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Students will:
Skills Needed
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Learning Coach Notes
Kicking
Goal:
Goal:
Click through the slides below to learn how to kick a soccer ball.
Technique:
- Start with the ball in front of you.
- Step to the side of the ball with your non-kicking foot.
- Swing your kicking foot backward.
- Swing your kicking foot toward the ball to move it forward.
- You can kick the ball with different parts of your foot.
- Inside foot - Turn your toes out. Contact the ball with the inside part of your foot. This kick can go far and is the best for control when kicking at a target.
- Outside foot - Turn your toes in. Contact the ball with the outside of your shoe. This kick won't go far and is best for a short kick to the side.
- Laces - Point your toes down. Contact the ball on your laces. This kick is for when you want to kick the ball far.
- Toes - Contact the ball on the toe of your shoe. This kick can go far but is hard to control where it goes.
Skill Activities:
- Practice kicking with each type of kick.
- Use the different kicks to kick the ball to a partner.
- Kick the ball at a target.
- Kick the ball as far as you can.
- Kick the ball past a friend that is trying to stop it.