Spend approximately 20 minutes of your practice on Footskills
 

Easy Warmups that Focus on Footskills:

• Use cones to form square "field"
• Everyone has a ball and is dribbling around in the square
• Coach calls out instructions and kids have to execute the "move" 
• Set up flags or cones inside your box and tell them to treat the flag/cone as a defender and "beat it" 
  • I.E. - dribble straight at a cone, then "beat" it with the move
• Many coaches like to use different code words to make the kids concentrate/think more
  • Colors: blue = cut, red = pull back, etc. -OR-
  • Make a pizza:  pepperoni = cut, green peppers = pull back etc. 
• Alternatively, use cones to dribble around (i.e. lines)
  • Make it fun and competitive, see if they can beat the clock, beat their own score, or have races!
  • Lots of patterns
    • "S" serpentine in and out of cones - use the cones to encourage a change of speed, use one foot only, use the bottom of your foot to pull the ball to the side of the cone, etc.
    • You can usually have multiple kids running through the cones at a time to keep them focused and avoids them standing around in a line
• Obstacle Course
  • Be creative - your course should be big enough that 3/4 of the group is on the course at any given time, so that your "line" at the start is quite short