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Help and Advice / Re: How to do shoulder stall or chest stall from neck stall.

« on: Jul 31, 2009, 12:16: PM »

To be honest, I was able to a shoulder stall in 20 minutes. To start off, get the "feel" of how stalling the ball on your shoulder feels like. Try your own thing a few times:

Tip 1: Tilt your head to the opposite side of the ball. In other words, right shoulder stall = head tilting to left.
Tip 2: Move your arm out to the opposite side of the ball. In other words, right should stall = right arm "reaching" to the left. This gives the ball more support so that you almost squish the ball between your shoulder and cheek.

After you've gotten the feeling down, trying throwing the ball up with just your hands. Get it 5 times in a row, then move on to the opposite shoulder.

Once you've finished with that, try it with juggling:

Tip 3: Try to hit the ball as if you were about to head it, then move into your "stall position".
Tip 4: Hit the ball up lightly.
Tip 5: If you can't stall it from your feet, receive it from your knee (Knee if up to your shoulder).

I pretty much did this and got the stall down very fast.

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Soccer Forum / Re: Developing confidence and control

« on: Jul 14, 2009, 08:10: AM »

Alright, thanks for the tips!

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Soccer Forum / Developing confidence and control

« on: Jul 06, 2009, 10:34: AM »

This is my first time posting here, so sorry if I repeated the topic or for anything else. Anyway, I'm 16 years old trying out for the Varsity soccer team of my school. At this point in time, I'm at a significant disadvantage when compared to other players: 1) I never really developed a passion for soccer when I was young, and 2) I've had one less year of experience compared to the other players at my school (didn't make jv freshman year). I'm a defender that has pretty much his position and tactics under my belt, but I lack both confidence and control. Seeing that I'm trying out for a varsity team, those are some of the two largest skills that the coach will look for. I've already tried freestyling (and am doing fine), as well as other simple methods to try to improve my control. I was just wondering if anyone could give me tips on how to dramatically improve their control over the ball in a short amount of time. I'm not talking about a miracle drill or anything, but something that will reward a 100% effort with 100% improvement. Right now, I've just started dribbling through cones about a hundred times (50/50 left and right) per day. I mean, is there something else that's more effective?