First Touch
Rebound Board First Touch: Shadow Pressure
Get high volume touches with a rebound board
First Touch
Receiving
Passing
Rebound Board First Touch: Shadow Pressure is a 12-minute first touch drill for 1-12 players, suitable for Under 8 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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Receiving
Passing
Technical Practice
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Rebound Boards
Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Opposed
Under Pressure
Game Realistic
Duration
12 min
Players
1-12
Pitch size
12 x 8 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Objectives
- -Get high volume touches with a rebound board
- -Control a fast returning ball
- -Work both feet
Setup
- 1Rebound board set on a flat surface with a working line five yards away.
- 2Cones mark left, centre and right receiving positions.
- 3Balls stacked behind the working line.
Coaching instructions
- 1Play into the board, control the rebound and reset.
- 2Rotate through inside, outside and sole controls.
- 3Twenty reps per set, three sets.
- 4A shadow defender applies half pressure and can win the ball only after the first touch.
Coaching points
- -Set the feet before the rebound arrives
- -Cushion the ball into the next action
- -Vary pass weight to change the rebound speed
- -Take the touch away from pressure
- -Protect the ball with the far foot and body
Common mistakes
- -Feet planted flat
- -Controlling under the body
- -Same surface every rep