How important is juggling?

[Anonymous]

I know the benefits of juggling, but my DD gets easily bored doing it. She can routinely get between 20-25 juggles.

She prefers doing “wall ball”. She usually does 150-200 one-touch kick Wall Balls. These one touch kicks include volleys

Hence my question. Is Wall Ball Kicks a good alternative to juggles or is this a completely different skill?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the benefits of juggling, but my DD gets easily bored doing it. She can routinely get between 20-25 juggles.

She prefers doing “wall ball”. She usually does 150-200 one-touch kick Wall Balls. These one touch kicks include volleys

Hence my question. Is Wall Ball Kicks a good alternative to juggles or is this a completely different skill?

ANYTHING that a kid will do on their beyond practice will be beneficial. If she enjoys wall ball and will do it consistently that is all that matters.

[Anonymous]

So touched on a soccer ball is what matters most than, regardless of how you go about it? Yes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So touched on a soccer ball is what matters most than, regardless of how you go about it? Yes?

Yes, touches are all that matter when away from practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So touched on a soccer ball is what matters most than, regardless of how you go about it? Yes?

Yes, touches are all that matter when away from practice.

+1. But I want to point out that Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect, but rather Practice Makes Permanent. Hence, if a player practices with bad form/technic, it can become permanent too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So touched on a soccer ball is what matters most than, regardless of how you go about it? Yes?

Yes, touches are all that matter when away from practice.

+1. But I want to point out that Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect, but rather Practice Makes Permanent. Hence, if a player practices with bad form/technic, it can become permanent too.

True. Variety can make it more interesting and productive. It’s great to develop touch with juggling or ball wall. But also good to practice touch on the run and from longer passes in the air. Related skills but different from juggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know the benefits of juggling, but my DD gets easily bored doing it. She can routinely get between 20-25 juggles.

She prefers doing “wall ball”. She usually does 150-200 one-touch kick Wall Balls. These one touch kicks include volleys

Hence my question. Is Wall Ball Kicks a good alternative to juggles or is this a completely different skill?

Yes I think Wall Ball is probably better than Juggling for developing First Touch. The good thing about Juggling is you can do it almost anywhere (e.g. - basement) which allows a kid to do it whenever they want. But if your DD has regular access to a Wall, I think that probably simulates First Touch in a game better than Juggling. With either, I think continued improvement and benefit is dependent on the player mixing it up and challenging themselves. That's where the 1000+ juggles could be sub-optimal. In order to get that type of consistency with any skill you need to do it in a very consistent and repetitive manner. When you get to that level of consistency, I am not sure how much 1000 times vs 500 times vs 100 times is really developing additional skill that will translate to the game.

[Anonymous]

Both wall-ball and juggling are good to work on "by yourself" skill training. It is, however, very important to be good a juggling from an individual player perspective. Juggling is something the player can do "by herself" when she shows up for a practice or tryout -- which you always want to do early. You want to be one of the first kids there, if not the first. Juggling, and doing trick skills while juggling, are important to getting coaches noticing you. And, since there are few kids around early -- they will watch out of the corner of their eye. It will get attention, and that can lead to more opportunities.