Football/Soccer Session (Academy Sessions): Sips & Kicks Week 1

Stop Lights (15 mins)

Organization:

20x 20 box

each player with a ball

Story/Description:

players all have a car (ball) to drive around

drivers must learn the stop lights (green= go, red= stop)

as the players drive, the coaches will yell out lights and they must respond

Coaching Points:

keep your car close by controlling it with little touches

keep your head up for other cars

look for the open road

Developments:

P- add in more lights (purple= crazy dance, blue= get a new car)

P- drivers must add gas (toe touches) or fix their cars (box touches)

Ghostbusters (20 mins)

Organization:

20x yard circular area as shown

5x yard circular area as shown

1 ball per player

1 pinnie per player

Instructions:

The Ghosts (players) have taken over NYC (larger circular area) The Ghostbuster (coach) must try to make the city safe again by ridding the streets of ghosts by shooting them with his ghostblaster (striking his ball at the players hitting their knee or anywhere below). The Ghosts are sooo sneaky and clever that they have the power to fly and jump high over the blaster. If a Ghost leaves the city or is hit by ghostblaster they are sucked in quickly to the Ghostbuster HQ (smaller circular area) where they are transformed into a Ghostbuster and collect their ghostblaster and safety gear for themselves before returning to the city to help their fellow Ghostbuster. Players start the game with pinnies on to designate themselves as Ghosts, but when they are sucked back to Ghostbusters HQ they remove them to transform and change into a Ghostbuster. But, before the Ghostbusters drive back to the city they must first charge up their blaster (perform ‘x’ amount of balls mastery

techniques) Play until the NYC is safe from all clever ghosts!

Coaching Points:

- Try to get as close as possible to a Ghost before shooting your blaster.

- Make sure you know where in the city to look for the Ghosts are by looking up.

- Try to make sure you aim for a Ghost and not just shoot your blaster when you can as it may end up in the other side of the city and take a long time for you to get it back.

Progressions:

The ghostblaster will only work if use it properly (using designated part of foot – inside or laces, if players use their toes then their blaster miss-fires and won't capture the ghost)

Remember to charge the blaster doing an "x" number of ball mastery techniques.