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How to start with football freestyle

So you're new to the subject of freestyle, I suggest you read this article
or you just take a football, watch some videos and get out and practice
those skills.

Freestyle can be practiced by anyone, you don't have to be a footballer or
an ex footballer, anyone that wants to learn some new and cool tricks can
do it. All you need is a football size 5. Some people prefer to juggle
barefeet and some don't, if you don't then I would recomend you to go to
the closest sportsstore and try some indoor or turf shoes. When you have a
pair that you personally like then buy them. If you don't have the cash to
spend on your dream shoes then I'm sure that your mum and dad maybe wants
to sponsor you with your new shoes which will get you into football
freestyle.

Now you're ready to start. The easiest way to start getting good in
juggling is just to juggle the ball. If you can't juggle the ball more
then two times maybe you should try and just kick the ball in the air, let
it bounce against the ground, kick it again, let it bounce and kep doing
that until you've got control over this. Then you can move on to just
regular juggling without letting it bounce on the ground. In the beginning
you will probably get very frustrated and just feel like quitting, but
don't. The joy and happyness you will feel once you've done 100 kickups
will be huge, and for each success this feeling will be bigger and bigger.
A tip here would be that everytime you reach to a certain goal you will
reward yourself. Maybe you will go on that awesome movie on the cinema
with your girlfriend, but first you gotta make 25 headers.

To balance the ball on your foot is also very basic, if you can't balance
the ball then just take the ball with your hands and put it into the
position. Try and search for the spot on your foot where the ball is
steady. Just focus on keeping it on your foot. Then you can juggle, do a
coupple of kickups and then catch it on your foot. Exactly how to balance
the ball is slightly different from freestyler to freestyler, some balance
it on the front part of the foot, others "lock" the ball between the toes
and the shin(if you can do this you are pretty lucky, this will make some
cool tricks possible for you). So just try and find your unique way to
balance the ball on the foot.

Now the fun part starts, the footballtricks. I suggest that you visit our
tutorial section to learn some of the most basic tricks there is, such as
ATW, HTW, Neckstall and so on. When you've mastered the basics you should
move on, and in case we havn't reached to the more advanced tricks in our
tutorial section I suggest that you have a look at all the videos in our
video section. Then you try and figure out how you could do the same
tricks as in the movie you just watched, then you just start practicing. A
good tip is to be able to do the basics very well before you move on to
the more advanced tricks.

I guess now is the time for you to get this party started. Most important
of everything is to have fun, alot of fun. If you don't enjoy to stand
there alone trying to pull of all those tricks then call your best friend
and try to get him into the beautiful sport of football freestyle. Voila,
now you're two and that makes it alot more fun.

I hope this article gets you into freestyling and if it did, the Freestyle
Factory crew would be more then happy to know about your sucess, so send
an email to info@freestylefactory.net and tell us, we mean it!

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