TST Footwork Development Process
TST is fundamentally about footwork and it's application in tight spaces. As soon as players get involved they need to be working on the exercises below, and as soon as they have mastered a level, then progress to the next level and onto increasingly game functional techniques.
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Fundamental Footwork Patterns : Learn these first.
In regards to ball moving exercises : Be creative : The examples below are just ideas. They don' t have to be practiced this way.
Why use cones : Cones are a constraint on time and space. If a players touch is bad - the cones will let them know.
Footwork is also further developed whilst playing games: 1v1s, 2v2s, 3v3s etc help reinforce the footwork done using cones.
In terms of levels Drag back -> touch Ball mastery is level 1 : Drag Back U is level 2 : Using a square is Level 3.
Levels go up to #7 : The key is to match the exercise to level of your group so it is a doable challenge.
Players should learn these 4 Patterns First
Inside switch Outside
Context
Ball mastery
Ball Moving Idea
Drag Back U
If a forward touch is added after an Inside switch Outside, this will then naturally add another FFP into the practice: That is : An Outside step Inside.
So the combined pattern becomes : Inside switch Outside step Inside
Inside step Outside
Context
Ball mastery
Ball Moving Idea
If a forward touch is added after an Inside switch Outside, this will then naturally add another FFP into the practice: That is : An Outside step Inside.
So the combined pattern becomes : Inside step Outside step Inside
These patterns above ( along with other FFPs) can be added to a Drag Back. Players at footwork level #1-3 could do these either without conesas a foot shapes / ball mastery warm up or with cones (zig Zag) as a race.[ Check out all thepages in teh able above].
Same foot Inside V
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Ball Mastery
Game Functional : Basic Exercise
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Ball mastery
Ball Moving
Then add more FFPs
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Ball mastery
Ball Moving Idea
Outside step Outside
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Ball mastery
Ball Moving Idea
A simple way to look at FFPs is :
By the Direction the ball is moved relative to facing forward.
Note : Almost all footwork patterns can be simplified into one of these 6 categories.
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