footbag skills in football (soccer)

Swampy · Post by **Swampy** » 07 Jul 2004 05:08

In generally one year I was developing my footbag skills, without ever trying any other sports. A week ago I joined some friends to play the so long forgotten football (soccer). You can guess that I basically sucked at the beginning due to my footbag-accustomed legs.

My question over here is the following. How can I take the advantage of footbag in football? I already tried clipper-passes (I actually saw these made by Zidane) and outside kicks. However these are not sufficient. Anybody out there with football and footbag skills, report.

P.S. My head was unused to football head play too. You can imagine what might had happened.

Or to make this topic alive, did anyone of you feel the advantage of footbag in any other sports?

HackingGanesh · Post by **HackingGanesh** » 07 Jul 2004 13:01

I work in a sports camp, and I found it helped alot with juggling control. I can also do around the worlds on the soccerball, so doing these and then kicking it over a defender usually leaves them pretty shocked

ptaku · Post by **ptaku** » 07 Jul 2004 14:15

My legs are stroneger, I run faster. And I used my strenght in football before i start play footbag. Now I'm technical player like Zizu (I don't like him

) or Del Piero.

KronoKicker · Post by **KronoKicker** » 07 Jul 2004 15:12

if your good at atomic and quantum sets, there is a good fake in soccer that is very similar. Ben Kelman pointed this out to me, and now that i can actually do quantum i see how right he was. I call it a scissors move where u move your leg past the ball and come around the front of it and then shift your weight and go the opposite direction of your fake. A really good move if u can do it right.

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 07 Jul 2004 16:03

i know what ur talking about krono .... i guess those sets can help u with doing that, used to practice that soccer move a lot (before my soccer career ended), i guess practicing that helps with the move, but i dont think knowing that move helps with the sets, cuz i cant do em'

*Jethro* · Post by ***Jethro*** » 07 Jul 2004 16:14

i find that people who see me kick either ask if i play soccer,if im good at soccer or they will just ask alot of things related to soccer so i figure that doing one of them (footbag or soccer) would help the other out in some way.

MegaFighter_X · Post by **MegaFighter_X** » 08 Jul 2004 01:14

Well.. if you count DDR as a sport...

It actually builds endurance for some of the songs. Good thing there.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 08 Jul 2004 05:40

Because I played a lot of Australian Rules Football when I was growing up, usually when I played soccer I was the goaly. However occasionally when I wasn't I found my balls skills were much better than they used to be. Unfortuantly my passing and shooting skills are woeful.

I also play a lot of touch football (similar to Rugby League - but very much it's own sport these days) and remember one game playing in the State Club Champs when I dropped the ball and instinctively toe stalled, then scored moments after. I didn't really notice the toe stall (I mean I knew I did it, just didn't react to it at all - I was focused on the game) but the rest of my team thought it was pretty cool.

Also the other day I was cooking meatballs and dropped one and toe stalled it as well which was very cool!

quadgun · Post by **quadgun** » 08 Jul 2004 16:19

hey jeremy, did u eat the meatball after u toe stalled it?

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 08 Jul 2004 20:06

yeah, but I washed it first and they were initially fried (and then put in a sauce and cooked more) so I think it was ok. Nobody got sick afterwards anyway.

comastalker · Post by **comastalker** » 10 Jul 2004 05:18

Got a crazy experience, too.
Wanted to refresh sheet of my bed, it is in a head high partition.
I grabbed it and because it lay on a stack of sheets I dopped it off
and outside the partition straight towards the ground, and what the fuck !?
I outside ATWed it ?! Completely automatically... Same with playing volleyball. I was in a volleyball sports club and was the only one who
didn't accidently used my feet when missing the ball, because I HATE(D)
SOCCER. Then, I left the sports club and joined the volleyball class in school, just 2 months after starting with footbag freestyle. I'm now still not able to keep my damn feet on the ground... Habits suck.

LameR · Post by **LameR** » 21 Jul 2004 23:22

Old topic but I felt like posting. Footbag translates to soccer somewhat, but when you get into playing competitively, it doesn't help much. I'd guess that it would help endurance (I already had it pretty high), and dribbling, but I don't see how footbag could translate to passing, shooting, or defending at all. The thing footbag has helped me the most with in soccer is trapping, with implementing my left foot more and more a close second.

rosco · Post by **rosco** » 03 Aug 2004 14:25

I have also played football with footbag kicks and it was greate.

ShredStylez · Post by **ShredStylez** » 03 Aug 2004 16:21

I play soccer and just that fact that you have gotten accustomed to using your feet and being agile helps you.