Pick One Skill or Theme For Your Practice
Start with Fundamentals with No Pressure
Slowly Increase the Level of Difficulty and Pressure
Progress to a Large Sided Game with Goals
In other words, instead of spending 5 minutes on dribbling, 5 minutes
on passing, 5 minutes on defense. Use progressions to slowly and thoroughly
develop a skill or theme for your practice.
Here
is an example if passing is the skill a team needs most.
The example below uses 5 progressions, you may decide in some practice
sessions to use only 3, some may use 6-7.
Start the practice
with a warm up that uses passing to get the kids running.
Once players are warmed up, work on passing technique
with no pressure (example- players pair up and pass
back and forth to each other focusing on technique).
Next, add
some non-defensive pressure. It could be passing for
accuracy (two players passing between gates) or maybe passing against
the clock.
Then add some defensive pressure
in a small sided game. Use games or drills that will insure some passing
success. Example: “monkey in the middle”. 4 passers against 1 defender.
Then progress to a 2v2 ,3v3, or 4v4 small sided game with full
pressure.
Lastly, progress to a large sided
game with goals.
Finish with a warm down.
After this practice, passing skills are bound to improve. Use the next regular season game to identify another weak area and do it all over again.
