In 2017 Sydney Swnas premiership coach Paul Roos released a book called Here It Is mostly detailing his rebuilding of the Melbourne Football Club of whicvh I did 3 different posts on.
I specific comment I remember from the book was one of the first things he wanted his players to be extremly good at was handling the ball when it was on the ground with pretty much everything bring built of clean hands.
Having clean hands has a multitude of game changing affects such as:
- Taking less time to gather ball leaving more time to make the correct decison
- Constantly making the opposition react to you essentially keeping them 1 step behind you
- Allows for your teammates to more easily play off of you
- Limits the opportunities of the opposition getting the ball
- Fast ball movement beats fast player movement every day of the year
As you make your way up grades of footy the cleanliness of handing the footy is what mostly separates the ordinary to the average to the good to the very good to the elite because at lower levels of footy you can always find players with similar endurance and max speed ability compared to the elite and skills also sometimes not being too far behind in some small cases.
But what allows you to display high skill?
Having time and space.
How do you get time and space?
Being clean with the ball.
It's not fancy and is pretty boring to train but if you can't pick the ball up then anything else you have to beat your opponent doesn't really matter because you'll rarely get to use it effectively.
Here's some at home drills you can do tomorrow while we're all isolated, toimprove your ball handling in different situations.
WALL HANDBALL REBOUND...
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