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ASPIRING SOCCER PLAYERS:
DRIBBLING THE SOCCER BALL OR FOOTBALL: NEW WAYS OF PRACTICING AND
PLAYING
In order to excel in soccer, you cannot trust your coach or
the books you happen to read or the people you happen to talk to as being a
sufficient source of information. What works for the great players may not work
for you because you are different from the great players as a result of your
environment your free will and your genetics. Those who have developed winning
secrets more than likely will not be willing to share them with you. In order to
excel, you need to understand it is important to be clever when you practice and
clever when you compete. There are clever ways of practicing and playing and
there are simple minded ways of practicing and playing. Do not understimate the
importance of the mental factor. I present to you here ways of practicing and
playing that were never tought to me by fellow players or books or coaches.
PRACTICING DRIBBLING THE SOCCER BALL ON THE GROUND
When
you practice dribbling the soccer ball or football on the ground, establish
footwork-based patterns and adhere to them.
Pattern 1: As you jog
forward with the ball, touch the ball with the left foot every time the left
foot hits the ground and also touch the ball with the right foot every time the
right foot hits the ground.
Pattern 2: As you jog forward with the
ball, touch the ball with the left foot every time the left foot hits the ground
but never touch the ball with your right foot.
Pattern 3: As you jog
forward with the ball, touch the ball with the right foot every time the right
foot hits the ground but never touch the ball with your left foot.
Pattern 4: As you jog forward with the ball, touch the ball with the
left foot, then step forward without touching the ball with the right foot and
the left foot, then touch the ball with your right foot and step forward without
touching the ball with your left and right feet, and so on and so forth so that
you are alternatively touching the ball with the left and the right feet.
Pattern 5: As you jog forward with the ball, touch the ball with the
left foot every other time the left foot hits the ground but never touch the
ball with your right foot.
Pattern 6: As you jog forward with the
ball, touch the ball with the right foot every other time the right foot hits
the ground but never touch the ball with your left foot.
Pattern 7:
As you jog forward with the ball, touch the ball with the left foot, then step
forward without touching the ball with the right foot and the left foot, and the
right foot and the left again for a total of four steps; then touch the ball
with your right foot and step forward without touching the ball with your left
and right and again left and right feet for a total of four steps, and so on and
so forth so that you are alternatively touching the ball with the left and the
right feet.
When we were teenagers we used to admire the natural
graceful easy effortless control over the ball shown by players who were from
countries where children from an early age often played soccer. Practicing the
above patterns will help you to develop such effortless natural ease of
dribbling with the soccer ball (football).
DRIBBLING THE SOCCER BALL
(FOOTBALL) IN COMPETITION
When you dribble the soccer ball in
competition, if you are left footed, attack a defender by using your left foot
dribbling the ball at the defender's right foot, or using your right foot
dribbling the ball at your defender's left foot. If you are naturally
left-footed use your left foot and if you are naturally right-footed use your
right foot. When you have positioned the ball pointing to for example the
defender's right foot using your left foot, you then have 3 options. You can
sweep by the defender by pushing the ball to your right (his left) while you
also move your body past the defender by moving your body to your right (his
left); you can put the ball through the defender's legs while moving past the
defender by moving your body to your right (the defender's left); and you can
push the ball past the defender's right side, while moving your body past the
defender's left side, and then hook up with the ball again after both you and
the ball have gotten past the defender. The 3 options you would have would be
the same if you were attacking the defender by point the ball at his left foot
with your right foot, but with the directions reversed.
Your best
bet often is to square off aggressively against the defender using the method
described above, as opposed to veering away from the defender; even if squaring
off against the defender involves veering away from a straight line pointed at
the defender's goal, squaring off against the defender can be advantageous.
Try not let your team-mates deride you as a ball-hog or someone
involved in excessively dangerous maneuvers simply because such maneuvers fail.
It could well be that your team would do better if you attempted such maneuvers
several times a game than it would if you did not, because your team's passing
the ball around results in an even lower success rate. Players often pass when
they should attempt to dribble by an opponent, because they are afraid of
displeasing the coach and their team-mates.
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My idea is to if possible use the--for lack of a better word--telekinetic
action of the minds of people such as yourself (this is rational continue
reading for just a minute and you will understand I will explain), to help
improve spirits of people everywhere (except the ones who should not be
uplifted), especially some group you might wish to specially focus on.
