Wooden left foot

[socerdoug]

Ok im an only right foot player which is horrible......lately my coach is putting me on left defence. Im doing ok cause i have a lot of speed but i cant kick the ball out or anyhitng with my left foot..how can i improve my ball control and how can i learn to kick with my left foot lol

[Case]

A brick wall is probably as good a coach as any, having assisted the youth development of probably 99% of all pro players!
If u can get an indoor room (empty basement is great, somewhere not overly big) a great exercise to develop both touch and passing with ur non-kicking foot is to pass the ball into one wall facing u, then either take a touch or 1-time it to the wall at 90degrees to u (ie if u training ur left, play ball forward then to wall on ur immediate right), once played, shift ur body thru 90 to face the ball, then repeat, essentially spinning around passing the ball to ur right wid ur left foot.

That'll cover midfield short passes, but at LB u'll need to lump a ball long from time to time, which is a bit more complicated. It relies heavily on ur standing foot, which as ur predominently Righty will mean that when u goto kick wid ur left, ur right will lack the co-ordination to provide the proper base. All I can suggest is that u'll learn best if u simply spend that extra time hitting a few Left foot passes, chances are u have a teammate in the same boat, and u can practice by chipping 10-15 yard passes to one another, increasing the distance as u get better/more comfortable.
It is beneficial to learn this at a young age, as much of any sport hinges on muscle memory, and a poorly learned technique is probably the one u'll default to in a clinche, should u not resolve such problems. Again, a good standing foot is important, very few will ever be truly "2 footed", but this can be hidden by a reliable swinger on a solid base. in the '02-03 season for Madrid, about 80% of Ronaldo's goals were from his left foot, indeed he had a munch better accuracy percentage on his weaker side, as whilst he has the confidence to lash right footed shots with dip/spin/swerve, on his left he kept it simple, which is not a bad goal to aim for. He put maybe 20 goals away by slotting a left foot accross the keeper to the far post, simply as he's not confidnet enough on that foot to try anything else, which just shows that even imperfections can pay dividends.

Good Luck Mate!

(now after all that, I wonder where I left my left foot! Know I used it once back in 1998!)

[socerdoug]

Thank you very much!

[astabooty]

this thread sucks, i thought sum1 literally had a wooden foot lol

[socerdoug]

Its an expression

[Case]

Funny, thats actually wot I was hoping when I opened this thread!

[socerdoug]

Lol

[Callump]

i read it and thought aww poor guy what is he doing playing soccer

[C. Ronaldo7]

I used to be right-footed player until I broke my leg. I used my left foot only for like 6 months. Now i am predominantly left-footed, my doctor said he had seen it happen before so i guess it is possible. Anyway, the moral is, go out and break your leg. :)

[Case]

It's a good shout. Supposedly, as the story goes Jimmf Floyd Hasselbaink broke his right leg as a kid, and it never set straight properly. Supposedly it's at sum fummy angle which is wot he personally attributes his phenominal shooting power to!
And would u disagree with him?!?!

[redalert101]

hey doug im pretty sure both of ur legs r woden and what speed r u talkin about j/p or am i

[astabooty]

hey doug im pretty sure both of ur legs r woden and what speed r u talkin about j/p or am i
u 2 teammates?

[redalert101]

yeah

[socerdoug]

lmao sammy ur horrible

[redalert101]

wow then u must be really horrible cause i school u everytime

[socerdoug]

ya ok sammy shut ur mouf why cant u do it at practice then? garbage

[redalert101]

just playin

[phillys]

Shut up you two! :p

[redalert101]

why the hell do u care

[prk166]

Ok im an only right foot player which is horrible......lately my coach is putting me on left defence. Im doing ok cause i have a lot of speed but i cant kick the ball out or anyhitng with my left foot..how can i improve my ball control and how can i learn to kick with my left foot lol

Stop usin' the right! :)

Question - Do you know if you're naturally left footed?