Dribbling and Moves: It is important to first work on your move where you will end up with the ball at your shooting foot. Fake to your left then put ball on right foot for a shot. Then try doing them in both directions which will help you develop touch with both feet. *Best way to beat someone one on one is to fake one way, then take with your outside foot, not the inside, the other way. When dribbling work on keeping the ball close to your feet and improving your touch. Then get to where you can dribble with your head up.
Dribbling 1: Practice dribbling forward while taking the ball with the right foot and create a pattern of inside right then outside right foot. Every step you take you should be touching the ball. Then repeat with left foot only, inside left, then outside left.
Dribbling 2: Pattern: outside right, inside right, outside left, inside left, repeat while moving forward. See how fast you can go while keeping the ball next to your feet and taking a touch with every step.
Dribbling 3: Slalom course: put cones 2 yards apart, 10-12 total in a straight line. Using both feet, any parts, dribble through course, moving forward through course, turn and come back through, keep repeating. See how many you can do in 1 minute. Add up the cones that you passed. Any cone you touch does not count. Then do the same using only your right foot, inside outside. After that use only your left foot, inside and outside.
Moves - First work on Fast Feet : While jogging in place knock the ball back in forth foot to foot using the inside of both feet. Try to get to where you can look up or to a spot on the ground 5 yards away. Can do this staying in one spot, moving forward, and moving backward?
1. Rollover, right sole of foot on top of ball, roll or push ball toward left foot. Repeat with left foot. Add fast feet to this, 2 fast feet then rollover and keep going.
2. Instep rollover, right sole of foot on top of ball, push ball toward your right, slide foot down outside of the ball and push back toward your left foot. Repeat with left foot. Add fast feet to this, 2 fast feet then instep rollover and keep going.
3. Scissor, ball is between both legs or in front of right foot, swing right foot behind ball toward left leg then around front of ball and plant to the right of your body, bring left foot to opposite side of ball and take to your left with the outside of your left foot. You can add two or more of these together to make double, triple scissors.
4. Zig Zag, just like the scissor but don't take your foot around the ball. Ball is in front of your right foot, act like you are going to take the ball toward your right with the outside of your foot, foot stays behind ball and stabs out to your right and plants on ground, making it look like you are going to your right, then bring left foot to ball and take with your outside left foot to the left. You can also do double zig zag etc.
5. Step over, ball is between both legs, take right foot and swing over ball and step past your left foot, then knock ball back toward your right with the outside of the right or same foot.
6. Revalino, like move above but will take ball behind you. ball is between both legs, take right foot and swing over ball and step past your left foot, then take your left inside of foot and touch ball behind you, turn and dribble.
7. Roll back or "L", right sole of foot on ball, roll or pull back straight behind you, when it gets past your left standing leg, use the inside of your right or same foot and push ball behind your left standing leg. The path of the ball makes a backward L on the ground with right foot and normal L with left foot.
8. V or Vee, ball is in front of your left foot, with the sole of your right foot pull the ball back toward where your right leg was standing, then take the inside of your same foot, right, and push it towards your right. The path of the ball makes a V on the ground.
9. Train(our made up name) ball is in front of your right foot, put sole of right foot on top of ball, then put right foot directly in front of your left foot, then with left inside of foot knock ball forward. Should get to where you can run and hop on ball doing this.
10. Maradona, almost like Train. ball is in front of your right foot, put sole of right foot on top of ball, then put right foot directly in front of your left foot, then with the sole of your left foot place on top of ball and spin with back toward the ball. Stop, step, and spin. Doing a 360 degree turn.
11. Outside and Inside 360 turn, dribble forward with ball, with outside of right foot cut the ball back toward where you started from, touch ball 3 times with outside of foot and do a 360 turn. Do the same with the inside of the foot. Should continue dribbling in direction you started.
12. Mathews, basically taking the ball first with inside of right foot and then quickly with outside of right foot, foot never leaves the ball. Lean to your left with ball in front of right foot, push ball with inside of right foot toward your left, then hop toward left, quickly take ball back to the right with the outside of the foot. Push, hop, take.
13. Reverse Mathews, same as above except don't take with outside of right foot. Push to left, hop, then scissor to right and take ball back with outside of left.
14. Roll scissors, do a rollover forward with your right foot, then do a scissor with right foot, faking to right, and come back to your left with the outside of your left foot.
15. Roll stepover, do a rollover forward with your right foot, then do a stepover with your left foot and take back toward your left.
16. Brazilian Locomotive, while dribbling forward act like you are going to back heel the ball or hit with the heel of your right foot, but do this above the ball, then take the ball with your right foot(shoe laces) forward while accelerating. You slow down, fake back heel, then speed up.
17. Swivel hips, dribbling forward, slightly touch ball with inside of right foot like you are going to pass back to someone behind you, you are now facing sideways, then with inside of left foot knock it back in front of you and take off. Dribble, cut with right, then cut back with left. You are faking like you are slowing down do go back behind you then you take off in your original direction.
18. Inside cut move: dribble forward at a slight angle, pull right leg back like you are going to shoot then cut the ball with the instep or inside of right foot, Must cut ball back toward left plant leg and then move left plant leg before the ball hits and take with outside of left foot.
19. Outside cut move: dribble forward toward defender, act like you are going to shoot, pull right leg back and right before you strike the ball take toward your right with the outside of your right foot.
20. Cruyff, dribble toward right at a slight angle, act like you are going to shoot with your right foot, place left plant foot a step past the ball, then cut the ball behind that left leg with the inside of your right foot.
21. Push pull while shielding the ball, place right sole of foot on ball, start to pull ball like your are going to pull it back straight behind you, then quickly push it forward with sole of foot.
22. Half moon if a defender is coming at you to fast and not slowing down to get in defensive stance, push the ball forward with inside or outside of foot, past the defender on one side, then run around the defender on the opposite side of the ball and get ball.
*There are more moves you can practice as well. Some of the names of moves are names we use to remember them. They may have a different name somewhere else. These are the majority of moves we work on.
It takes 75 times to practice a move before you know how to do it well. It also takes about 10,000 times to practice something to where you are almost perfect at it. Practice the moves 10 times a day and then pick 1-3 moves that you are good at and work on using these in games.