This is rational I'll explain to you an original insight I figured
out. Just as you could not hear the drumbeats produced by the mind of the
drummer if God blocked the sound waves, so also another type of action of God,
interference as opposed to non-interference, allows the benevolent thoughts in
the mind of a praying person to have effect on others. Another way of looking at
it is, if I had my finger on the remote control trigger of a nuclear bomb that
would destroy the devil, My brain activity that led to me pushing the button
would not be able to detonate the bomb if God intervened to prevent the signals
sent from the remote control device from reaching the bomb; the signals would be
able to travel to the bomb only if God allowed them to (this does not mean God
approves of everything he allows to happen). So if you do something such as read
the two poetic prayers I wrote you can find below,(keeping in mind a
couple of unwritten lines of special focus on some group of your own choosing),
you might actually be able to accomplish something. One poetic prayer is
entitled "Overcoming Sins that Prevent Us from Catching the Divine Game" and the
other is entitled "the Sport of Virtue". In these poems Christ is referred to as
"Yayzoos" the name by which he was originally referred to in scripture and by
the early church. I tend to believe that people have been underestimating what a
serious matter it is to change the name of Christ the way the church has changed
the name of Christ into "Jesus".
Many people these days are wont to
argue with "religious" persons who are similar to myself. The best way I know to
deal with this kind of discord is to point out that the Old and New Testament
scriptures have three times officially declared that most of God's thoughts
words and actions are not recorded in the scriptures. Perhaps the world would be
a better place now if in the past the religious had been more aware of and
expressive regarding the fact that scripture does make such declarations.
Another new original insight discovered by myself into theological
basics that has somehow escaped the minds of humanity throughout the ages: The
excuse, "but it was not against my conscience", is invalid if the conscience has
been polluted by various pollutants such as greed, selfishness, arrogance,
willfull ignorance, and intellectual laziness. Supposing in the presence of
anger or some other mental sin, a person's conscience dictates action A; but in
the absence of anger or the given mental sin it dictates action B. If, affected
by anger or some other defect in attitude the person follows his conscience and
does action A, how could this be better than if, in the absence of anger or some
other defect in attitude, he were to commit action A even though his conscience
dictated action B? That would imply that the presence of anger or some other
defect in attitude improved the person over what he would have been in the
absence of the defect.
St. Paul never said that the christian was
freed from the burden of obeying his conscience, though he did admit that due to
the physical pressures of his body he St. Paul in certain ways violated his own
conscience without being separated from God or damned as punishment for such
certain types of violations of conscience.
In general regarding
religion, I feel that there has unfortunately been amongst almost all protestant
denominations, a misinterpration of St. Paul's words regarding works and
predestination. This misinterpretation was spoken of by St. Peter, when he said
that there are certain things in Paul's letters that are hard to understand,
that the "unlearned and unstable" misinterpret with the end result that they
destroy themselves. The fact is that Paul did not mean that for all persons it
does not matter what they do so long as they have faith; and the fact is that
Paul did not mean that for all persons it is predestined from the time of their
birth whether they go to heaven or hell. You can find my explanation of what
Paul actually meant when he was talking about faith and works in my newsgroup
post. And if you scroll down to look at the scriptural quotation taken from
a letter of Paul's that appears on all of my resumes, you can find further proof
that yes what a person does can matter it is not just faith. Another
newsgroup post of mine explains what Paul really meant when he talked about
predestination.
Generally you can find links to alot of writings of
mine that I have posted to newsgroups regarding issues such as religion and
government at the following Google
Groups Search link. I also have a website.
Howsoever
laudable metaphysical explanations such as made above may be, the reality is
that our spirits and the spirits of others are drawn closer to God not just
through prayer, but also through our behaviour, our social humility,our good
deeds, our generosity. In this regard it is worth noting that my resume has the
following quote in the upper right hand corner:
Command those who are rich in this present world
not to be haughty neither to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth
but in God, who so richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
Urge them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous givers, to
practice sharing, and to treasure up for themselves a sound foundation for
the future, so that they may take hold of the life that is really life.
