 Let's talk about these skill moves. I know you guys love all the fancy tricks. If you've been following me for a while, you know what I always talk about. Get over the flash. Fancy tricks are cool, but only if they work in a game. The idea behind developing these skills is so you can beat players. If you're trying really complicated things and you're losing the ball every time, it doesn't matter how good your skills are. You slow the play down because you take way too many touches. It doesn't matter how good your skills are. So whenever I do skill videos, I want to show you real moves that actually work in games. So these are a few that I use. Some have a bit of flair. Some are super simple. I promise if you stick to them, you become confident going right and left. You're going to beat so many more players. So let's talk through it. I will try to remember all nine. Number one, I just did a body faint. So dribbling out of the defender, I'm just going to fake with my entire body and do a hard step. And I'm going to try to send his body control, send all his weight to this side. And then I'm going to attack the other space. So I'm dribbling out of him, hard cut, push into the other space. If I was going right, I would step left, push right. So there's a big difference between this and this. So I need to start selling my fakes, selling my fakes. Sometimes you might do a lot of skills, but it doesn't actually trick the defender. In order to really get him to shift his weight so you can create space over here, I need to put a little more emphasis on the movement. I need to step a bit harder, get a bit lower to ground, throw with my shoulders. I can even throw with my head, with my eyes. And also being down in this position is creating leverage here. I'm allowing myself, I'm helping myself explode, explode into the new space that I've created. So when you're doing your fakes, I want you to think about getting a little lower to the ground and actually trying to sell it with the shoulders, with the upper body movement, with the eyes, be more deceiving with your movements. So in the video I did, in the demonstration I did, a single, but I also did a double. And I mean you can go as many as you want, just don't get yourself in the habit of doing too much because you have to be aware of the defender. You might have already beat him, you might have already sold him with one movement. So if I take another one here, now I'm going back into the space that I already created over here. So look at the defender, if he's shifted, boom I can go. If he's staying with me, maybe I have to lose him again and I can come over here. So body faint, heart sell, quick explosion. Next is a, I'm calling it a cradle step over because instead of just putting my foot around the ball, instead of doing a normal step over, I'm actually starting the skill with this touch. And I call it a cradle, like I call this a cradle. Because I'm not actually touching it with the inside of my foot, I'm cradling it into that space. So cradle the touch. So I'm going to cradle, then I'm going to step over. So I'm basically faking this movement. I'm faking this, and I would explode there. But instead of exploding away, I would go into this space here. So again, with all these skills, I want you to practice right and left. Right, touch with the inside, step over. And again, where is my body positioning when I do the step over? Is it up here? Or is it down here? And then I can explode quickly. You have to have the ability to go both ways. And the ability to control your body. If I know you're a right footed player, and all you want to do is cut on your right, you're so easy to defend. Unless you have way more pace than me, unless you have way more skill, I want you to start being able to go both ways, right and left. So work on these skills with both feet. Next I did a multiple step over. In the video I was actually doing like a triple. But double step over. If you get caught up in it, you can go triple. Like you can do as many as you want, just think about what I said before. There's no point in doing skills if you've already created the space. Once you see the space, boom, explode. All these skills, it doesn't matter so much what you do with the ball. It's what you do with your movement after you create the space. How many times you've played with, maybe a teammate or against a guy, he doesn't have the best skills, but he beats so many players because he just explodes. He has like one touch and he just sprints with the ball. He creates the space and he sprints with it. Maybe he doesn't even do skills. He just sees the space and he goes. Keep it simple, create the space, go, attack the net, go forward with the ball. The fourth skill that I did was called a Ronaldo step over. So it's kind of two movements. It's roll, step. So it's like a scissors, a scissors to a step over. And I'm starting with this roll here. Out into space. If I went the other way, roll, step, come on. So start slow, get the movement and then it'll go. I want you to always look, a lot of times I do this, different skills, but it's the escaping touch afterwards. So if I come here and now this touches forward rather than side, I'm a lot more likely to get tackled. So I want you to think about that touch when you're trying to escape from someone. It's this touch. I'm getting away, I'm going like a triangle, right angle, rather than he puts his leg out and I just put my escaping touch there. So again, both feet, Ronaldo step over. After that I went into some simple moves and I put them in the middle because I know so many players are going to look at these and they're not as flashy as the other skills. So they're going to overlook them. But realistically, these are the most effective ones. These are the ones you can count on the most and they're going to help you beat the most amount of players. First was the croquette. So it's inside, inside. Now let's really break down the skill because there's much more to it than two touches. Number one, it's the direction of this touch. Just like I talked about with the escaping skip. I don't want to put that touch here because that's easy for him to tackle. I want to put it across my body and even more so, if