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I had moved to California, and was seeing huge success with the Super Soccer Skills DVD. I was inundated with requests for a follow up DVD to take the players to the next level, and older players wanted to develop their skills. I decided the best plan of attack to help players develop faster was combining the indoor tests from the Super Soccer Skills DVD in a challenging and fun format. To advance skills I do not believe it is learning new ones only that creates a better player. In fact, if you look at the worlds top players, you will see the same move again and again. They just add a little move or shimmy before it, and then move into their best fake. By combining skills I had noticed that players had a better center of gravity, got lower in their legs to perform them quicker, and thus had a more explosive body position to attack from. This helped develop this DVD. We focused on faster foot skills, lower center of gravity, combining moves and accelerating with the ball. If you think about it, the fake does not help you beat the player. That just helps you put the defender off balance for a split second. It is the speed of movement AFTER the fake, exploding into the space created, that brings the success. So we set up the date to have many of the same players from Super Soccer Skills came back and shoot the next in the series. It was a very challenging shoot as the combinations were very specific and tougher than the Super Soccer Skills. However, we hit the goal again as the feedback has been excellent. Over the past few years I have had an amazing experience from this DVD. Many youth coaches, and players from older age groups than this was intended for, have approached me and given their feedback. Their first impression was that the DVD was simple and easy. However, as they tried the skills, they noticed that they were missing vital components of the skill, or could not keep up the the foot speed of the onscreen players, which is why it was not working for them in games. Coaches were using the teaching methods for their practices and older players were loving the challenges on the DVD. So not only had we advanced the younger age groups, but on top of the intended age group, we had also influenced many more players through their Coaches and their desire for info
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