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Anonymous wrote:Arlington red are a dumpster fire as-is and have been all year. Expect them not advancing at ASIST. All of the families are praying the season ends ASAP!

So where are they going?

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Anonymous wrote:Don't move the goalposts. Let's be clear. Not a juggle in one second. Two juggles PER SECOND. For 1000 juggles. Still waiting for any video of anyone doing 120 juggles in 1 minute.

I do not understand why you are so adamant about this. I just watch my 11 year DD do it. The coach was making them record their juggling. It’s really boring and she was losing track of how many she did. So I had her juggle for 30 second and count how many juggles. It was consistently 2 juggles per second. How high is your kid kicking the ball for 1 juggle per second? Have your kid keep it below the knee, really about 6 inches off her foot.

There is no way your kid is going for 17 minutes at 1 juggles per second to get to 1000. Just not going to happen. She will either get too bored and stop or increase her speed long before that.

You will see when your DD gets older and more serious with soccer that it does not matter how they juggle. Look how sloppy Rose Lavelle was at juggling. Hitting with the side of her foot? Not keeping it below the knee? Did not matter.

It should be a ref flag if coach is making them record their juggling. At the higher levels, everyone can juggle. If your kid is bored, move on to another exercise. Maybe find a new team.

Nobody is saying that at U15 juggling matters. We are talking about skill building for 10-12 year old's. Frankly, if you CAN"T juggle by 12 you likely have lousy first touch. There is no magic number for juggling but to not be able to juggle only shows a lack of comfort and control of the ball.

If you have good touch picking up juggling should be a piece of cake and would not be a giant waste of time.

If you are 10-12 follow the video posted earlier. The whole thing. Don't pick one exercise and spend hours on it. Whether it's juggling or Cruyff's. It's a waste of time. Just remember, the best freestylers don't play soccer.

Who the hell said that is all one should work on? Stop with the free style crap. The world isn't one thing or the other. A kid can learn to juggle without losing development time to other soccer related things. Juglging is a skill that 9-13 year old kids work on. After that it is just a thing that kids will do to kill time nothing more, nothing less.

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Arlington. Lol

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stop relying on advice from this forum and ask a professional coach with a good reputation for developing youth players.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't move the goalposts. Let's be clear. Not a juggle in one second. Two juggles PER SECOND. For 1000 juggles. Still waiting for any video of anyone doing 120 juggles in 1 minute.

I do not understand why you are so adamant about this. I just watch my 11 year DD do it. The coach was making them record their juggling. It’s really boring and she was losing track of how many she did. So I had her juggle for 30 second and count how many juggles. It was consistently 2 juggles per second. How high is your kid kicking the ball for 1 juggle per second? Have your kid keep it below the knee, really about 6 inches off her foot.

There is no way your kid is going for 17 minutes at 1 juggles per second to get to 1000. Just not going to happen. She will either get too bored and stop or increase her speed long before that.

You will see when your DD gets older and more serious with soccer that it does not matter how they juggle. Look how sloppy Rose Lavelle was at juggling. Hitting with the side of her foot? Not keeping it below the knee? Did not matter.

It should be a ref flag if coach is making them record their juggling. At the higher levels, everyone can juggle. If your kid is bored, move on to another exercise. Maybe find a new team.

Nobody is saying that at U15 juggling matters. We are talking about skill building for 10-12 year old's. Frankly, if you CAN"T juggle by 12 you likely have lousy first touch. There is no magic number for juggling but to not be able to juggle only shows a lack of comfort and control of the ball.

If you have good touch picking up juggling should be a piece of cake and would not be a giant waste of time.

If you are 10-12 follow the video posted earlier. The whole thing. Don't pick one exercise and spend hours on it. Whether it's juggling or Cruyff's. It's a waste of time. Just remember, the best freestylers don't play soccer.

Who the hell said that is all one should work on? Stop with the free style crap. The world isn't one thing or the other. A kid can learn to juggle without losing development time to other soccer related things. Juglging is a skill that 9-13 year old kids work on. After that it is just a thing that kids will do to kill time nothing more, nothing less.

We are in agreement. Some poster previously gave the bad advice that the top soccer players juggle at this age in the 1000s. It's a good way to kill time. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Anonymous wrote:To the dad that said his kid has a chance after seeing Rose juggle? Nope. It's a false indicator. Rose just proves that juggling is BS.

How so?

Again, her juggling demonstrated commitment to working towards improving a skill or a goal and it demonstrated comfort with the ball.

It may not have created comfort with the ball but it sure as hell demonstrated comfort with the ball. How hard is this to understand?

How so? She was terrible at juggling per the juggling parents. Less than one per second. Above the knee. Terrible. That's the point. Yet she is world class.

She moved the ball around quite well from knee to foot to knee to landing on her chest and her neck.

The comfort it takes to land a ball on her neck when you lose sight of it is not easy. She had tremendous kinesthesia with the ball at a young age.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't move the goalposts. Let's be clear. Not a juggle in one second. Two juggles PER SECOND. For 1000 juggles. Still waiting for any video of anyone doing 120 juggles in 1 minute.

