Step 5. Recovery

Prepare for next pass.

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Skill Videos

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*CUES- Stay on your toes, lean forward,  use inside of foot.

DRILL VIDEOS

*Before engaging in any soccer drills it is essential to have a proper warm up followed by static stretching over ballistic stretching in order to prevent strains, stress reactions, or stiffness of the muscles and/or bones.

Trapping an Air Ball Drill

Juggling Drill

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One Touch Passing Drill

Biomechanical Terminology

1.) Static stretching- maintaining a slow, controlled, sustained stretch over time, usually about 30 seconds.

2.) Ballistic stretching- a series of quick, bouncing-type stretches.

3.) Strain- amount of deformation divided by the original length of the structure or by the original angular orientation of the structure.

4.) Stiffness- the ratio of stress to strain in a loaded material; that is, the stress divided by the relative amount of change in the structure's shape.

5.) Flexing- to move or bend muscles so as to cause flexion.

6.) Center of Gravity- point around which a body's weight is equally balanced, no matter how the body is positioned.

7.) 90 degrees- forming a right angle.

8.) Sagittal Plane- plane in which forward and backward movements of the body and body segments occur.

9.) Frontal Plane- plane in which lateral movements of the body and body segments occur.

10.) External Rotation- when rotation is away from the midline of the body.

11.) Balance- ability to control equilibrium.

12.) Stability- resistance to disruption of equilibrium.

13.) Quadriceps-  the rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedious.

14.) Abdominals- "abs" or stomach muscles.

15.) Anteriorly- before (in time); in front (in position); towards the anterior; forward.

16.) Adducting-Adduction is a movement which brings a part of the anatomy closer to the sagittal plane of the body. It is opposed to abduction.

17.) Rectilinear Motion- along a straight line.

18.) Weight- attractive force that the earth exerts on a body.

19.) Lift- force acting on a body in a fluid in a direction perpendicular to the fluid flow.

20.) Bending- asymmetric loading that produces tension on one side of a body's longitudinal axis and compression on the other side.

21.) Instantaneous- occurring during a small interval of time.

22.) Extension- a movement of a joint that results in increased angle between two bones or body surfaces at a joint. Extension usually results in straightening of the bones or body surfaces involved.

23.) Power- rate of work production, calculated as work divided by the time during which the work was done.

24.) Stress Reaction- progressive bone pathology associated with repeated loading.

25.) Biomechanics- application of mechanical principles in the study of living organisms.