Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Beardsley Shimmy

The Shimmy

★★★☆☆ Age 8+ both feet Level 2 · Turns

You lift a knee like you are sprinting off. Then you do not. Do it twice and they freeze.

Set it up like this. Ball still, right in front of your toes.

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

    KNEE UPLift your knee high, like you are sprinting off.

  2. 2

    HIPSSwing your hips that way as well.

  3. 3

    REPEATPut the foot down and do it again the other way.

  4. 4

    OUTSIDENow really go, with your little-toe edge.

The five pictures from the book

Ball still, right in front of your toes.

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1. Lift your knee high, like you are sprinting off.
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2. Swing your hips that way as well.
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3. Put the foot down and do it again the other way.
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4. Now really go, with your little-toe edge.

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

Angled past their shoulder, then gone.

Practise it — Two shimmies

Two fakes then sprint 5 steps. 10 times.

Coach says

Knee up, hips out, twice.

Watch out

  • Only moving your feet, not your hips.
  • Doing it so long they take the ball.

Parts of the boot you use

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