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[quote=Anonymous]My 9-year-old did about 500 and just after he is now 10 and up to about 1,200. He's done this though as a bit of a challenge as his older brother is in the 1,000s as well and they like to compete with each other. But as others mentioned with Cruyff's comment, it's really just repetitive motion of the same thing after you get into the groove.

He's now working on making some tricks and moving it around a bit while juggling. It has improved his first touch a bit but he's learned more valuable skills playing pickup with his older brother and their friends.

While it is good for your touch and feel of the ball, it's also pretty effective as an introduction or psycho-out technique. When he goes and plays with some new kids at the playground that he doesn't know, he often starts by juggling off in the corner and after about 50-100 taps the kids are like "hey, why don't you play on our team". He also did it once in a 3x3 tournament where the other team was really trash talking his team before the game while they waited for the referee. He didn't say anything but just took the ball and started juggling. After about 50 touches the other kids just shut up and by about 200 I think they were pretty nervous. [/quote]

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