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07/31/2026

Yesterday we worked on creating immediate trajectory—getting the ball off the ground quickly.

Today wasn’t about getting the ball into the air.

It was about touch.

Can you chip a ball 17 yards… 27 yards… or 34 yards with the same soft quality, the same controlled backspin, and the same tempo every single time?

That’s what separates players who can simply lift the ball from players who can consistently deliver passes their teammates love to receive.

A great clipped pass doesn’t just reach its target—it arrives with enough backspin and softness that your teammate can bring it down effortlessly and play the next action.

One of the biggest mistakes I see is players only practicing this technique in cleats.

Take your shoes off.

Train your feet to feel the ball.

Barefoot training gives your nervous system information that a boot simply can’t. That increased sensory feedback develops the touch and awareness required to reproduce the same quality ball over and over again.

You’ll also notice something else in this video…

The rhythm and tempo never change.

When the tempo is repeatable, the touch becomes repeatable.

Technique creates the outcome.

Rhythm makes it reliable.

07/30/2026

One of the very first questions I ask every player is:

“What’s at the top of your mind today?”

I don’t ask because I don’t have a plan. I ask because if something is occupying a player’s mind, it’s influencing every repetition they take.

Too often, coaches guide every second of the session without ever discovering what the athlete is thinking or feeling. Curiosity is one of the most powerful coaching tools we have. When a player feels heard—and we can solve the problem that’s creating uncertainty—the confidence gained in a single session can be extraordinary.

Today, she told me she wanted to improve her long balls.

Within minutes, we discovered one of the biggest limitations: her plant foot was too close to the ball.

That one detail restricted the natural shape of her striking foot, limited the freedom of her leg swing, and made it almost impossible to consistently generate the trajectory, height, and distance she was capable of producing.

You’ll notice we’re working from the 6-yard box trying to hit—or even clear—the crossbar.

That wasn’t random.

It was intentional.

If a player can consistently create that trajectory from such a short distance, they have the technical capacity to produce virtually any long ball the game demands. Sometimes the best way to develop distance isn’t by kicking farther—it’s by mastering the mechanics in a much smaller space.

This reel is packed with details. Watch closely. There are small adjustments here that can completely change how you think about long-ball technique.

And one final thought…

Sometimes the greatest confidence boost doesn’t come from giving players more information.

It comes from asking a better question first.

07/29/2026

Most players are taught that the purpose of the first touch is simply to keep the ball close.

At the highest levels, that’s only the beginning.

I’m back in South Florida for my second visit in just a few months working with an incredibly gifted young player, and today our entire session revolved around one thing: the first touch.

A great first touch is intentional. It is taken with the second action already in mind.

Every detail matters:
• How far the ball finishes from your body.
• The angle of the touch.
• The type of spin on the ball.
• The exact location of the ball to set up your next action.
• And perhaps most importantly… taking the touch in a way that allows you to keep your eyes up instead of looking down to find the ball.

The goal isn’t just to execute good technique.

The goal is to understand why the technique creates the outcome.

That is the foundation of everything I teach.

I don’t want my players to need me forever. I want them to become their own best coach.

When they understand the relationship between movement and outcome, they can instantly recognize what changed, make the adjustment, and self-correct without waiting for someone on the sideline to tell them.

Repetition builds habits.

Understanding builds independence.

And in my experience, players who understand how and why consistently develop faster than players who simply repeat what they’re told.

Because the best players don’t just perform the skill…

They understand it.

07/28/2026

Must watch to the end to see the full progression!

A few weeks ago I traveled to Connecticut to work with two exceptional young players who have spent the last several years developing in Argentina and the Ivory Coast. Their goal was simple: generate more power, more whip, and more accuracy on curled shots.

This reel shows the entire progression—from the very first exercise we introduced to the final progression two days later.

This wasn’t about magic.
It was about precision.

Here are the five details we cleaned up:

1️⃣ Increase the tempo to the ball. Their approach was too slow, limiting power and whip.

2️⃣ Find your approach angle. Every player’s flexibility, hip mobility, and leg swing are different. Once we discovered their unique angle, we repeated it over and over until it became consistent.