I do not understand why you are so adamant about this. I just watch my 11 year DD do it. The coach was making them record their juggling. It’s really boring and she was losing track of how many she did. So I had her juggle for 30 second and count how many juggles. It was consistently 2 juggles per second. How high is your kid kicking the ball for 1 juggle per second? Have your kid keep it below the knee, really about 6 inches off her foot.

There is no way your kid is going for 17 minutes at 1 juggles per second to get to 1000. Just not going to happen. She will either get too bored and stop or increase her speed long before that.

You will see when your DD gets older and more serious with soccer that it does not matter how they juggle. Look how sloppy Rose Lavelle was at juggling. Hitting with the side of her foot? Not keeping it below the knee? Did not matter.

It should be a ref flag if coach is making them record their juggling. At the higher levels, everyone can juggle. If your kid is bored, move on to another exercise. Maybe find a new team.

Nobody is saying that at U15 juggling matters. We are talking about skill building for 10-12 year old's. Frankly, if you CAN"T juggle by 12 you likely have lousy first touch. There is no magic number for juggling but to not be able to juggle only shows a lack of comfort and control of the ball.

If you have good touch picking up juggling should be a piece of cake and would not be a giant waste of time.

If you are 10-12 follow the video posted earlier. The whole thing. Don't pick one exercise and spend hours on it. Whether it's juggling or Cruyff's. It's a waste of time. Just remember, the best freestylers don't play soccer.

Who the hell said that is all one should work on? Stop with the free style crap. The world isn't one thing or the other. A kid can learn to juggle without losing development time to other soccer related things. Juglging is a skill that 9-13 year old kids work on. After that it is just a thing that kids will do to kill time nothing more, nothing less.

We are in agreement. Some poster previously gave the bad advice that the top soccer players juggle at this age in the 1000s. It's a good way to kill time. Nothing more, nothing less.

No, we are not quite in agreement. Great players love the ball and they will play with it at their feet whenever they can. Juggling is a part of that. You truly don't understand. It isn't a means to an end. Great players have an addiction to the ball and if there isn't soccer to be played then they will play with the ball at their feet whenever and wherever they can. It doesn't mean they are into freestyle, it just means they are skilled with he ball and spend hours upon hours on the ball.

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Anonymous wrote:To the dad that said his kid has a chance after seeing Rose juggle? Nope. It's a false indicator. Rose just proves that juggling is BS.

How so?

Again, her juggling demonstrated commitment to working towards improving a skill or a goal and it demonstrated comfort with the ball.

It may not have created comfort with the ball but it sure as hell demonstrated comfort with the ball. How hard is this to understand?

How so? She was terrible at juggling per the juggling parents. Less than one per second. Above the knee. Terrible. That's the point. Yet she is world class.

She moved the ball around quite well from knee to foot to knee to landing on her chest and her neck.

The comfort it takes to land a ball on her neck when you lose sight of it is not easy. She had tremendous kinesthesia with the ball at a young age.

+1. Rose was not juggling. That's just having fun with the ball.

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Juggling is dumb. Just get your touches in. Have fun with the ball. If you are worried about how many juggles in a period of time and proper juggling form - you are a moron.

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Anonymous wrote:Juggling is dumb. Just get your touches in. Have fun with the ball. If you are worried about how many juggles in a period of time and proper juggling form - you are a moron.

Says every parent of a kid who can't juggle at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Juggling is dumb. Just get your touches in. Have fun with the ball. If you are worried about how many juggles in a period of time and proper juggling form - you are a moron.

Says every parent of a kid who can't juggle at all.

You fall into the moron group.

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Anonymous wrote:Juggling is dumb. Just get your touches in. Have fun with the ball. If you are worried about how many juggles in a period of time and proper juggling form - you are a moron.

Says every parent of a kid who can't juggle at all.

You fall into the moron group.

Kid can't juggle, that is fine. I'm sure she is big and fast and can send it real far though.

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^This forum is full of jealous parents whose kids can’t do more than 10 correct juggles and YET believe their DDs will make the national team. They are posting all kind of excuses about juggling.

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Anonymous wrote:Juggling is dumb. Just get your touches in. Have fun with the ball. If you are worried about how many juggles in a period of time and proper juggling form - you are a moron.

Says every parent of a kid who can't juggle at all.

You fall into the moron group.

Kid can't juggle, that is fine. I'm sure she is big and fast and can send it real far though.

Kid juggles fine. Not sure if it's 30 or 100. But it is fine.

So your kid is neither big or fast. Juggling is your solution. I'm sure the juggling can compensate for her lack of athleticism.

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Anonymous wrote:^This forum is full of jealous parents whose kids can’t do more than 10 correct juggles and YET believe their DDs will make the national team. They are posting all kind of excuses about juggling.

Exactly and nobody has even stated how much constitutes juggling. Nobody has claimed a magic number only that the ability to juggle demonstrates a comfort with the ball.