Hot Sports How-Tos
How To: Coach Pee Wee Football (Children Ages 7 and 8)
Believe it or not, coaching peewee football can actually be harder than coaching major league ball. Adults, with their overblown egos, are usually hard to work with, but children can be even tougher to deal with. Adults are focused. Kids are not. So, if you want to learn how to become a better sports coach for the little ones, this video will show you how.
How To: Throw a football the right way
Want to learn how to play football? The first thing you're going to have to learn is how to throw a football, and how to throw a football the right way! Throwing a football incorrectly can result in injury an a sore arm. Listen up as this football throwing expert demonstrates the correct way to throw a football.
How To: Perform a back handspring easily
Hoping to make the cheer squad this year? Gymnastics can be a huge plus on your scorecard, expecially back handsprings. In this tutorial, learn the basics and how to start practicing to do a back handspring. Before trying this it is important to stretch, and either get a spotter or put together a soft, padded enviornment to practice on. Begin by practice doing a "bridge" to warm up the arch in your back.
How To: Perform a back handspring for cheerleading
Are you on the road to becoming a cheerleader? Gymnastics are a huge plus when it comes to making a cheer squad. In this video, learn how to do a back handspring with Viktorija Grauding, coach of SCZ Cheerleaders and Brighton and Sussex Waves.
How To: Perform soccer drills to improve offense & defense
Even expert players who score impressive football victories in the UEFA championship games need to practice and train properly. Get a peek into the Spanish Football Federation's training tactics via this video on soccer drills that improve a soccer team's offense and defense.
How To: Do exercises to increase muscle density for swimming
Increase muscle density by watching this two minute tutorial. Muscle density is important for keeping your body strong and active now and especially as you get older.
How To: Do exercises to strengthen your core for swimming
The core of your body - your abs, obliques, and the muscle that goes around your midsection like a corset - is what holds your entire body together when you're performing tasks like lifting groceries, doing push ups, and even just sitting at your desk.
How To: Jump rope to increase your swimming stamina
Relive your favorite recess exercise by watching this video on jumping rope, a simple but very effective cardio exercise that'll increase swimming stamina.
How To: Do a Tabata exercise to increase swimming stamina
Rest in between long bouts of exercise is recommended, since muscles need time to heal and patch themselves up after tearing (yes, any form of exercise makes micro tears in your muscles that must be healed. These tears are a good thing because once you get patched up, your muscles become stronger than before).
How To: Do the Tiger swimming exercise to increase strength
Tigers are common names for forms and routines in martial arts because they are creatures of bold, athletic beauty who usually remain graceful yet can pounce and kill you before you even know it.
How To: Do the Stallion exercise to improve swimming skills
You'll be a stallion in water (without the drowning) once you perfect this difficult training move to improve your swimming skills.
How To: Do the Dragon weighted exercise for swimming
Challenge yourself with this swimming video, which teaches you a pre-swim exercise called the Dragon. As fiery and monstrous a move as its name suggests, it involves lifting a set of heavy (10-30 pound weights) from your hip to over your head and then jumping as the weights go up.
How To: Do exercises to increase swim strength
Breast strokes are pretty fun until you get to your 100th and each arm feels weighted down by 1,000 octopuses. It's nice to have agility and speed when careening over the vast seas, but for long distance swims it's best to also have strength.
How To: Do warm up exercises for swimming
Watch this video for warm-up exercises you can do before you swim - or before any sort of workout - to build up your heart rate. By changing the plane of your body several times within the three-minute warm-up you'll force your heart to work harder, which means a bigger calorie burn.
How To: Do exercises to increase swimming mobility
You may not think yoga, calisthenics (jumping), and dynamic flexibility are related to swimming (given that those former exercises occur on land and swimming occurs in water), but all three types of exercises strengthen your ability to swim with ease and strength.
How To: Do exercises to improve your swim speed
Without speed, you'd swim like a turtle at your swim club races, which is okay if you're into leisurely paced losing. Whether you're navigating away from a hungry shark who likes your "Family Guy" swim trunks or trying to finally snag that "First Place" trophy, speed is something you can always improve on.
How To: Sharpen power and stamina for swimming
Swimming does usually occur in water, but that doesn't mean there aren't land exercises that we land mammals can do to improve mobility for when we emulate finned fishies.
How To: Apply proper backswing in golf
You ready to give your backswing some practice? Thanks to this video by expert golf site Golf Link, learn how to improve that backswing on the green! When doing the backswing, the arms do not move back but rather hinge upwards according to golf expert, Steven Bann.
