Free Kick Tutorial - How To Shoot A Knuckle ball like a PRO

Hi everybody and welcome to our first tutorial

Today we will teach you how to shoot a perfect knuckleball

It won't take much time to find such tutorial on youtube

But today we're going to show you our technique

So, Let's GO!

First thing of any kick is run-up

To perform a knuckleball you need to stand in 3-5 steps

And you should stand in 35-45 degrees angle

Also a run-up is not so important as a kick itself

And its technique may differ

In our case we do all our steps on toes (or last 2 steps)

Next part of the run-up is the place of supporting foot

It must be placed in 15-20 cm from the ball

A little bit bended in ankle

Your toe must follow the direction of the kick

Now let's talk about the kick itself

The thing is to have less spin of the ball

In this case you have knuckleball effect

You have to hit a little bit lower the center of the ball

But not too much

If you kick too low the ball would go surely high

Or it would have backspin

In our opinion it is better to use the spot

between your instep and middle of ankle-joint

It is the most solid part of the foot

Also you should strain your foot as much as possible

For excluding relaxed foot

Try not to lean back while hitting the ball

Keep your body straight

Or slightly lean forward

It will help you to reduce ball spinning

Also it will help you to have more direction control of the ball

Now we will talk about very important part of the tutorial

It is the follow-through

Our goal is to have less spinning of the ball

Before hitting the ball you should slightly rotate your foot outwards

And to make it move distinctly to the direction of your strike

Nieghter left nor right

But the point is to make a max-quick move

And after that stop your leg immediately

You just have to feel this moment

At first you move your hip and shin

Then the hip stops, while your shin continues to move

Afterwards you stop the shin and make something like a slap

Sometimes it is easier to do it with a little hop

Try to work-out this movement without a ball

or in small distance to the goal

Finally we would like to tell some words about balls and football boots

There is no difference what cleats you choose

They only should be comefortable

We prefer to use original footballs (Adidas, Nike)

Like Adidas Speedcell, Europass, Teamgeist or Brazuca

These all are official match balls