U8-U10 Clinic over tonight

We finished the 8 week U8-10.  I only worked 6 weeks of it but I am glad I did.  Working with the younger players was very helpful for me and I hope I was helpful to them.

Tonight, after doing some footwork with the agility ladders we went straight into dribbling and turns.  We did turns for 45 minutes and I decided to really push them tonight to see how much we could get out of them.  By the end of the session some of the kids were really letting themselves go and showing me some great stuff.

I find that with dribbling and 1v1 moves, once a player knows they can and get a little bit of confidence and the "feel" or having the ball, the rate of progress increases rapidly.

My group only had 12 players.  We then split them into two 3v3 games where you score by dribbling through a goal because I wanted to see if they would adapt their turns and moves in a game situation.  All but 3 were heading in the right direction.  We then got into our 6v6 half field game and it was nice to see that very few of them were meeting the ball and sending it away on a one-time kick. 

What's sad about clinics is you think to yourself "if only I had 2 more sessions with them".  I will see most of them over the summer with their respective teams and hopefully work with them again.