King Knight Education

Coach Education Specialists | Positional Play | Juego de Posicion | Set-Piece Analyst

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

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[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Personally, you need to open tour eyes and expand your horizon. This is one tiny piece of one session and that one session is part of a series of sessions that build in complexity. If you follow us, you understand that scanning is a key tenant of our belief system. This however has nothing to do with scanning. Just the same as putting on cleats or filling up your water bottle is nothing to do with scanning.

All we are showing in this clip is improvement in kinestetic feel, cognitive overload multi lateral limb use, nueroplasticity etc.

Also, if you closely look at his head, he is scanning the appropriate range. Scanning whilst dribbling at high speed is not looking behind you.

I encourage you to watch it again with this in mind not jump to conclusions on what is or is not being worked.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Disagree.

[B @Its_B_here]

@KingKnightEd I think you've missed what I was getting at. I wasn't suggesting the drill should train scanning. I was talking about ingraining movement behaviours that carry over into real games. Both my comments are absolutely correct btw.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Love it. He looks very comfortable on the ball.

[whatsthatchoon @whatsthatchoon]

@KingKnightEd Thank you! Here are a few

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Absolutely. Please do.

[whatsthatchoon @whatsthatchoon]

@KingKnightEd I would love to show you a video on my 9 year old doing 1v1s in the garden against family, to see if you think he might benefit

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

With respect (and this is the mistake a lot of coaches make) this still is removed from mid-long range scanning. He is scanning his immediate environment (2-3 yards) as that is all we are worried about here. Scanning further in this context would be artificial as there is no pass ever coming.

[Yamal lamaY @Neezenne]

@KingKnightEd Make him look up and not looking to his feet all the time

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

With respect both these comments are incorrect. There is nothing to be gained by slowing them down and this is not the kind of drill to promote scanning (if you follow us you know scanning is a big part of what we believe). The stimulus (cones) are too close together to allow the head to come up. On purpose. This is not a running with the ball activity that then leads to a pass, this is different.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

This is my son (just turned 10), who has been working on this stuff for a short time, going from the slow & deliberate movements caused by just adding a tennis ball to the upper body to this, faster, smoother, more dynamic and more control.

https://t.co/Wz6fP84nGH

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Absolutely. My son is the one that runs with the ball down the right and provides the assist.

[whatsthatchoon @whatsthatchoon]

@KingKnightEd Has this transferred to 1v1s/matches?

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

@PaulSpacey Paul, if you had to outline a way (or few ways) to generate powerful straight (ish) line players (thinking Ronaldinho/OG Ronaldo etc.) what training methods would you implement? Just for clarity I don’t mean the twisty turny sort of players, I mean the one shoulder drop and gone!

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

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Look. What. Is. Possible.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Yip. I work something similar in with my own son.

Juggling a basketball. Tossing a tennis ball up and down. Picking up cones from one pile and putting them in another whilst controlling the ball. Things like this. Then, dribbling with a tennis ball/futsal/Altinha ball etc.

[Michael Rose @MikeRoseWI]

@KingKnightEd Interesting. With my U11 team I throw tennis balls at them to catch randomly to ensure they are dribbling with their heads looking around.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Next time we will take video of the whole session and post it.

[Joel F Lorah @joeliejoel74]

@KingKnightEd Respectfully… then post the video of ‘the last ten min with just the ball.’ Would be interesting to see.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

This is my own son. 10 years old. This looks rough, but when he does 30 minutes of this and other related CNS work and then the last ten minutes is just free with a normal ball, you can see the uplift over and above his normal starting point right away. I just wish I had more time to do this with him.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

@the_singlepivot

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

@the_singlepivot

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Thats fantastic. Delighted you’re enjoying it. Multi balls could be anything. The work I do with my own son I use little tiny toy bouncy balls, squash balls, tennis balls, size 1 balls, futsal balls, soccer balls and Altinha balls. And we mix them all in.

[The Single Pivot @the_singlepivot]

@KingKnightEd Just purchased and started reading “Football Ecology”

MAN this was exactly what I was looking for!

Question - your chapter on u5-u8 development: do you have any examples of what mixed-ball usage might look like in a practice?

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Mot directly in the sense that ‘juggling a tennis ball helps you dribble faster’, but when you had movement and coordination from a different limb set (upper v lower/left v right) it forces neural adaptations that help you with the thing you are focusing on (dribbling).

It’s a definite choice also. In youth soccer if you only have 2 sessions a week, would you prioritize this over team principles or would you take a ‘risk’ with this v the traditional approach to skill acquisition? I think it depends on the bravery of the individual coach.

[The Single Pivot @the_singlepivot]

@KingKnightEd Do you think playing catch (using hands) can translate to football development?

The way I interpreted your book, it was that all movement - including throwing and catching tennis balls, for example - could translate eventually into soccer skills and should be used for young kids

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Just found out about @TST7v7

What an interesting concept for working on intensity, insuring offense whilst also prioritizing defense in training. Love it.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Larry Sunderland is the best.

[Larry Sunderland @Laz06]

Since the day MLS started doing player development…It has been and always will be about the connections that lay the ground work for growth.

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Elliot. Hope you love it!

[Elliott Rushforth @Erushforth1]

Looking forward to reading this. Enjoyed their other books 📚🧠 @KingKnightEd

[King Knight Education @KingKnightEd]

Lee! There you are! Hope you’re well my friend.

[Lee Cosgrove @Leecosgrove10]

Fantastic courses and books👌🏻 Can highly recommend