 This soccer skills tutorial is different than most. I'm gonna give you three tips to help you improve your skills faster. Number one is an emphasis on drills over technique. And if you want to improve faster, I want you to look at it the other way. Put more emphasis on your technique than the actual drill. Let's say we want to improve our passing. So what do we do? We go and search for the most complex advanced drill because we think the harder the drill, the more it's gonna challenge my skills. But what you really need to focus on is the quality of the technique. We would write down, okay, I'm gonna do a hundred repetitions in 30 seconds and I'm gonna do that five times. We're focused more on the numbers. We're focused on the details of the drill rather than the detail in the technique. If I want to improve my passing, what I need is to practice better technique on a basic drill just like this and not worried about the number, worried about the quality in the technique, making the technique better every single time. So this leads me into my next point, which is analysis. You have to learn how to analyze what you're doing if you want to improve faster. Let's say you're doing a shooting drill. Most players will do the shooting drill. Let's say they miss the net and a lot of us, we have the tendency to miss shots in the exact same way. We get in the same situation and because, okay, I was trying to miss the net. Because of our body mechanics or just the way that we're used to shooting, we usually do the same thing. Tendency for a right footer, go across the body to the left. Tendency for a left footer, go across the right. But the problem is you make that mistake and you get a chance again and you keep making the same mistake and instead of thinking about why is that happening, actually analyzing it, we just get frustrated with ourselves and we move on to something else. So if you want to improve faster, you need to learn how to analyze what you're doing. I missed the net. The ball didn't do what I wanted to do. That's not the ball's fault. That's my fault. That's my technique's fault. So don't get mad at the ball. Don't get mad at yourself. Just analyze your technique. Obviously, look at my body positioning. I'm facing that way. That's why the ball went there. I followed through across my body. I didn't follow through towards the target. Stop and think about why does it keep doing that? So I know my tendency is to go there. Well, next time I have to fix that and I have to go there, I have to go straight. I have to change my technique. A tendency to pull it there to the left like I did before. What I'll do is I will not allow myself to go back over there. If anything, I say I can do anything else. You can hit the ball anywhere else. Just don't go there because you went there the last 10 times. I can shank it way up here if I need to but I can't keep making the same mistake. Make a different mistake and then I'll learn from it. But I'll compensate and then I'll usually end up going exactly where I want to go straight down the middle. The last tip to improve your skills faster is a very simple one, but it's the truth. You need more practice. You need more repetitions. We all want to improve, but some of us need to learn to be honest with ourselves. We're expecting to get results without actually putting in enough work. It takes consistency and it takes time. So number one, be patient. Realize this is long-term development. Whatever age you are right now, improvement doesn't stop. You're gonna have way more fun. If every time you step on the pitch, you feel better. You feel like you're a better player. You're making a bigger impact on the game. So realize it's a long-term development. It takes time to get better. What do you need to improve? Maybe it's your passing. Maybe it's your 1v1 skill. Maybe it's your shooting. Find a way to put that into your daily practice consistently. And if you do those things, you're consistent with your training. You learn how to analyze. Don't allow yourself to make the same mistakes. And you focus more on the technique rather than the complexity of the drill. You will improve your skills a lot faster.