball gonna move forward You're gonna do some passing drills These are drills that anyone could do all you need is a ball and a wall and these are great because you're getting tons of Repetitions if I'm doing a passing drill with my teammates I might only touch the ball every so often when I'm passing by myself especially in the beginning of my career This is where I need to be getting tons of repetitions right foot left foot I'm just starting super basic right foot left foot inside the foot really encouraging the boys to get light on your toes Don't be flat-footed and lazy Light on your toes body over the ball open up that foot make flush contact flexing the foot Especially on your weaker side Don't let it go limp Don't let it go weak and actually analyzing like how it feels to have good clean contact on a pass and What happens or how it feels when you don't focus as much especially on your weaker side You let your foot go a little a little limp or a little weak you can notice that and that's what I need you to do When you're practicing your analyzing technique don't just kick the ball and say Well, that was good. That was bad. Why and what did it feel like and how do I replicate that or how do I change that? Moving forward. I'm playing and I'm just telling the boys again get off the heels stay light on your toes But moving into the next next exercise I'm going to play with outside of my foot so passing with the inside and then I want to play with the outside of My foot so especially when I'm using the outside. I really want to flex But again here. I'm just talking about getting body over the ball. Don't be standing up leaning up straight lazy flat-footed Play that ball with the inside of foot. It's going to come across you I want you to hit it with the inside or sorry the outside of the other foot This is really important that you flex down to get your body over you can't be leaning back I want you to lean over the ball step towards your target and really flex especially when it's with the outside of the foot for me Outside of the foot is such a beautiful and beneficial skill to have and for some reason. I don't know why in North America Especially as I was growing up. They were encouraged kids like hey, don't use the outside of your foot Just if you're gonna pass pass with the inside of your foot. That's how you do it properly European football culture Latin America football culture They definitely encourage that incorporated and you can see in the style of play and the technical ability of the players So I'm always asking my players to develop the skill playing with the inside and Outside of the foot so really focus on your footwork if you're flat-footed and you're lazy with your movement It's gonna be difficult and you really got to move your feet if the passes and where you want it to be on The outside of what you got to move your feet so it gets there So focus again on the footwork as well as the quality of passes flexing the foot Nice and strong always playing with both feet and with all these drills. I'm just basically Going about 30 seconds But I'll vary it depending on how the boys are doing if it's a basic drill and they do it very easily I'm gonna let them go through that relatively quickly if they're struggling with it And I can see that the technique needs practice. I might break it down a few times take a few breaks Make them do it again and again and again until I'm satisfied So here you're gonna play two touch and you just play any two touch. I want Variation I want creativity with your touches. I want fast feet So I really want you to focus on getting rid of any pause between First touch and your pass is touch pass touch pass touch pass not touch with a half second delay Before you move your feet to get to the ball. How quickly can you receive and pass the ball without panicking? I'm not telling you to force or rush the play But I'm telling you to challenge yourself to play quicker remove any hesitation remove any downtime between first touch and Pass again variation always playing with both feet They'll do the same pattern again and again and again challenge yourself playing with the inside of the foot past and with the outside of Foot different variety playing quickly challenging yourself. These drills are great You can do them by yourself that can challenge your fitness and you can obviously play with variation in the beginning Variation of distances in the beginning plays super tight to the wall over time you can stretch the pace the last passing drill that I did was half turn so Playing a pass against the wall. I'm trying to receive that ball on a turn So I'm also I'm thinking about turning my body Before I actually touch the ball rather than touching the ball then turning my body you go the opposite way So I'm either trying to turn with my first touch or turn my body before the ball comes to me quickly turn and Play the other way. This is one that the boys need to work on a bit more as you can see by some of these demonstrations and Please if you're if you're in the comments and you're giving these kids a hard time Stop commenting right now because you don't know where you're at and you don't know what their goals are Everyone just worry about themselves. They're happy to be in this video. So they're benefiting all of us But playing on the half turn and if you're a real baller You're gonna add a shoulder check before you play quick turn focus on what you're doing with the body I'm not receiving the ball and then turning the other way I'm receiving the ball with my body turned the opposite way moving forward into some more Partner drills some team passing dribbling drills first one was just a straight dribble So usually you do this over a little more space, but we're doing this in a tight area lots of quick touches I'm just dribbling across laying it off to my teammate. What I'm encouraging them to do is again be ready Don't be flat-footed be ready on your toes front foot not back foot and I want that first touch. I want you to run with the first touch Don't receive the ball then pick your body up and then move forward run with that first touch in the space Quick little touches in between moved into another drill here I'm just gonna put a little marker or a dummy in the middle of the area and basically same thing I still want that positive first touch But now I just want a little bit of skill and creativity in the middle have some fun with it again Don't do the same skill over and over and over again Don't always go to the same way if you're predictable and you're right-footed And I know all you do is cut to the right you become easy to defend you need the ability to go right and left It's okay if you have like two signature moves one to go right one to go left But you have to be able to go both ways you have to be able to finish with both feet So especially when you're doing these drills be honest with yourself say hey Am I just doing the same thing going the same way where am I practicing? Practice is the time to fail practice is the time to look stupid It's the time to try things to lose control of the ball You want to fail in practice so you don't fail in the games But if you're always doing what's easy what you've always done So no one else laughs at you or you don't make any mistakes in training Then you're never going to challenge yourself and progress to the next level So try different things go different ways be creative with your skills and your touches And if you're doing this just encourage players to have fun Obviously anytime there's an opportunity for players to dribble and to try some one-to-one skills They're usually having a blast And once again, so important that first touch as the ball comes to you got to run forward attack with that first touch Don't control the ball stand up. Okay. Now. I'm going to go. It's too slow I want you attacking with the first touch So in games you beat players with your first touch rather than using any skill at all moving forward doing some passing drills Just a simple two-touch pass receive pass follow your pass run into Run into the back of the line on the other side, but again simple skills five-yard pass You'd be shocked at how many players screw up these basic passes. So when you're doing these drills I really want you to focus on the quality even if there's no defenders You never give the ball away. The next step is a little give-and-go progression And we're just playing a little one-two combinations from one side to the other So the player in the middle is going to play a one-two. He'll go to the other side play a little one-two with that player passes off He goes and repeats again I would really like these passes to go back into the player rather than sideways or forward on a diagonal Which are usually easy passes to get intercepted and if you played back into the player you can put more pace on the passes And it's just way better for speed of play and it's better for ball retention and ball possession With all these drills is so important that we're doing the basics But the quality has to be there We think we can move on to like advanced drills when we can't even pass a ball over five yards So whenever we're doing the basics, don't overlook it. Don't think you're too good for it Take pride in every single pass every single first touch never give the ball away But obviously in training if you're pushing yourself sometimes you're gonna give the ball away It's about how you respond. So we just did a little bit of fun some dribbling at the end Honestly, I was just doing this video session to get some Clips because we're promoting this new product You can only get this if you're in Calgary, Alberta at the moment the home sports turf But if you are send me a message you'll come and hook you up. I did a few Few little other games with the boys, but these were all the clips that we took for this video I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, please Drop a comment below hit that thumbs up button. Make sure you're subscribed drop some comments Anything else going to be progressive soccer. Thanks so much for watching this video guys, and I'll talk to you You