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Whatever you do, don’t lose your patience or become frustrated. If you have no practice, you will be terrible when you start of, but soon enough you’ll be controlling the ball more easily and the more you practice, the more tricks you can learn to pull off.

Practice the basic Juggle. Find your foot/soccer ball (make sure it’s not a light beach ball) and try to use both feet to keep it in the air. The key is to keep a back spin on the ball so it’s always spinning towards you. As you master this technique, you will see you can control the ball much easier with both feet than with one.

Practice for an hour everyday, soon enough you’ll feel like you can do 1000 keepy-uppies without ever feeling you’re going to drop the ball, it’s a fantastic feeling.

When you have your juggling down, you can progress to balancing the ball on your foot. From the ground roll the ball back towards you as if you are going tobegin juggling, but hold it on top of your foot instead.

Try this with both feet until you can balance it easily and can transfer it between both feet in the air. This move is a ‘stepping stone’ move that will lead onto other more decorated tricks.

Move onto the ‘Around The World’ trick. This trick is not easy and requires around 2 months practice (an hour a day) to master it. It’s all about flicking the ball up moving your entire leg around it and catching it again on it’s way down, and continue juggling when it’s executed.

To make it easier:

•Go for a regular juggle but this time move your leg up and over at the same speed as the ball travels upwards.

•Then bring your leg down to catch the ball on its way down before it hits the ground.

•This move can be done inside out or outside in. Either way flick the ball on the outer side to make it spin in the air and give you more time to go around it. Remember to practice this with both feet.

Another cool trick to try out which will stun your on lookers, is the neck cushion. This is about balancing the ball on your neck which will amaze your audience.

Start from a juggling position and send the ball above your head, at the same speed as the ball comes down, bend your waist a 90 degree angle and let your neck and shoulders absorb the ball’s energy so it doesn’t bounce away. The ball should rest comfortably on the back of your neck, balance it with your shoulder blades.

If you want to make the move more advanced, fold your head down and as the ball begin to roll down towards your head, flick your head up in a smooth motion to send the ball in the air. Catch the ball with your feet and keep juggling.

Another thing you could do is to sen the ball high into the air, but instead catch it again in the same way on your neck, this will get you those oohs and aahhs you want.

Combine the moves. Once you’ve mastered them individually, go to the next step and increase the difficulty level by mixing and matching moves and intertwining them together in smooth motions. You can even create a choreography for yourself. Go from juggling to an ATW (Around the World) then a foot balance and a neck cushion, you’ll be amazed at your own ability to master these tricks.

To improve your control, try these tricks with smaller sized balls so when you move up to regular size, it feels much easier to execute them.

Find comfortable shoes to perform your tricks with, barefoot is easy but special indoor shoes with smooth rounded tops are also good.

You can purchase a special pro freestyle ball to improve your skills, but you will get more respect if you can do the tricks with any type of ball.

Have fun with it even if it’s horrible at first while you perfect your styles it can be a great source of laughter!

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