my daughter is 11 and very small. She is about 4'5" tall and 62 pounds. But she is a very strong and consistant runner both in long distance and sprints. She runs a 6min 40 sec mile. But her coach is worried about her leg strength. Since she plays outside mid and they are moving to 11 V 11 next season. (she is playing up U-12/U-13 competitive). My daughter wants to know how she can develop her leg strenght and volocity to beable to cross fields in one kick. Is this going to be hard for her since she is so small? How can we work on this effectively? She trains 4 days aweek as is so any corrections would be helpful. She wants this so badly!
We ordered the video and alson would like to know which sections to focus most on and what tools would be most helpful for her to work with.
crazykeeper wrote: Where was the other post? I would like to read the response.
Thanks. Here it is again.
Hi Lori...
She will learn from the video about "impact zone".
Most players have a tendency to put too much effort into their kick after contact has been made. We call this "the excessive push through". When you guys watch the video make sure you understand about the "explosion point" at and just through the ball. Everything after that doesn't matter. (The ball is gone.) The line drill we do should help greatly.
Also if you want to send a video of her kicking, I will review and offer some help.
Feel free to PM me through this board and I can take a look.
