No.38 "Shooting Gallery"
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Accurate shooting takes regular practice. This is a useful way of organising a group for repetitive shooting practice so that they get as much time on the ball as possible. You can put more than one player at each end of a grid taking turns and can use them to serve for each other as well in the developed practice. Keep stressing the need for having a look at the target on the run up, and the importance of accuracy before power.
Organisation
Use discs and poles to divide up lanes with 4 yd goals and keepers
Keep at least a 2 yard gap between goals
Player at either end of each lane take turns at shooting
Make sure they give keeper plenty time to turn, don’t shoot until keeper signals he is ready
Do not allow player to shoot from too close in for keeper safety
Make it competitive - keep the score
Coaching Points
- Get ball out from feet
- Look up and observe keeper - select shot
- Get standing foot up beside ball
- Leading shoulder pointing towards target
- Head steady; focus on ball
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- Firm ankle “Scrunch your toes”
- “Accuracy before power”
- Strike through mid-line of ball; keep it down
- Transfer of body weight through shot
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Development
- Adjust distance for shot
- Put in a server beside post and have ball served on ground for first time strike
- Have ball thrown in for volley 1st time or on bounce
- Have serves coming from the side across the player on the ground and in the air
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