Individual football drills

Reekwind

Hi all,

I've not played football in years (since I was yay high) but am looking to pick it up again. Unfortunately I'm living in Ingerland for the next few months, not near any clubs, so I was wondering if anyone can suggest some individual drills for me. Just simple stuff (me, boots, ball, field) for me to brush up on the technical skills

Hopefully I'll be able to convince some folks over there to play but for now its just me

Cheers

D'Agger

I'd imagine the first thing you're going to have trouble with is solo-ing on the run so practice that across a field - switch legs after every length to develop both your left & right.
Another would be simply picking the ball and rolling it ten yards in front of you then pick it again - just to get used to doing it quickly again. I'd look up sites online to find drills on how to improve your reflexes aswell as the games getting faster and faster! but the two I've mentioned should help with the 'aul fitness and basics.

Hope that helps!

Conditioned

I'd agree with PaulieC above.

When setting up an individual training session you've got to look at what you what to achieve and what you are able to achieve.

Some basic skills and the possibility of implementing them in a solo trainng session:
Pick up - yes
High Catch - yes
Fist pass - No
Kick Pass - No
Kicking for goal- Yes
Kicking for points - No
Defending skills - No
Attacking skills - Yes, some
Soloing - Yes

What I would do is set up a fitness training session using using the ball as having a decent level of fitness is going to stand to you when you do train with an actual team.

Pick Up: Just as was described in the post above. But you can also implement it in interval and fartlek drills.

High Catch: Not a whole lot you can do here other than kicking it up in the air and trying to catch it.

Kicking for goals: No keeper but some lads still find it hard to score and at least you don't have far to travel to get the ball.

Kicking for points: If you have a goals which allow you to kick from either side your on a winner here as it'll save you alot of chasing after the one ball.

Attacking Skills: Dribbling cones.

Soloing: Some form of interval training or fartlek running could be done using the skill of soloing as your focus. For interval running you could set up a square solo one side, carry the ball in your hand the next side and so on.
For fartlek you could do much the same thing. set yourself a time limit maybe 20 minutes and break it up into runs of different pace, sometimes carrying the ball sometimes soloing.

You can also do shuttle runs while soloing.

Basically a solo training session just like a team training session is all up to your imagination. Once you have a set of principles and sound theory behind what your doing your on a winner.

Marse

Stand in front on a wall with a ball vary your kicking, you'll develop different kicking and the ball will come back at you high and low, slow and fast depending on the way you play it against the wall. I will help you handling, gathering and hand eye coordination.

keane2097

If you have a wall you can paint or hang some targets on you can use it to practise your foot passing fairly effectively.

keane2097

PaulieC wrote: »

I'd imagine the first thing you're going to have trouble with is solo-ing on the run so practice that across a field - switch legs after every length to develop both your left & right.
Another would be simply picking the ball and rolling it ten yards in front of you then pick it again - just to get used to doing it quickly again. I'd look up sites online to find drills on how to improve your reflexes aswell as the games getting faster and faster! but the two I've mentioned should help with the 'aul fitness and basics.

Hope that helps!

What Paul forgot to add here is hamstring stretches :pac:

Reekwind

Thanks for the tips lads. Anyone know of any particular sites/videos that I might help me with the skills?

mrgaa1

ulster.gaa.ie and look at their coaching section

Frogdog

mrgaa1 wrote: »

ulster.gaa.ie and look at their coaching section

I thought the OP was looking for football drills?