A different part each touch
Ready when: Clear your side (b1) played.
What you are learning
Keeping the ball up with a different body part every touch: foot, thigh, chest, head, the other thigh, the other foot. Teqball's rules forbid the same part twice in a row, so changing parts has to become a habit.
Words on this card Touch, Body part, Juggling, Chest control
- Touch
- Each time a player plays the ball; at most three per side.
- Body part
- Any part used to play the ball, such as a foot, a thigh, the chest or the head; never the hands or arms.
- Juggling
- Keeping the ball up with repeated touches; a run of touches in a row.
- Chest control
- Stopping the ball with the chest; playing it with the forehead.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Drop the ball onto the thigh and pop it up.
- Next touch with the foot, then the chest, then the other thigh.
- Say each part aloud as you use it.
Your part while they practise
Call a body part before each touch.
Step by step
- Juggle with a new body part each touch.
- Foot, thigh, chest, head, the other thigh, the other foot.
- The juggling steps are in football.md.
How much: 5 tries 10 min a session 4 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Change chain
Count touches in a row with no part used twice running; beat your best chain.
Who plays: the child against their own best; you call parts.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Drop the ball and start
- Call the next part before each touch, or let the child choose
- Count until a miss or a repeat
- 5 tries
- Fair play
- A grown-up must use the part the child calls.
- Points
- 1 point for each touch in your best chain.
- Fouls
- The chain stops
- The same part twice in a row
- A touch with the hand or arm
- More than 3 headers in one chain
- Winning
- Beat your best chain.
- 3 points for 1 star
- 6 points for 2 stars
- 10 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
One bounce allowed between touches.
Use every allowed body part in one chain.
What you will see, and what to say
- the same foot twice
Change the part
New part each time. - the ball runs off
Soft touch, eyes on it
Gentle.
Self-check
6 touches in a row, no part used twice running.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains variety of touch, which the rules require.
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