Shooting
Rapid Fire Shooting: 1-to-1 Session
Shoot quickly under fatigue
Shooting
Finishing
Speed & Agility
Rapid Fire Shooting: 1-to-1 Session is a 12-minute shooting drill for 1-2 players, suitable for Under 9 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, full goals. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
Back to drill libraryShooting
Finishing
Speed & Agility
Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
1-to-1
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Individual Development
Small Group
Duration
12 min
Players
1-2
Pitch size
Penalty area
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Rapid Fire Shooting: 1-to-1 Session — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · Penalty area
Step 1 of 4The shooter works around the arc striking each ball in sequence.
- 1. The shooter works around the arc striking each ball in sequence.
- 2. Sprint back to the spot between each shot.
- 3. Count goals scored per set.
- 4. Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- C = coach / server
- Ball
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Shooter becomes the next server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Shoot quickly under fatigue
- -React to varied service
- -Build shooting confidence
Setup
- 1Six balls in an arc twelve to eighteen yards out.
- 2Keeper in goal.
- 3Shooter starts on the penalty spot.
Coaching instructions
- 1The shooter works around the arc striking each ball in sequence.
- 2Sprint back to the spot between each shot.
- 3Count goals scored per set.
- 4Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
Coaching points
- -Set the body before every strike
- -Pick the corner before you arrive
- -Keep technique intact when tired
- -Detailed feedback after every rep
- -Quality of contact over volume
Common mistakes
- -Rushing and slicing shots
- -Same corner every time
- -Standing off the ball too far