Can you spot the difference between a trained technician and a self taught technician?
Below are 2 videos.
- The first looks at a trained typist against someone who is self taught.
- The second video compares players who have practiced and developed their footwork fundamental against players who are given the option to do whatever they think is the best thing to do.
Watch the videos and see if you can spot the difference.
A trained typist vs a self-taught typist
Trained footwork vs a self-taught footwork
In regards to the football footwork video :
- Do you see the difference between trained footwork and self taught footwork?
- Do you understand the benefits, in terms of actually playing the game, of being a trained footwork technician?
- If you do, then at what point do you, or the players you look after, make the move from a self taught footwork model to a trained footwork model?
You may not know what a trained footwork model might actually look like, or how it is developed.
- A trained footwork model is not as basic as, here is a ball, now move it around your feet.
- A trained footwork model is not about being very general about developing different types of touches. How often do coaches say to players, dribble the ball and just use insides, then just outsides, then just right foot, then just left foot, and now use the bottom of the foot.
- This is not bad, or wrong (although some coaches, who always want the game to be the teacher, may have issues with it).
- It can be a great precursor to a footwork model and may give players the absolute basics in regards to fundamental touches, but it is not a footwork model.
- A trained footwork model is also not about laying down a bunch of cones and getting players to dribble through them in whatever way their lazy untrained brain wants to. In same way, you wouldn't give a child a guitar and say practice by hitting whatever strings you want, in what ever order you want and in what ever way you want. Only genius's, with an exceptional natural talent, would end up learning to play the guitar this way.
The footwork model presented in this web-book series is non of the above.
You could spend years studying technique and ball moving, and come up with your own model, but if you haven't got the time, and want to consider using the model presented in the TFT web-book series, then this will save you years of study.
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