Balance is one of the most overlooked skills in soccer. Coach James shares key drills, common mistakes, and how to fix them – based on 4,000+ hours of private training.
In this guidebook video, Coach James breaks down we teach balance in soccer, using clear, practical exercises that can be applied to players of all ages and abilities in an individual or small group training setting.
With over 4,000 hours of one-on-one training experience, Coach James also highlights some of the most common mistakes he sees players make when it comes to balance and body control.
🎯 What You’ll Learn:
Why balance is crucial for technical growth.
Simple drills to improve balance and coordination.
Likely errors that hold players back.
Whether you’re a coach, parent, or dedicated player, this video will give you a fresh perspective on one of the most overlooked parts of technical development.
📚 This video is part of our Beestera Guidebook series.
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What aspect of your game do you need breaking down?
I learned from many resources that yung player should play the game as much as possible in training. Would you agree this is not an exercise you do with larg group of kids, when they only train once or twice a week? Ours now train 3 times a week so it might make sense to add this as a 20 min exercise once a week? But probably this wont help much….
great content! My only question is to the last point about shooting. You mention putting your plant foot away to get that extension. I was under the impression that your plant foot needs to be close to the ball and to lean to the side for shooting?
Thanks, ✌🏻❤️⚽️
Question, are we supposed to be on our toes while trying to keep balance or keep that foot planted. When do you start on your toes and when do you plant your feet?
Fantastic vid, cannot wait for more!
Fantastice video. Specially talking about foot size and leg length in terms of planting foot distance from the ball with how it affects shooting technique. Great insight.
Thanks coach. been practicing and coaching balance for over 12 year's now. Using balance pads and bossu balls are a true secret. These help to develop proper technique. Thanks for sharing and caring about his topic. Really nice to see the approach and how to correct errors. Great work
This was really good stuff. Well done.
Really outstanding, I learnt so much from this video. Just discovered this channel, can't wait to watch the other content.
The last part on shooting was great too. Now we need another vid about balancing when shooting for different kinds of shots. Passes too
Awesome stuff
I do some boxing before go back to football. Balance is key for dribling
Isometrics are good for balance aswell
Saludus
Great vid! Looking forward to seeing more. I'm a 27yo who hasn't played for 4 years but I'm looking to get back into it. More videos on non-technical things like balance such as agility, movement, keeping your head up etc would be awesome. Cheers.
I might even do this seeing I havnt played in many years but a good workout!!!
I’ll do this in the mornings
Can’t stress this enough especially when players are learning the Cruyff turn to turn back or even to change directions moving forward!!! Quality stuff 👏 👏 👏