3️⃣ Keep the chest on the approach angle. Like most players, they rotated their chest toward the goal before contact. When the chest rotates, the hips rotate… and the ball is naturally pulled toward the middle of the goal instead of the far side netting.

4️⃣ Standardize the follow-through height. Different follow-throughs create different outcomes. Consistency of movement creates consistency of results.

5️⃣ Sharpen the footwork. Lighter, quicker, more purposeful feet during the approach created a more explosive action.

⚠️ As with every technical video I post, this is not every ingredient that goes into an elite curled shot. Today’s focus is on these five details because they were the limiting factors for these two players.

Learning to whip the ball from a tight angle into the far side netting is difficult. It demands patience, repetition, attention to detail, and a willingness to fail hundreds of times before it becomes second nature.

If you’re serious about developing this technique—whether you’re starting from scratch or refining an already strong foundation—this progression is the blueprint

07/27/2026

Nearly every player I evaluate—field players and goalkeepers alike—makes the same mistake.

They look up too early.

They’re trying to watch the ball they just struck, but they don’t realize what happens to the rest of the body when they do.

The instant the head lifts, the kicking-side shoulder is pulled forward. As the shoulder comes forward, the hip naturally follows. If that rotation happens before the ball has completely left the foot, it introduces unwanted sidespin, causing the ball to curve.

So instead of constantly telling this goalkeeper, “Keep your head down,” I gave her a task.

I placed a cone beside the ball.

After every strike, she had to reach down and pick up the cone before she was allowed to look up.

That simple external cue forced her eyes to stay down just a fraction longer. As a result, her right shoulder stayed back, her hip remained square through contact, and the unwanted right-to-left curve nearly disappeared.

The more disciplined she became with the cone drill, the straighter and more repeatable her long balls became.

But that wasn’t the only discovery.

She was also struggling to generate distance.

We found that her backswing was too low, limiting how much force she could create. By increasing the height and length of her backswing, her kicking knee naturally dropped into a stronger position, allowing her to recruit more power from her hip and core.

On her very next repetition, she absolutely hammered a ball from roughly 35 yards.

Two small technical adjustments.

One dramatically different outcome.

One important reminder: This reel focuses on only two variables—head position and backswing. There are many factors that influence long-ball distribution, including approach angle, plant foot position, contact point, posture, follow-through, and timing. But for this player, these were the two details creating the biggest limitations.

07/26/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions in power shooting is believing that accuracy is determined only by where you strike the ball or where your plant foot is.

It isn’t.

What happens after contact matters just as much.

If you’re striking a power shot with your laces, lock your ankle through contact and continue your follow-through by pointing your toe directly at your intended target—almost like a ballerina.

In most cases, your foot is communicating the direction you want the ball to travel. very similar logic to why a basketball player follows thru exactly towards the middle of the rim, not to high, too low or right or left…. Same principle.

If your follow-through finishes toward your target, your chances of hitting that target increase dramatically.

If your follow-through finishes climbing above the height of the crossbar (distance will influence this, of course), the ball is far more likely to sail over the goal.

Here’s a simple drill:

🎯 Hang a cone, bib, or shirt exactly where you want the ball to go.

Now don’t just look at the target before you strike.

Finish by pointing your toe at that target, exaggerate the point.!!!! I can’t stress this enough.

Train your body to communicate the same message from start to finish.

⚠️ As always, this video focuses on one specific technical detail. There are other variables that influence ball flight—plant foot position, body posture, contact point, tempo, and approach angle—but today we’re isolating one variable because mastering one detail at a time is how consistent technique is built.

Try this for 10 minutes and let me know what changes.

I think you’ll be surprised how much your accuracy improves.

07/24/2026

When we talk about becoming a more consistent ball striker, we often focus on the foot, the plant foot, or the follow-through.

But sometimes the biggest improvement comes from what you stop doing.

In this session, we removed unnecessary movement from his upper body. During his approach and just after contact, he was excessively crunching forward. It may seem insignificant, but every unnecessary movement introduces another opportunity for error.

