How to bend
A Soccer Ball Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham | Freekick Tutorial | COACH MY SKILLS
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hi guys Chris from coach my skills here
today we're going to be learning how to
bend the ball like no other than the man
himself David Beckham
it's Becca okay
the message sent across the ocean loud
and clear in my opinion David Beckham is
the master of the side foot free-kick
and today I want to try and show you
this technique so that you can do it
yourself at home now first up there is
three rules before taking these free
kicks if you're wearing a number that
number has to be either twenty three or
number seven or number thirty-two you
must be wearing added s boots simple as
that
do your hair like a David Beckham style
the first step that David Beckham takes
when he has a free-kick as he puts the
ball down he takes roughly seven steps
back six to seven steps and this is how
we start this run-up
you
roughly the angle that David Beckham
takes when he's approaching his ball is
a 90 degree angle so he approaches it
almost straight on with the goal to his
left with is using the right foot now
more commonly people approach him with
their three kids to come at an angle
about 45 degrees it's generally down to
what feels most comfortable for yourself
but in this instance I'm talking about
David Beckham's technique which we're
trying to learn today as he approaches
the ball at a 90 degree angle with the
goal face into his left the next step
Quebec was free-kick this is run up now
as he starts running you see that right
towards the end he almost jumps into the
ball with this final step so this is
almost a jump step I'll try and get that
that jump step for you to see camera
slow motion
you
so now that we've got the run up with
the jump step and we understand that the
next part that David Beckham does then
is technique as he his leg back
now basically what that means is he's
about to strike the ball already he's
loaded up this energy by bringing the
leg all the way up to his butt cheek and
this is what gives him the power when it
goes through so if you can imagine that
if I if I strike the ball and I'll come
closer there if I strike the ball and my
leg only starts from here and comes
through the amount of power that I
generate will be a lot less than if I
bring my leg all the way back through
and all the way there so that's what
Beckham does very well as he brings his
leg all the way up to generate that
power and it gives that fast motion that
will allow the speed and the depth to
take place
now that we've covered these three
points the first one the approach the
second the jump step and the third the
leg the fourth one that Beckham
does in his technique is as he's coming
up to the ball he tries to get his left
shoulder completely out the way and what
he's mastered is he's able to get his
arm all the way out the way in his chest
already facing the goal because that's
where he's kicking it so that's how he
gets the power when he's sitting his
free-kick
now if we're talking about the part of
the foot that Beckham uses when he's
hitting his free kicks it's also
dependent on where he's wanting to put
his free-kick so for example if he wants
to put his free-kick over the wall and
try and bend it into the top corner
there he would like to use more of the
instep here called sort of the toe area
and as he's striking the ball and
getting that curve the ball will curve
and and roll off the rest of his foot so
he strikes it here makes the point of
contact here and then the ball rolled
down the boot and this is what creates
the curve and the power so he's able to
get up over the wall from that difficult
90 degree angle just want to talk to you
a little bit about the ball and a part
that he strikes as well so if we're
looking at this ball here the part that
he's going to be striking if we imagine
there's a line through the middle of
this ball if he's going to be striking
over the wall if we go below this line
and aim to the right-hand side this is
the part that he's going to be hitting
so it's this sweet spot here and what
that what that allows us allows him to
as he strike and it come across it and
really wrap his foot around so that wrap
will allow him to get the ball over the
wall and up and over into that top
corner and it's very deceiving for a
goalkeeper so this is what makes him the
master of the side foot free-kick
because the accuracy and the power that
he's able to generate and how he
manipulates the ball using his foot
even get some gold
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more than a couple of people buy mad I
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so guys I hope you enjoyed the video and
you've enjoyed seeing some of the
techniques there of the Beckham
free-kick take those things away learn
them give them a go and if you enjoyed
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and like I said if you go away and you
try these techniques tell me how they
feel tell me how it was and how it
worked for you I'll be interested to
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