1000 Touch Workout
This is the world's best daily soccer routine or pre-game warm-up.
The following activity will improve your skills and help you get ready for the season. It is imperative that we not lose sight of the most important skill of
soccer. And that is TOUCH. Touch determines what happens when the ball finally gets to YOUR FOOT. The other important thing about TOUCH is that players
can develop this skill and ability on their own away from team practice! And that is what you should be doing. That way, we can incorporate these growing skills
INTO team sessions and make team sessions far more interesting (i.e. FUN) rather than spending 30-45 minutes of valuable team time learning the very basics.
You need to MASTER at least 3 different moves. And I mean MASTER. That means on both the left AND right foot, or in both directions. That means at game
speed. And that means as a reflex – without having to think to yourself “ok, I want to do such & such move now, so the 1st step is”…etc. That also means including
the exploding acceleration into the space you just created for yourself every time you use (or even practice) the move. Of course, the more moves beyond 3 that
you master, the more dangerous you will be to opponents because they will not know how to defend you. There are over 20 skills, feints, turns, and moves in our
basic warm-up for you to learn. Just imagine how deadly a player you can be. 1000 TOUCH WORKOUT. The footwork activity here is designed to give you about
1000 touches in seven minutes. And I know that everyone can find seven minutes a day to work on their soccer skills. This warm-up should be done daily as a
regular part of exercise and training preparation. Ideally, on practice days and match days, I would love to see everybody arrive 15 minutes early and get this
warm-up in before we even begin the regular training session or match preparation.
1000 TOUCH WORKOUT
SEVEN MINUTE DRILL
50 BALL TAPS
BASIC ROLLS
(10 each foot)
BELL TOUCHES
(50 touches)
FOUNDATION SKILLS
1) Inside-Outside
2) Triangles
3) Vee
(10 each)
PULL-BACK SKILLS
foot )
1) Pull, Instep Push
2) Pull a Vee
3) Pull & Take with Outside of foot
4) Pull & Roll Behind
Do sequence with one foot then switch (4 times each
TURNS:
3 touches. Then bring it back down to moderate pace for the next turn (4
times each foot)
1) Pull Turn
2) Drag-Back
3) Inside Chop
4) Outside-Cut
5) Cruyff
6) Stepover Turn
7) Step-On Shield & Turn
from moderate speed turn 180 degrees and explode/accelerate for
TAKE-ON MOVES
bring it back down to moderate pace for the next move (4 times each foot)
1) Hip Swivel
2) Roll-Touch
3) Roll-Push
4) Inside-Outside (Mathews)
5) Stepover
6) Rivolino
7) Body Swerve (Scissor Behind the ball)
8) Scissor
9) Double Scissor
10) Ba-Dink (Cap)
Complete as indicated in the summer program. Recommended 6 days a week
(6000 touches/week).
, explode/accelerate after the move for 3 touches. Then
FULL 1000 TOUCH WORKOUT
To continue with the FULL 1000 TOUCH WORKOUT, add the following
cycles:
BALL & A WALL
Spend another ten minutes passing against a wall. Use both feet. Use onetouch,
two-touch, and three-touch pass backs. Pass back with both the
instep and inside of feet. Include fake kicks. Keep feet moving and your
weight on the balls of your feet. Receive balls with your body square behind
the ball and work on accuracy with your passes.
JUGGLING/TOUCH LADDER
Spend ten minutes juggling the ball trying to get 100 consecutive juggles or,
if you are not yet proficient enough a juggler, work the Touch Ladder.
PATTERN DRIBBLE
Pattern Dribble for 10-15 minutes.
(IR=inside right; OR=outside right; IL=inside left; OL=outside left)
Begin with easy 1 foot patterns:
IR-OR-IR-OR-IR-OR-IR-OR-IR-OR and
IL-OL-IL-OL-IL-OL-IL-OL-IL-OL
Progress to more complex patterns. For example:
IR-OL-IL-OR - IR-OL-IL-OR - IR-OL-IL-OR - IR-OL-IL-OR
IR-OL-IL-IR-IL-OR - IR-OL-IL-IR-IL-OR - IR-OL-IL-IR-IL-OR
IR-OL-IL-stepover-OL-IL-OR-IR-stepover-OR - IR-OL-IL-stepover-OL-ILOR-
IR-stepover-OR
Make up your own patterns. Be Creative. Have fun with it.
RUNNING, SPRINTING & SLOWING WITH THE BALL
Accelerate & Decelerate under full control of the ball. This is different
from dribbling. Dribbling is about change of direction. This is about pace and
change of pace. The ability to change you pace - explode or come to a dead
stop with the ball under full control - is as important as any take-on move
you can ever learn. The direction is roughly straight ahead. Start from a
moderate pace and then explode for 10-20 yards then bring the ball back
down to moderate pace all the while not breaking stride. 10-15 minutes.
1000 TOUCH WORKOUT
Descriptions of moves
Below are descriptions of many of the Coerver moves learned over the years.
The names I have applied to them are not the end all and be all. Some are
given the names as I refer to them. Some are given the Coerver names that
I have learned them as. The point is not to learn the names as you would a
list of the state capitols – but to learn the moves. The names just help to
keep track of what you’ve learned and what you have done in the warm-up.
