Today I'm going to talk about one of most basic and common movement skills in soccer freestyle. The literal translation into Chinese is "circling ground", which means circling ball with your feet while juggling ball. Learn and master it skillfully, you will not only improve feeling of ball, but also learn how to coordinate with ball. Not to mention showing off on pitch...

Highlights

1. First stop ball on your lead foot, lift your foot and stay in air for a few seconds. The purpose of this is to improve your ability to balance, which is also forefoot action.

2. Once ball is balanced on your feet, start tapping ball. The more you spin ball, better. Here's trick: when you pick up ball with your foot, your foot taps at same time.

If you don't rap when ball goes up, chances are you'll fail.

3. You can throw ball clockwise or counterclockwise, just choose way that suits you best. But pay attention to part where ball touches ball. Take for example a right-handed player, big toe is used to push clockwise and little toe is used counterclockwise.

4. Support your leg to lightly push off. This will give you more time to hit ball in air, thus increasing success rate of action.

5. Our goal is not to finish this action, but to be able to control ball after you finish this action and continue to practice the ball.

The connection in middle is more difficult, so everyone's jump distance and jump height shouldn't be too high, otherwise it's easy to lose control of ball.

How to practice

1. Don't rehearse rap right away, but first practice movement without ball to get feel of rap.

2. The next step is to add ball to practice, first to complete movement and then to practice the connecting movement.

3. If you still want to increase difficulty, increase height of bouncing ball. When ball falls high, stop ball and then catch fancy ball.

Interest is best teacher. The main points of method are listed above. Before training or playing football, you can practice a few minutes earlier, practice makes perfect. Mastering a little technology is also very helpful for boosting your self-confidence, oh well!

August 21, 2023