Does Ball Mastery = Football Mastery?

Cones don’t tackle. They don’t close you down. They don’t force you to make a decision under pressure.

If your child spends hours dribbling around cones they get really good at one thing…

Dribbling around cones.

The same applies for unopposed ball mastery work.

12 years ago our sessions looked like this – skills, tricks unopposed ball mastery.

Then we asked ourselves whether any of it was showing up in games.

It wasn’t.

So we changed everything.

Now every session is opposed. Every activity looks and feels like football. Because that’s the only way to actually get better at it.