Of course, the more moves beyond 3 that you master, the more dangerous
you will be to opponents because they will not know how to defend you. There
are over 20 skills, feints, turns, and moves in our basic warm-up for you to
learn. Just imagine how deadly a player you can be.
FAST FOOTWORK
Inside Roll
inside and sole of the foot and stop the ball with the inside of the other
foot.
- Roll the ball across your body from outside to inside with the
Outside Roll
outside and sole of the foot and stop the ball with the inside of the same
foot.
- Roll the ball across your body from inside to outside with the
Bell Touches
Step up and down to pass ball 4-6 inches between feet. Ball is passed
between the feet with very soft, light touches.
Be sure weight is forward on balls of feet. With each step you should be
coming down on your toes first; then your heels.
Knees stay bent at all times.
Move the ball forward and backward.
Be sure you are stepping up and down; not sideways.
Work at getting a comfortable rhythm.
Inside - Outside
body, tap with the outside of the left foot, then inside with the left foot
and finish with outside of right.
– Tap ball with the inside of the right foot across your
Triangles
sole of your left foot, then tap towards your right foot with the inside of
your left. Repeat starting with opposite foot.
– Tap forward with your right foot, pull back towards you with the
Vee
pull back and across your body with sole of right foot, then push ball
forward and slightly to the outside left with inside of left, and pull back and
across your body with sole of left foot.
– push ball forward and slightly to the outside right with inside of right,
Pull Instep Push
ball forward with the instep of the same foot.
- Push ball forward and pull it back with the sole, then tap
Pull a Vee
while turning and then take the ball with the inside of the same foot.
- Push the ball forward and pull it back with the sole of the foot
Pull & Take with Outside of foot
back with the sole then push the ball diagonally forward with the outside of
the foot.
- Push the ball forward and pull the ball
Pull & Roll Behind
of the foot then pass the ball behind the standing leg with the inside of the
foot. Control the ball with the sole of the other foot.
- Push the ball forward and pull the ball back with the sole
TURNS
Pull Turn
while turning toward ball and take the ball in the opposite direction with the
outside of the first foot.
-Push ball forward with one foot and pull it back with the other
Drag Back
foot while turning toward (and with) the ball. As you complete your turn,
drop your foot from the top of the ball and take the ball in the opposite
direction with the inside of the drag-back foot.
- Push ball forward with one foot and pull it back with the same
Inside Chop
take it with the inside of the foot in the opposite direction.
- Push ball forward, move past ball and turn toward ball and
Outside Cut
taking it with the outside of the foot in the opposite direction.
- Push ball forward, move past ball and turn toward ball while
Cruyff
ball behind the standing leg and change directions.
- Push the ball forward, fake kick with inside of foot, but instead pull
Stepover Turn
following manner:
The step begins from the outside and moves across the body (Close the Gate
fashion). The stepover foot plants alongside the ball with the outside of the
stepover foot facing the ball and your legs are sort of crossed.
Next: Bring the back (non-stepover) foot all the way around to the back of
the ball whilst pivoting on the stepover foot and turning 180 degrees in the
direction toward the ball…
Continue the flow of the motion and carry the ball away with the nonstepover
foot. Accelerate to space.
– Push ball forward, step over ball with one foot in the
Step-on Turn
foot (“stepping” on it) and allow your body’s momentum to carry you over to
the back side of the ball.
Stop your own forward progress once on the other side of the ball with your
body should now be in a sideways-on relation to the ball.
With you now positioned between the ball and the (real or imagined)
defender you have effectively shielded the ball.
With the outside of the foot which is now next to the ball, push accelerate
and carry the ball back to the direction you came from and away from the
defender.
– While dribbling forward, Stop the ball with the sole of your
TAKE-ON MOVES:
Hip Swivel
reverse direction and take the ball with the inside of the other foot.
Accelerate to space.
- Fake with inside of one foot by swiveling hips toward ball, then
Roll-Touch
in into space behind the defender with the inside of opposite foot.
Accelerate to space.
- While moving forward, pull ball across body with sole and touch
Roll-Push
with outside of opposite foot. Accelerate to space.
- While moving forward, pull ball across body with sole and take
Inside-Outside
shoulder, then take ball in the opposite direction with the outside of same
foot. (explode)
(Mathews) - Fake with inside of foot nudging ball by dipping
Stepover
outside of stepover foot, turn and take the ball with the other foot.
– As covered above - With ball moving, stepover ball so ball is
Rivolino
moves across the body (Close the Gate fashion). The stepover foot plants
alongside the ball with the outside of the stepover foot facing the ball and
your legs are sort of crossed.
Next: Bring the back (non-stepover) foot up from behind and plant it next to
the stepover foot.
Next: With the outside of the stepover foot which is still next to the ball,
push accelerate and carry to space.
– Begin as with the Stepover: The step begins from the outside and
Body Swerve
outside of opposite foot. Accelerate to space.
