Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Outside Chop

Reverse Chop

★★★★☆ Age 9+ both feet Level 2 · Turns

You chop with the outside of the same foot. Nobody expects it, because your body is already leaning the other way.

Set it up like this. Running with the ball, leaning one way on purpose.

Study holds every step and names it. Flow runs them together at speed. Space bar plays and pauses; arrow keys step one frame.

  1. 1

    LEANLean hard as if you are going that way.

  2. 2

    REACHReach across the ball with your working foot.

  3. 3

    OUTSIDEChop it back with your little-toe edge.

  4. 4

    TURNSwing your body round and go.

The five pictures from the book

Running with the ball, leaning one way on purpose.

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1. Lean hard as if you are going that way.
7
2. Reach across the ball with your working foot.
7 OUTSIDE
3. Chop it back with your little-toe edge.
7
4. Swing your body round and go.

Where the ball actually goes

The strip shows you; this shows the ball. Every turn in this book is a shape on the grass.

The shape the ball draws

D 1 2 3 4 Seen from above · you start at the feet

At speed: push on, then chop it back hard.

Practise it — Lean and chop

8 each foot. Ask a friend which way they leaned.

Coach says

Lean one way. Chop the other.

Watch out

  • Not leaning enough, so there is nothing to fool.
  • Falling over because your feet are too close together.

Parts of the boot you use

OUTSIDE