REALLY curling a free kick or a chipped shot and dipping them

A chipped or lobbed shot is what you get if you get your foot under the ball and don't follow through.

For free kicks... what part of the foot are you using to strike the ball?

 

Say what????

If you're taking a free kick, you should be striking the ball with the upper part of your foot - either your instep, or depending on how you want to strike the ball a bit to the inside or outside of it. It's a VERY fundamental technique. You're not going to get anywhere by toe-punching the ball.

Now read through the other threads on shooting. If you're at least striking the ball consistently with your instep, then the other threads will be MUCH easier to understand.

 

Sudhan, thank you so much for these hilarious posts. You clearly proved to everyone that you do not have a clue about how to play soccer. You post the stupidest threads I have seen on these boards. "How to do Tricks Unconciously?" WTF?!?. Although you post here asking others "how to bend a free kick like Beckham, you are too ************in ignorant that reading a forum on the computer won't help you accomplish your goal. How many more stupid questions do you need to start a thread for? This forum used to be such a great source of info for players before the past couple of weeks when you started posting your crap here. Now practically half the threads here are your incoherent crap. You want me to let you in on a little secret on how to get better? How 'bout you get up off of your ass and actually play. For some strange reason I don't think Beckham and Henry became great by posting on a message board. I hate how one stupid fvcking newbie can ruin an entire forum, atleast for me. I'm going to take a brake for BigSoccer for a while. I'm fed up with dumbasses like you. Everyone else on this Player's board is awsome and extremely helpful. Props to you guys. Hopefully when I come back to BigSoccer, ideots like you, yes you sudhan, will be gone.

PEACE

PS. LEARN-TO-SPEAK-ENGLISH

 

Thank you, soccerfan11 and Jc18star... especially for noticing sudhan's answer to my question of "what part of your foot are you using to strike the ball?"

I don't claim to be a brilliant player - after all, I'm a non-starter on a Division III college team that's had a 2-52 record in my three seasons... but I'm still constantly learning the game and improving my technique, mostly from playing against better players and PLAYING REGULARLY. (I do have a specialty - namely, long-range shooting and dead balls - so I offer what advice I can. Don't take me for some kind of soccer guru though. Anyway, I digress.) I'm sorry, but doing tricks in your living room isn't going to help you one bit in the real game - it's easy to look like Maradona when you're dribbling around furniture - and attempting bicycle kicks in your home won't do anything for you except leave a lot of broken glass on the floor. (Another obstacle to dribble around? That's just about the only halfway optimistic thing I can think of about broken glass.)

So what's this forum for? Yes, people do ask for advice. But you should try to work things out for yourself first, and then come here if there's something you're really stumped on. Look at how other people ask for advice. For the most part, people are showing up with very specific questions. The more information, the better. What can you do right now, and what's holding you back? What techniques have you tried for whatever it is you're trying to do? Finally... if you're looking for practice suggestions, wouldn't it be a good idea to actually practice?

 

you're a douche.

 

While it's true Sudhan does ask a lot of questions, nobody's forcing you to read them. I can't see why it bugs you so much. If you don't want to contribute anything DON'T.

As for soccerfan11, your english isn't perfect either. Did it ever occur to you that his name "Sudhan" could mean he's from Sudhan?

 

So Elninho, not trying to be sarcastic, or whatever the word is I can't think of it at the moment, but anyways. What DO you suggest that we do if we cant practice with anyone? (Weekend not on the team) or if we cannot actually play against better opponents? (Besides highschool, which is now over) What kind of stuff do you suggest? This is a serious question, not a flame at you Elninho.

thanks

 

Ignoring all the douches around here, try not to bend it like Becks, try to bend it like you. I know htat sounds stupid but the fact is everyone's mechanics are a little different so our approach to the same skills are going to be different.

With that in mind, take what's his nut's advice and go out and srike the ball repeatadly fro various angles and distances. I do ten from the right, shag em, and do ten from the left till I reach fifty...... do even more to get the hang of it because that's what I do just to stay sharp. Work on striking the ball first with the instep to get a perfect line drive, then work more with the inside curve, usually starting at the knuckle of the big toe..... but don't stop there.

The most wicked, severe spin comes from the amount of foot you can get on the ball before it leaps off of your foot. Work on exagerating you follow through.......... you won't believe how wicked the ball will move when you get it right, but first concentrate on hitting a target.... you remember that ten from the right, ten from the left thing? Well, eventually you want to hit ten from the right - aimed at near post, then ten from the left aimed at near post - then ten from the right again aimed at far post - and so on alternating you target area.

Oh and to get that nasty lift and drop motion on the ball, you have to create alot of top spin by yanking you follow through up as well as out....... don't worry about that though, I think Becks has the market cornered on that ability right now.

 

Oh and PISS OFF to those of you who don't want to help out!

Maybe he doesn't have access to the kind of help he needs, or maybe he is a little to shy to approach someone in person........... you all sound like soccer snobs to me. I asked a lot of questions when I was young and hungry to learn, and all I was told was how I'd never be able to do it. Many years later and a Pro career behind me, I can happily tell you all to STUFF IT!

Ahhhhh that felt good, think I'll fire my shrink now!

 

ummm, becks7... it's "Sudan", not "sudhan". Better go back to that geography book. But that's some good advice from goyoureddevils (gotta work on that name, though).

 

Thanks for the endorsement! I do this sort of technical training as a business, training individual players and teams on skills such as these. I like to teach!

oh and sorry, the name is a mouthful, errrrrrr keyboardful.

 

oops, seemed right at the time

 

so ... you feel the need to attack me since i refuse to agree with the xenophobic rantings of an obvious moron.

 

first of all, may i suggest decaf for some of you posters

and for you sudhan - trial and error baby - remember; repitition creates muscle memory

 

muscle memory will do him more harm if he's doing it wrong...... he needs to learn the technique ad then repeat a million times.

 

Is there a thread I can go to where it's nothing but bitching and moaning? I thought I had found it but some idiot put helpful soccer tips on it.

 

Man, you guys are just vicious. So what if he's not using proper form. Isn't that the point of these forums, to help people become better players. Apparently you have to already be an expert to use these forums, I must not have been informed of this when I joined.

Some of you guys need to grow up a little, and not bitch and complain about someone not being as skilled as you. Sorry, but everyone isn't awesome at everything. No one forces you to read his posts, so if you don't like them, then why the hell do you read them?

Also, you say that you'd expect those questions from an 8 or 9 year old. What difference does it make how old he is? I mean, c'mon, whether he's 8, or 80, beginner, or expert, he should still be able to get the same helpful tips and advice that the rest of us do, regardless of his skill level.


-CPFitz-

 

Yeah... sorry for being an ass.

Guess I should of looked at the dates....


Anyway... lets let this die.


-CPFitz-