How to Chip a Soccer Ball

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Guillermo Gomez, I coach soccer. Today, I'll be talking to you about how to chip a soccer ball. First of all why do we chip a soccer ball? We want to chip a soccer ball because sometimes you have a perfect pass, but the defendant is right in the middle of your way, so, you just cannot do the straight pass to him. So, you would actually want to put the ball over their heads, which that's what's called chipping the ball so, the ball takes an ark motion, goes pass the defender, so that your team mate can receive the ball. The body mechanics for chipping a ball is basically, you're approachable to the side, your none kicking foot comes right to the side of the ball, you put your kicking foot underneath the ball with pointing your three toes, inside toes, underneath the ball while you do a quick motion of kicking the ball to lift it. Now, it's important that you don't bring your body forward cause that will keep the ball low, you actually want to lean you body backwards a little bit. OK, as you kick the ball you don't, you want time and precision of the pass and you, also, want to see how much power you need to put on that ball to make sure that your team mate receives an accurate pass. So, here again you watch your supporting foot, you come behind the ball, you do a quick swing to the ball, and that should create a back spin. A back spin is good, for chip pass, because that will make your team mate be able to receive the ball more easily. So, that's how you do chipping the ball."