U6 Practice Plan Note: Be sure and in water breaks as needed. Theme: Dribbling and Ball Control Explain and Demonstrate: Use all parts of your foot; explain why (using as few words as possible) Inside of your foot = control, protecting the ball from an attacker and making inside turns. Outside of your foot = to turn to the outside. Top of your foot = to go fast. You can mark spots on their shoes with tape to help them remember where to strike the ball. demonstrates. 3. Warm Up: Chaos! Create a confined area and have each player dribble a ball around without losing control or bumping in to anyone else. 4. Stretch: Have the players form a circle and do some basic stretches. 5. See below. Exercise: U6 EXERCISE: DRIBBLE AROUND SHAPES Create basic shapes using your cones; a circle, a square and a triangle. Divide your players evenly amongst the shapes. Have the kids dribble around the shapes, staying on the outside of the cones. Rotate direction, and then rotate to a different shape. A B A B A C C C C C B 6. Game: See Below. U6 GAME: MARTIAN INVADERS! Place cones in the shape of a square; about 15 yards by 15 yards. Divide your team into 4 smaller teams of equal numbers, and have them line up at a cone. Place all of the balls in the center of the square. One at a time, a player from each cone races to the center, gets a ball with their foot, and dribbles back to their (cone). The next “base”
U6 Practice Plan Note: Be sure and in water breaks as needed. Theme: Dribbling and Ball Control Explain and Demonstrate: Use all parts of your foot; explain why (using as few words as possible) Inside of your foot = control, protecting the ball from an attacker and making inside turns. Outside of your foot = to turn to the outside. Top of your foot = to go fast. You can mark spots on their shoes with tape to help them remember where to strike the ball. demonstrates. 3. Warm Up: Chaos! Create a confined area and have each player dribble a ball around without losing control or bumping in to anyone else. 4. Stretch: Have the players form a circle and do some basic stretches. 5. Exercise: See below. U6 EXERCISE: DRIBBLE AROUND SHAPES Create basic shapes using your cones; a circle, a square and a triangle. Divide your players evenly amongst the shapes. Have the kids dribble around the shapes, staying on the outside of the cones. Rotate direction, and then rotate to a different shape. A B A B A C C C C C B 6. Game: See Below. U6 GAME: MARTIAN INVADERS! Place cones in the shape of a square; about 15 yards by 15 yards. Divide your team into 4 smaller teams of equal numbers, and have them line up at a cone. Place all of the balls in the center of the square. One at a time, a player from each cone races to the center, gets a ball with their foot, and dribbles back to their “base” (cone). The next
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