Changing Speed when Dribbling a Soccer Ball

Series Summary

The exact origins of the game of soccer are a bit muddy. However, it is known that a soccer-like game has been played around the world for about 3,000 years. The game as we know it was conceived in England. Soccer, or football, was a very violent sport that had no rules. There were actually laws passed to stop the game, but they failed. Soccer later adopted rules and became the game it is today, though hooliganism remains as a vestige of simpler, more brutal times.

Soccer is the world’s most popular game! It is said that there are more than two billion soccer fans around the globe. In these free beginner soccer skills videos, get ball dribbling tips and moves to improve your game. Our expert soccer coach will show you how to change speeds, how to do Matthew’s turn, how to do a scissors turn, shielding and dribbling against an opponent, and changing directions. Watch these online soccer lessons and learn how to get the announcer to shout “Goal!” for your team.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Mark Wilson with United Soccer Academy. We are here with Expert Village and we are going to talk a little bit about dribbling. Right now we are going to look at changing our speed while we dribble the soccer ball, and there is a few things that we have to remember when we do that. We have to change our speed. If you look at our demonstrator here, we start off high taking lots of touches on the ball, and then we get down low and we take fewer touches on the ball. Okay we would just like to show that again. Again we are going to show our demonstrators starting off high with his back straight, he takes few touches close to him and less touches as he gets down low and accelerates. He has head up, he is looking where he is going, and he is in control of the ball. We just demonstrated dribbling the ball changing our speed. We start off high with our back straight, we take 2-3 touches and close to us. And as we increase speed, the ball comes out in front of us, and we get down lower so we can start working on our speed and taking the space in front of us. "