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Here are 2 "SECRETS" of dribbling that are seldom taught, so i encourage you to try.

Brazilians often relate their soccer to music, and have great rhythm when running and dribbling with the ball. The way to achieve this rhythm is to keep your upper body relaxed. This allows you to be flexible and helps you have much better upper body movements for deceiving the opposition. If you maintain a stiff body posture, your movements will be stiff and not really deceptive at all.

A really good tip to get a "looser" upper torso while training dribbling is to encourage your body to open your hands and keep your hands wrists "floppy". By doing this, the upper torso becomes loose and flexible, which in turn will lead to better upper body movement for body fakes. For instance, if you try dipping your shoulder one way and then going the other way, the "dip" will be far more effective with a loose upper torso, and therefore far more likely to deceive the defender.

To emphasize the point, make a fist with both hands and clench your fists tight. Now try moving your upper body and you should notice how stiff and awkward it is.
Now try the same with loose floppy wrists. See the difference?

Secret #1 for dribbling is to keep your upper torso relaxed and keeping your hands open and floppy

When dribbling it is more effective to be "small". The reason for this is similar to the reason for the first tip. By keeping small and close to the ground with your legs slightly bent, you will have greater mobility and able to twist and turn to deceive the defenders more easily.

To emphasize the point, stand straight up with rigid legs. Now try and deceive a defender by lunging one way and then going the other direction. Now try it with the legs bent and in a more relaxed fashion. See the difference?

Secret #2 for dribbling is to keep your knees slightly bent and keeping close to the ground

Stand small not tall. Here's a drill to help with this and you can incorporate both secrets into this drill.
Dribble the ball around with 15 seconds or whatever you want, then you must stop the ball "dead" using the knee.
Stopping the ball with the knee automatically achieves two things :

1. Get you to lower your body by bending your knee, getting your body low to the ground (coiled and ready to accelerate).
2. Forces the shoulder to dip and makes the upper torso turn.

Note : This is important to help deceive your opponents when faking to go one way before exploding in the other direction.

During the practice alternate knees, try double touches, right, left and continue dribbling, vary pace of the exercise.

It's fun and productive, and it works!



Nb : I learned dribbling from this tip above and with some additional practice, it really works for me!

Freestyle Football, or also known as Freestyle Soccer in North America, is the art of expressing yourself with a football, while performing various tricks with any part of the body. It has become a widespread sport across the world and is played by many people.

There are many ways to express yourself, but freestyling with a football is fast becoming the preferred avenue for the youth today. One requires almost no equipment at all, only a ball is needed.

"Nothing is impossible" is a sentence which exemplifies the spirit of football freestyle. What feels impossible today may soon become possible with time and practice. As time passes by more and more tricks are developed and the sport becomes progressively harder.

Tricks are what it's all about performing tricks while juggling a ball with all different parts pf your body, soles, shins, thigh, heels etc. The first step is of course juggling the ball in the air. The difference between juggling and football freestyle, however, it is performing not just any tricks, but the most stunning tricks you can think of. Football freestyle can be performed while sitting, standing, and even in a lying position.

I think when you want to play the ball and entertain people even yourself, you can do some cool move with freestyle. Not just that, freestyle give you a lot of advantage, when you juggle the ball and do some cool move, you aren't entertaining people and yourself, but you also train your balance and your touch.
Balance is important for footballer and futsal player. Touch is important too, with good touch, you can feel the ball with ease, especially when you dribble and receiving the ball at the football and futsal game. You can make money from freestyle too, and there are a few freestyle industry, where pro and rookie freestyler joined together. They get money, when they perform their tricks in any event.