Even more importantly, it creates two major problems:

1️⃣ If you crunch too early, you’ve already used much of your core before the moment it’s needed most. Instead of transferring power through your body into the ball, you’re left relying more on your hip flexors and leg swing.

2️⃣ As you crunch downward, your pelvis and hips are pushed backward, changing the angle and arc of your kicking leg. Even small changes in that arc create different contact points and different outcomes.

One of my favorite cues is simple:

Imagine balancing a glass of water on top of your head throughout your approach.

This encourages your posture to remain quiet, balanced, and efficient until the moment your body naturally moves through the strike.

Remember…

Power isn’t just about adding more force.
Often it’s about removing everything that steals it.

The more unnecessary movement you eliminate, the more repeatable your technique becomes.

⚠️ As always, this video isolates one technical detail. There are many factors that contribute to an elite strike, but today we’re focusing only on reducing unnecessary upper-body movement.

07/23/2026

The goal of every video I share is not to teach everything that goes into a technique. It’s to isolate one variable that can create a meaningful improvement.

So before commenting about the dozens of other things that matter in a free kick… I agree with you.

They matter.

They’re just not what we’re working on today.

In this session with Sebastian Bourget , the problem wasn’t power. It wasn’t ball contact. It wasn’t his approach angle or body position.

It was consistency.

His follow-through finished at a different height almost every repetition, and his tempo into the ball changed from kick to kick. If those two variables are constantly changing, the outcome will constantly change as well.

So we focused on just two things:

• A consistent follow-through height
• A consistent tempo into the ball, same speed every time
*Once you discover the unique follow thru height for your ideal ball and your mechanics and mobility

Once those became repeatable, the results changed almost immediately. His ability to consistently hit the target improved dramatically.

That’s how development works.

You don’t improve by trying to fix ten things at once.

You improve by identifying the one variable creating the biggest inconsistency, mastering it, and then moving on to the next detail.

Master one variable at a time, and eventually the entire technique becomes repeatable.

Technique isn’t built through information overload or just reps. It’s built through intentional repetition around a single objective.

07/23/2026

The mental aspect of this game is where many players quietly struggle.

Over the last two days in Denver, I had the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented college player from British Columbia who is returning from a long knee injury. During our sessions, two moments stood out.

The first was something I call the Blade of Grass Reset I created.

When a mistake happens, pick up a blade of grass and hold it for a moment.

In your mind or out loud,
“This (blade of grass) is my mistake. I AM NOT my mistake. I choose to release it so it no@longer has power over me.”

Then drop the grass… and then immediately snap your fingers.

Over time, your brain begins to associate the physical action and the sound of the snap with letting go. What starts as a deliberate routine eventually becomes a single finger snap that instantly reminds your nervous system to reset and move forward.

Because your next action should never be controlled by your last mistake.

The second moment came on the final ball of the session.

Like so many players, she said, “One more” or “Last one” and that turns in to 6 or 10 more.

I asked her to resist the temptation to need that last ball to be perfect.

When you can leave the field without needing that final ball to justify your day, you’ve taken one of the biggest steps in performance. You’ve stopped asking outcomes to define your worth and started trusting the process instead. Ironically, that’s when pressure begins to fade, presence begins to grow, and your best performances become possible.

07/22/2026

After a lengthy recovery from a knee injury, I had the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented college player from British Columbia, we met in Denver.

One of the first things we evaluated was her long ball technique. It didn’t take long to identify one of the biggest limiting factors—her plant foot was simply too close to the ball.

When your plant foot is too narrow, you restrict your body’s ability to create leverage and get your foot into@its optimal foot position, limiting both trajectory and power before you even make contact.

In this first video, we focused on nothing more than the width and depth of the plant foot. That’s it.

The difference in the quality of her strikes was almost immediate.

So often, players chase bigger swings, stronger legs, or more complicated solutions, when the breakthrough is found in mastering the fundamentals.

Small technical refinements, repeated consistently, create massive long-term results.

This is Part 1 of a few videos breaking down her progress.

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