Is Ball Your Life?

           There will be a whole lot of freestyle street soccer tricks to find on this website. I chose to incorporate more freestyle tricks than on the field tricks because, not only did I learn how to play soccer on the streets considering how Aruba doesn’t have grass or barely any turf soccer fields, but also because freestyle tricks can also be used on the soccer pitch during a game. Each trick will have a description, so you can learn the trick step by step. Also, there are short videos to every trick for the people who retain better information visually. Good luck practicing your new tricks!


           Before we can start with the tricks, it is important to understand the different size soccer balls there are on the market because some people might need to use a different size; it all depends on the person’s preference.Today, soccer balls are hollow spherical object filled with air that’s usually made out of ​​waterproof leather and plastic. Often soccer balls have the shape of a truncated icosahedron, which is a mathematical figure, but before the time of the truncated icosahedron soccer balls were made out of inflated a pig’s bladder heavy brown leather. There are also different sizes to soccer balls. The sizes of soccer balls range from 1-5; one being the smallest and 5 the largest. The size 5 soccer balls are regulation size for field soccer and size 4 for Futsal (indoor), but in freestyle or street soccer that isn’t the case.


For todays trick tutorials ill be teaching you three new tricks:

1) Ronaldinho Rainbow

2) Hocus Pocus

3) Issy Hitman Akka

For these tricks you can use any size ball (1-5) just make sure you pick the one you feel most comfortable with.


RONALDINHO RAINBOW

Step 1: Put the ball still on your preferred foot and move your leg from front to back

Step 2: At the moment the ball is behind your standing leg, lift the ball and let it go

Step 3: Rotate your leg under the ball and tap the ball over you with your heel


HOCUS POCUS

The Hocus Pocus is a kind of like the Akka (mentioned in my last post), but behind your non-preferred leg

Step 1: From a stationary position, put your non-preferred leg in front of the ball and put your other leg next to the soccer ball

Step 2: with the inside of your foot (front part of the shoe) let the ball pass behind your non-preferred leg

Step 3: while letting the ball roll behind your non-preferred leg kick the soccer ball (with the outside of your foot) forward


 ISSY HITMAN AKKA

Step 1: with your preferred leg, roll the ball to you from in front of you

Step 2: Lift the ball up diagonally with the outside of your foot

Step 3: Tap the ball with the inside of your foot behind your opponent