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I believe in juggling

7/22/2020

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I believe in juggling a soccer ball.  I don't believe in just going out and juggling.  I believe in juggling challenges.  I don't judge a soccer players skill level based on their juggling.  I'm not sure those two things are related at all.

I do juggling tests to MEASURE a players relationship with the ball.  How much they've worked with the ball.  For instance, I do a 14 surface juggling challenge where the surfaces are:
  1. ​Laces Right Foot
  2. Laces Left Foot
  3. Inside Right Foot
  4. Inside Left Foot
  5. Outside Right Foot
  6. Outside Left Foot
  7. Heel Right Foot
  8. Heel Left Foot
  9. Right Thigh
  10. Left Thigh
  11. Right Shoulder
  12. Left Shoulder
  13. Head
  14. Chest
Can you do them without dropping the ball?  Can you close them all out and do them all again without dropping the ball?  Tobin Heath, while at the University of North Carolina could do all 14 surfaces twice in 36 total touches.

Its challenges like this that measure the relationship with the ball.  Heres another one; on my first week back to training after the Covid19 shutdown I gave each player 1 minute and 15 seconds to count every single juggling touch they did on their right foot, even if they drop the ball they continue from the number they left off from.  Then they do the test again on their left foot and I compare the skill gap between the players strong foot and their weak foot.  Of the now 30+ players I've trained since returning to play, only 14 have been able to get 100+ touches on both feet.  

THAT GIVES ME INSTANT FEEDBACK!
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    JC

    I consider myself a soccer teacher.  Not a soccer coach.  Many coaches will tell a player what to do, when to do it, and where to do it.  My focus is to give each of my players the WHY.

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