Overcoming Sins that Prevent Us from Catching the Divine Game
Poetic Prayer by
David Virgil Hobbs
God grant unto us
and to all everywhere except those we should'nt ask such for in prayer
that there be less sin is the prayer we now declare For we are
like hunters tracking magical game whose meat gives us the holy spirit
saints acclaim Spirit of God help us reduce within us that sinfulness
through which we fail to catch this game that gives the spirit to us
And help reduce sins we commit that weaken the ability of others to
capture this game that feeds us spiritually God lend thy assistance and
hear this our prayer let there be less truce breaking and theft
everywhere less swindling extortion and murder causing despair God
grant that evil thoughts and unholiness are reduced in us and also in
all places both here and abroad God help us so less folly and
drunkenness are turned loose and help lessen misplaced lusts not of
the will of the Lord Let there be less of envies jealousies greed and
selfishness less of a kind of gainsaying unthinking rash stubbornness
less of rejoicing in iniquity and impatience less of irritability
and less of covetousness Father God let there be less malice
heartlessness and arrogance less hatred overall and less hatred of God
and good persons less excess love of self money and pleasure our lives
to worsen Lord let there be less absence of faith hope and endurance
less absence of natural affection, the absence odd less of
ungratefulness and less of lack of thanks to God less of the absence
of love and less absence of conscience God grant unto us and to all
people everywhere that there be a reduction in sins is now our prayer
Let there be less excess of gossip and insolence less approval of
sin idle talk and boastfulness and less blasphemy and slander and less
false witness Let there be less lack of self control and unseemly
behaviour and less insufficient obedience to mothers and fathers
Let there be less deceit treachery and lack of forgiveness and
less of invention of ways of committing wickedness Let there be less
implacability and rashness less of the excess of strife and less of
ruthlesness less of excess debate and less unmercifulness less of
brutality fierceness and abusiveness Sins we commit that weaken us and
make us less able to catch the game that is spirit-giving and magical
and sins others commit that weaken our ability to hunt down this
magical game are like monstrosities we are like soldiers at war with
these monstrosities who contest these lands where we hunt in prayerful
rhyme for that Spirit yielding game that can be so hard to find
God help us war against these monsters of iniquity All I ask thee
father God in this prayer to you, I ask in the name of Jesus whose
name is
Yayzoos
Sport of Virtue Poetic Prayer by
David Virgil
Hobbs
That God would grant
unto all people everywhere excepting those too evil to be so
blessed that there be an increase in virtue is today's prayer Hear
us Lord Father heed these our prayer requests For these virtues are
like skills of athletic conquest that make us more proficient in the
spiritual contest more able to be by your Spirit more posessed more
able to defeat enemy forces unblessed Which are the forces that reduce
the number of minutes in our lives that we spend intoxicated by God's
Spirit the forces that lower the level of intoxication we are able
to achieve even in our exaltation But all the while help us to
charitably understand that though kind deeds can help someone feel
blessed such acts of kindness done according to your commands may
not have made that someone into a better man but rather may have helped
him to feel sorrow less help us all, God to be more content with the
basics of life more steadfast and unmoveable in heavenly strife more
able to acquit ourselves like men and be strong not terrified, shaken
or troubled when things go wrong Give us more endurance of hardness as
good soldiers of the Lord help us to be less disrupted in our spiritual
lives by worldly sorrows and joys by good or bad wives less hurt by
persecution distress and famine and sword And let not our concern for
those we are married to divert us from good paths right for us set by
you Help us God to be more spiritually minded and fit, to follow
more closely the leadership of your Spirit Let there be less quenching
of Spirit amongst wits God make us more holy, more filled with the
spirit more filled with the godly grace your power transmits Let
there be amongst us and everywhere here and abroad more praise fear and
service to the God we should adore more rejoicing in God more
thankfulness to the Lord Help us and all in climates both warm and
colder to become more careful circumspect and sober Help us abstain
from all appearance of evil make our bodies more holy more conformed to
thy will more worthy of being with your Spirit instilled Help us God
to become more hardworking and diligent and to lessen our part in
noisiness and entanglements that contradict God's will and the
teachings of the prophets Help us to be less improperly judgemental of
sins and to become more approving of all excellent things Help us to
increase in kindness, blessing and forgiveness with regards to enemies
and persecutors among us Give us more kindness longsuffering and
forbearance more gentleness, tenderheartedness and patience Help
us to be more peaceful empathetic and sympathetic and grant that within
us there may exist non-synthetic more love of other persons and of all
humans more brotherly love and more love of good persons more love
between wives of the world and their husbands Let there be more prayer
offered for all persons and more adherence to the dictates of
conscience more good manners and good behaviour in everyone Help us
to increase amongst us and all persons virtues of blamelesness,
worthiness, and harmlesness and cheerful mercifulness and hospitality,
and help decrease conduct that harms others spiritually Grant us
God that people be more properly subject to the government powers
truly ordained by you and that diligence and goodness of governments
improve Let there be more quantity and quality found in all
nations in terms of wise and knowledgeable exhortation More good
ministering and teaching and education more prophesying of God's
truths for edification more helpful healing and godly comforting of
persons more distribution of necessities to all, especially to
good persons who've answered your call more relief of the afflicted,
as said Saint Paul more of goodness, and of righteousness and good
works more of the doing of the will of the Lord on earth Let there
be everywhere more heavenly signs more miracles wonders and mighty
deeds divine more admonishment and abhorrence of evil more reproval
of dark works done against God's will more anger against the enemy the
devil God our father insofar as your will permits help us so
children show more godly obedience and honor to parents God grant that
parents not be abusive to their children that a better job of running
the families be done and that parents improve as providers for their
little ones Grant among us and everywhere, O God of good deeds
that we may all increase in the virtues described so that we may
become better spiritual athletes, and achieve greater success in
obtaining the prize, Your great Holy Spirit that we want in our
lives I ask all this of thee God in the name of Yayzoos your son now
known amongst mankind as Jesus Christ of the christians