A study carried out by professional footballing squads including AC Milan, Olympic de Marseille, Bayer Leverkusen and Schalke using players between 19 and 34 years of age. The study was to find out if a curving ball can induce errors in the judgment of a final arrival position in top footballers. The study showed that when a ball is spinning in the air it was extremely difficult for a player to ju
dge where the ball would arrive at a given point (e.g. I depth knowledge of the game, skill and experience did not compensate for the visual perception of the player as to the direction and speed of the spinning ball. This means that a goalkeeper, for example, finds it harder to follow a ball in the air if it is spinning. So, we know why players curl or spin the ball. It makes it easier to SCORE A GOAL! And that is why players will spend hours and hour perfecting this skill. When a ball is in flight, spinning at around 600rpm (which is what a pro footballer achieves), Magnus Force will change its trajectory causing it to swerve either left or right, up or down (depending on the spin of the ball) which means, in order to get the ball to swerve in the first place, it has to spin. The idea is simple…
Why can't we just take the spinning ball out of the air, put it on the ground and then mold ourselves around that spinning ball? After all, that's exactly what we want it to be doing once we've kicked it. This training aid will teach a person to curl a ball as good, if not better than the best footballers in the world by taking that spin out of the air and putting it on the ground at the point where the player wants to strike it. Using this system, players will naturally learn how and where to place their feet before striking the ball, becoming star strikers in no time at all. By simply molding yourself around the spinning ball - you have learned to re-position yourself instantly. You feel things that a static ball couldn't give you, understanding where you need to apply the speed in your kick. It totally re-programs the way you even think about curling a ball and more importantly it gives you the technique that footballers train so hard to achieve.
