Shooting
Shooting Arc Rotation: 1-to-1 Session
Strike cleanly from the edge of the box
Shooting
Finishing
First Touch
Shooting Arc Rotation: 1-to-1 Session is a 15-minute shooting drill for 1-2 players, suitable for Under 8 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
First Touch
Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
1-to-1
Foundation Phase
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Individual Development
Small Group
Duration
15 min
Players
1-2
Pitch size
Penalty area plus 10 yards
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Shooting Arc Rotation: 1-to-1 Session — Finishing set-up — serve, receive, shoot · Penalty area plus 10 yards
Step 1 of 5Player takes a touch out of the feet then strikes from the arc.
- 1. Player takes a touch out of the feet then strikes from the arc.
- 2. Rotate around the arc so every angle is used.
- 3. Two shots per station.
- 4. Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
- 5. Rotation: Rotate around the arc so every angle is used.
- 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
- -Strike cleanly from the edge of the box
- -Set the ball up with the first touch
- -Hit the target consistently
Setup
- 1Cones in an arc twenty yards from goal, five shooting stations.
- 2Keeper in goal, balls at each station.
- 3Server on the edge of the D.
Coaching instructions
- 1Player takes a touch out of the feet then strikes from the arc.
- 2Rotate around the arc so every angle is used.
- 3Two shots per station.
- 4Run as an individual session: coach serves, one player works through the reps with rest built in.
Coaching points
- -Head steady and over the ball
- -Strike with the laces through the middle of the ball
- -Follow the shot in for the rebound
- -Detailed feedback after every rep
- -Quality of contact over volume
Common mistakes
- -Leaning back and ballooning the shot
- -Touch too far ahead
- -Snatching at the strike