 When you are performing a header it's extremely important that you keep your eyes on the ball. Most players close their eyes and hope the ball hits them, rather than focusing on exactly where they want to meet the ball with their head. It's near impossible to keep your eyes open at the point of contact, but do your best to focus on the ball until it meets your head. Make contact with your forehead, not the top of your head and definitely not on your nose. You want the ball to come flush off the center of your forehead. To produce power, you need to engage your whole body. An athletic stance and slight bend in your knees will allow you to have more balance and generate power, but the real power comes from using your total upper body. Bend your body back and then forward through the ball. You are not just using your head and neck muscles to create power, you are using your whole upper body snapping back and forward through the ball. To produce accuracy you need to guide the ball with your follow-through. Push the ball towards your target with your head and upper body. This is another reason it's so important to keep your eyes open when performing headers. Jumping headers follow the same principles. Keep your eyes on the ball, make contact with your forehead, snap your body back and through the ball, push the ball towards your target with your follow-through. Jumping headers are all about timing. You want to attack the ball and meet it at your highest point. If your timing is off, you'll either catch the ball too low or too high and you won't be able to direct the ball where you want it to go. Focus on your footwork. You want to be moving towards the ball rather than jumping from a standstill. If you need to take one or two steps back then a few quick steps forward as you leap in the air and attack the ball. Learning to read the flight of the ball takes practice, but after a while you will understand when to start your jump. Just think about attacking the ball rather than letting it come to you and jumping forward if possible, meeting the ball in the air at your highest point. If you're performing a defensive header especially in your own defensive third, you just want to think about getting that ball as far and as wide as possible. You don't want to clear it into the center of the field if possible. You want to get it wide. If you can hit a teammate that's great, but really you're trying to clear your lines, get distance on the ball, get height on the ball, and make sure that you get it out of trouble so your team can get out the field. So if he's throwing me the ball, again, throw a little lower please. Hey, what's going on? This is Dylan Tubi of Progressive Soccer Training. I hope you enjoyed that video. This was actually a look into the new program I'm releasing, The Match Winner Method. Become a game changer, improve your performances, and maximize your match stats in 21 days. This program will be released on December 21st. Please subscribe to my channel for updates and related information.