Heewon's Football School 100 skills
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Reverse Step-Over

Inside Step-Over

★★★☆☆ Age 8+ both feet Level 3 · Beat the Defender

The same move backwards. Your foot goes round the other way, so you leave on the inside.

Set it up like this. Ball in front. Someone close, watching your feet.

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

    SWINGSwing your foot round the inside of the ball this time.

  2. 2

    PLANTPut it down on the other side.

  3. 3

    INSIDETake the ball with the inside of your other foot.

  4. 4

    SPRINTGo past them on that side.

The five pictures from the book

Ball in front. Someone close, watching your feet.

7
1. Swing your foot round the inside of the ball this time.
7
2. Put it down on the other side.
7 INSIDE
3. Take the ball with the inside of your other foot.
7
4. Go past them on that side.

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 — Both ways

5 normal step-overs, then 5 reverse. 3 rounds.

Coach says

Inside swing, inside exit.

Watch out

  • Swinging the wrong way round.
  • Standing up tall in the middle of it.

Parts of the boot you use

INSIDE