Rio Vista FC Juggling Program

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2007 Juggling Program Award Recipients
Rio Vista F.C. Certificates will be awarded to players that reach the following targets as well as posting them on the club web site (Parent/Guardian permission required)

Rio Vista Football Club is exited to offer our membership a weekly juggling program for players U8 thru U18. The program will run in conjunction with the DCSL spring and fall seasons (9 weeks in length). Week 1 will be a practice week and will then be scored officially from week 2 to week 8. Development of juggling skill in training provides four important benefits that money can't buy, these being:

• touch
• balance
• agility
• soccer specific fitness

Touch
Top level players feel the ball through the shoe, and know at every moment what part of the ball and what parts of the foot are in contact. The player learns to project, mentally, down to the surface touching the ball, foot, thigh, chest, or head, and learns to feel where the ball will go next based on the last touch. For example, it's easy for you to toss a basketball back and forth between your right and left hands, even with your eyes closed. Your mind is in your fingertips. Why shouldn't practice make it easy for a player to "toss" a soccer ball between feet? You must encourage juggling in order to develop touch, because touch translates into better results in matches. With good touch, players will weight their passes more accurately, have an easier time beating opponents with attacking moves, and be more successful at holding the ball against pressure, all because of improved touch gained by juggling.

Balance
When you juggle, touch on the ball is half the battle, the other is in controlling your body. Being able to make rapid, quick, micro adjustments with all the large and small muscles is a requirement for successful juggling, and players with better balance are the ones who can move to their right but keep their balance to shoot the ball to the left, just inside the post.

Agility
Balance’s natural partner, like balance in motion. The ability to change directions quickly. As juggling increases balance, it does improve agility somewhat, especially for those players who work in group juggling exercises where movement and control mix together.

Rio Vista F.C. Weekly Juggling Program
The juggling program will take around 15-20 minutes and can be incorporated into one session per week or as many as you would like. The more you incorporate the program into your sessions the more you will see the benefits of juggling.

Rules

• 5-10 minutes to practice by themselves
• Players will then pair up with team mate or coach if an odd number
• A coach registered with the club team must be present
• Players are awarded 3 attempts during each activity that will be counted by their partner.
• The completed juggling table should be emailed in on Saturday of week 8 to ensure certificates are available to the players. Please send the electronic form to Chris Hurst at churst62@hotmail.com

Links

http://video.premiumtv.co.uk/rangersfc/video/mrwoo_hi.wmv?MSWMExt=.asf

http://www.woosoccer.com/multimedia.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=qRjsLUy72x4