- Fake with outside of one foot, step behind and take with
Scissors
The step begins from the across the body and moves to the outside of the
body (Open the Gate fashion). The motion is very similar to the Body Swerve
motion – as though you were going to push it with the outside of the foot.
The only real difference is that the fake comes over or in front of the ball
rather than behind it.
The faking foot plants alongside the ball with the inside of the foot facing
the ball and your legs wide open and you are rather straddling the ball.
Next: Take the ball in the opposite direction with the outside of the other
foot. Accelerate to space.
- step in front of or over ball with one foot in the following manner:
Ba-Dink
ahead with the inside of the opposite foot. Accelerate to space.
There are other moves. Some very fancy and flashy, but perhaps not so
practical (like the rainbow for example). I don’t mind if you seek out and
work on others – but only in addition to these more fundamental and
functional moves (not in place of them). These are the ones I want you to
work on the most because these are the ones which will serve you best.
(Cap) - Cut ball with inside of foot slightly backward and take ball
Work hard. Commit yourself to your own soccer future. And have fun!
(knowing all of these IS fun!)
TOUCH LADDER
5 Steps To Mastering Touch On The Ball
This is a progressive 5 step system of developing your juggling skills.
It is important to understand that juggling is not a soccer skill, as it were.
You don’t see professional players juggling the ball up and down the field
during matches. However, what you DO see is spectacular 1st touch by most
professional players. And that is something that juggling
Absolute mastery of the ball is the 1st step in soccer success. And juggling
off any desired surface at will and from surface to surface at will IS
mastery of the ball.
So juggling is something beneficial and to master the skill WILL greatly
enhance your game. Here is a straightforward 5 step system to get there.
will help give you.
LEVEL 1 -
(All players start here). The player drops the ball and touches it once with
the foot he prefers. The ball then bounces onto the floor, only once, then
the player touches with his foot again, then the ball bounces, the player
touches with his foot, the ball bounces and so on. If the ball bounces more
than once on the floor then the counting starts again. For Level 1, either
foot may be used anywhere within the touch cycle. So that the pattern goes
like this:
foot - bounce - foot - bounce - foot - bounce - foot - bounce - etc.
50 consecutive touches completes this level.
(Hints:
visualize the “bottom flat” of the ball.
keep the foot straight with the toes pointing down so that the foot presents
a flat surface and the ball strikes cleanly.
Strike flat level surface of your foot precisely to the “bottom flat” of the
ball)
LEVEL 2 -
(For those who have completed Level 1). This exercise is very similar to the
previous one but this time the player touches the ball 3 times with his
stronger foot and lets the ball bounce on the ground and then touches once
with his weaker foot and lets the ball bounce (this completes one round).
So that the pattern goes like this (assuming your right foot is your strong
foot):
right foot - right foot - right foot - bounce - left foot - bounce
round)
bounce
left foot - bounce
bounce - left foot - bounce
(one- right foot - right foot - right foot - bounce - left foot -(two rounds) - right foot - right foot - right foot - bounce -(three round3) - right foot - right foot - right foot -(four rounds) - etc.
(Remember that the sequence is always 3 touches with the stronger foot,
bounce, 1 touch with the weaker foot, bounce (1 round), 3 touches with the
stronger foot, bounce, 1 touch with the weaker foot, bounce (2 rounds) etc.)
25 rounds completes this level.
LEVEL 3
(For those who have mastered Level 2). The player starts with the ball in his
hands. He throws it into the air and with his INSTEP (the INSTEP is the
SHOELACE portion of your foot; not to be confused with the
foot) returns it to his hands. He repeats this with his weaker foot, then with
both thighs and lastly with his head and always returning it to his hands
after each touch.
The sequence then is:
-inside of your
hands - instep - hands - other instep - hands - thigh - hands - other
thigh - hands - head – hands
25 rounds completes this level.
(one round)
LEVEL 4 -
(for those who have completed Level 3). In principle, the exercise is the
same as the one in Level 3 except this time there are 3 touches with the
stronger foot, one with the weaker, 3 with each thigh and 2 with the head.
The sequence then is:
hands - r. instep - r. instep - r. instep - hands - l. instep - hands -
r. thigh - r. thigh - r. thigh - hands - l. thigh - l. thigh - l. thigh -
hands - head - head - hands
25 consecutive rounds completes this level.
(one round)
LEVEL 5 - EXCELLENCE
The same sequence that was started in Level 3 but this time we increase the
number of touches for each round.
Eg. -
thigh, hands, head
2 touches with the other instep, hands, 2 touches with thigh, hands, 2
touches with other thigh, hands, 2 touches with head
touches with each surface for round 3 and so on up to 20 rounds.
sequence is broken or the ball falls to the ground you start again from the
beginning.
Congratulations! Your have now mastered quality touch on the ball! With this
kind of touch quality, you are probably already better than 99% of players
your age. And with this kind of touch quality, there is no other soccer skill
you cannot learn. You have laid the foundation to every dribbling move, every
kind of shot & pass, and every collection method this sport has to offer.
Hands, instep, hands, other instep, hands, thigh, hands, other(one round); hands, 2 touches with the instep, hands,(2 rounds); 3If the
1) Inside Roll
2) Outside roll
