First Touch

Wide Channel Rebound Wall Touch

Repeat high-volume first touch reps

First Touch

Receiving

Ball Mastery

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Wide Channel Rebound Wall Touch is a 12-minute first touch drill for 1-8 players, suitable for Under 5 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, rebound boards. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.

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First Touch

Receiving

Ball Mastery

Technical Practice

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Small Group

Rebound Boards

Foundation Phase

Youth Friendly

Adult Suitable

Wide Play

Duration

12 min

Players

1-8

Pitch size

20 x 16 yards

Ability levels

Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced

Pitch diagram

Wide Channel Rebound Wall Touch — Marked area · 20 x 16 yards

Step 1 of 5Player strikes the board and controls the return with a named surface.

1. Player strikes the board and controls the return with a named surface.
2. Every fifth rep the return must be controlled and turned away from the board.
3. Alternate feet each set.
4. The practice is started by a pass into one of the wide channels.
5. End actions only count when the ball has travelled through a wide channel first.

Cones mark the area
Dashed lines = zones / thirds
Ball
Rebound board
Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble

Objectives

-Repeat high-volume first touch reps
-Control returns arriving at different heights and speeds
-Work solo or one-to-one with a coach

Setup

1A rebound board with a working zone marked in front of it in a 20 x 16 yards area.
2Mark five-yard channels down both touchlines with flat cones.
3Two balls per player and a rebound board.

Coaching instructions

1Player strikes the board and controls the return with a named surface.
2Every fifth rep the return must be controlled and turned away from the board.
3Alternate feet each set.
4The practice is started by a pass into one of the wide channels.
5End actions only count when the ball has travelled through a wide channel first.