I can put it backwards into myself, it's going to be much harder for the defender to reach the ball. Okay, so think of the direction of that touch and then also the speed and the force, the pace of that touch. If this touch is slow, it's easy for the defender to get the ball. If it's quick, he can still lunge for it but it's going to be too slow to get the ball. And also I'm really stretching my leg because I don't want to receive it here. I want to receive the ball here away from the defender. And all these skills, it's being able to do it while running with the ball. So you'll see me and a lot of good dribblers, when they're approaching the defender, it's these little quick touches. Because if this touch is heavy, now my time is off, my spacing is off, I can't make the move at the right time. Keep that ball close and then when it's time to go get away. Keeping it simple and effective, the next skill is just that skip. So remember we talked about the escaping touch. Well that is self, it's one of the best moves in the game. Watch Messi do it. Robin used to be so good at it for Bayern in so many years. I mean he's still so good at it. Wherever he's playing in the other ones, I forget the team. But dribbling at the defender, when he gets a little close to you, he's going to make that lunge, skipping there and then sprinting with the ball. Okay, so dribbling, skip forward. And you'll notice it's a bit of a jump. I'm not just like here, here, here. I'm actually jumping out of the tackle and moving forward with the ball. Forward and then with pace, attack. I want you guys to get in the habit of when you're dribbling, if there's space there, just sprint in a straight line towards the goal until someone tries to tackle you. You don't have to beat him and then beat him and then beat him and then beat him. All you have to do is sprint with the ball in a straight line until someone tries to close you down. Then you use your skills to escape. But if the space is there, don't hesitate. Don't drop with the ball when you should sprint. In that habit of being more directly to dribbling, you're going to be way more dangerous. Next skill, keeping on pace with those simple ones. This is another simple one, but extremely effective. I was just calling it a hard cut. So if I want to get into that space, I'm going to dribble here and I'm going to do a hard cut. Now it's the weight of that touch is so important. The direction of it and the weight of it. And my body movement. So think about beating players with fewer touches. What's more effective? Exactly, I'm going to fall on my face and I'm going to make a fool of myself. If I take too many unnecessary touches, more defenders are going to close me down. What's more effective? That or this? And now I'm already in the space. So a hard cut. So dribbling there, hard chop. And I want a better cut than that. Okay, so think about target change in direction. And like I said before, it's what you do after the cut. After I make this cut, am I coming up and then jogging or am I practicing my acceleration skills? Staying low and getting away. Be direct. The ability to go both ways. Accelerate after the movement. I'm not even talking about the technique of the skill. I'm talking about what you do, the mindset of dribbling. Next was a spin I called it. So dribbling at the defender. Basically here, I'm going to turn away from him and I'm going to try to make him get close to me. When he gets tight to me, I want to spin the opposite direction. Okay? Because once you do this, he thinks he's going to be able to get tight to you. And he might slow down, he might be a little lighter off the feet or a little heavier on his feet, I should say. And when he does that, he gets tight to you. Spin into the space that you created. Okay, so there's two ways to do it. And before, sorry, yeah, before we talk about the skill, this one especially, but all these movements, when you're doing that change of direction, you have to get low. Because if I'm trying to spin up here, I have no balance, I have no power, I have no acceleration. So here, here, can I just stay low on the ground, use your arms? So when he gets tight, I'm actually going to spin him. I'll put my hands on him, spin, give him a little, a little push in the opposite direction. Obviously not enough to get yourself in trouble as far as a foul. But put your hands on players, learn to protect yourself. So many players just play like this. You have to learn to get your hands up, use your hands, use your upper body as well. So two ways to do it. First was the outside cut, next was an inside cut, super low, hands up, protect yourself. Once he gets tight, make that spin. Now if you go to do this movement and you don't feel him coming close, or don't see him coming close, then you probably can't spin back into him. Okay, but I could turn on him and use a different skill to get past the defender. Last one that I wanted to show you was, it's a move that uses kind of different than running straight at a player. It's like you're drilling, you have one on your back, you're trying to lose them. Maybe you're on the wing or you're on the side. It's a fake back heel. So I'm basically faking this movement. There's a couple of different ways to do it. Okay, but I'm faking that I'm going to push the ball backwards and then I'm going to dribble into that space. So it's like we're both running together, I can't quite lose him. So I want to get him to stop running. I want him to be running with me and then think that I'm going backwards. Get that half stutter step and then you can create that inch of space to get past him. So a couple of ways. One would be, let me do it here for you to see. I could roll back and tap with the inside. I could just roll with the sole. Let me do that better on my left. Roll with the sole like that. I could go super fancy and something like that. Okay, but more so than the touch, it's selling it like we just did with that body faint. So I'm usually actually doing like a head fake like that. And then I would get past the defender. So think about those skills, but like I've talked about so many times throughout this video, it's not so much about the skill, it's what you do after the skill.