How To: Do one-touch passing move soccer drills
When building an attack in soccer, you and your teammates must think as one in order for the ball to connect smoothely from player to player. Get your football cronies on the same wavelength by practicing the one-touch passing move.
How To: Do pass and move soccer drills for ball control
This UEFA Training Ground video helps develop your ability to pass and move the ball to fellow soccer teammates. Although it seems quite basic, proper passing in heated game situations is a nice skill to have and to fall back on if a recently learned soccer trick suddenly escapes you're caught between a rock and a pushy defender.
How To: Do soccer drills to maintain possesion of the ball
This is a helpful soccer video because it gives you tactics from both sides of play. Taken from a training routine from the Spanish Football Federation, the video improves your team's ability to retain possession of the ball while also breaking down offense moves in terms of what defense can do to prevent them.
How To: Do soccer drills to help with ball control
Want to learn how to play soccer like the pros? Watch this UEFA Training Ground video to learn the actual ball control drills used by the Spanish Football Federation.
How To: Do the Cruyuff turn soccer move to eliminate opponents
In the 1970s, Dutch legend Johan Cruyff invented a soccer trick called the Cruyuff turn, which tricks the defender into thinking you're about to pass or cross the ball. Instead of doing either, you drag the ball behind you to keep dribbling towards your destination. Successful football skills are all about how you can trick your opponent with footwork and body gestures, so get moving with this effective soccer trick!
How To: Do the drive pass soccer move
In this UEFA Training Ground tutorial, Woody, Kleiny, and Lianne Sanderson teach you the drive pass, a very long-distance kick that drives the ball quickly for a long distance. It's similar to the lofted pass, but you kick the ball on the nose instead. Hitting the nose straight on with your foot, you attain supersonic power and make the soccer ball go faster.
How To: Do the lofted soccer pass
Like achieving your wildest dreams, sometimes getting the ball over to a teammate who's far away requires one nice, guttural kick. When no one is within safe passing distance, you must employ the lofted pass, a strong-footed kick that lifts the ball vastly above the defender and lands within the grasp of your teammate.
How To: Do the Matthews soccer technique
Fads come and go, but classic and effective soccer tricks never go out of fashion. Created over fifty years ago by English legend Stanley Matthews, the Matthews is a technique also known as 'dropping the shoulder.' The move keeps the ball spinning inside your own jurisdiction, making it a hard task for a defender to steal the ball away.
How To: Control the soccer ball with Woody and Kleiny
Consider this your Soccer 101 tutorial on how to control the ball on the field. UEFA Training Ground soccer experts Woody and Kleiny teach you how to catch high balls and collect passes from teammates. These are skills you'll be using time and time again during your soccer career, so learn them - or brush up on them - with this tutorial. And get ready to truly master your football game. Control the soccer ball with Woody and Kleiny.
How To: Do the stop turn soccer move
Keeping the soccer ball on your person may make you feel like a hotshot, but sometimes a marker will have you trailed so tightly you have to pass it to someone else.
How To: Do the step-over dribble soccer move
The step-over dribble is superb for handling tight one-on-one challenges with your fellow defender. Practiced by the Netherlands' Arjen Robben, the step-over dribble shuffles the ball around so your opposing football player won't be able to decide which way to go.
How To: Do the Rivaldo soccer move
The Rivaldo is a famous soccer move named after the majestic Brazilian playmaker. Using fancy footwork, the Rivaldo rockets the soccer ball away from your opponent and spins it around so fast he won't know which way to go.
How To: Do an outside hook soccer move
The outside hook utilizes what is called the "dummy": feigning to go one way before going the other. This psychological compoment is extremely imperative for successfully bypassing your tight marker.
How To: Do the inside hook soccer move
In order to score a goal and keep the ball with their grasp, attackers master the art of the inside hook. A simple trick that's simply effective, it involves feigning that you're moving outward when you're realling taking the ball in. The move has been mastered by Turkey's Emre Belözoglu.
How To: Do a Lionel Messi drag-back soccer move
Sometimes the simplest moves produce the greatest results. Take FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi's drag-back, which is nothing more than pushing the ball out in front of you before dragging it back and turning 180° to face the way from where you came. After you do this, you just bring the ball around with your other foot and accelerate away from your opponent.
How To: Do the Alla Del Piero soccer move
Juventus legend Alessandro del Piero is well known by soccer players and the soccer fanbase for his adept soccer turns and clever push forwards.
How To: Do the Gerrard side-foot free-kick soccer move
Most free kicks in soccer originate outside the box so the ball has a chance to go high and above the goalkeeper's reach. However, kicking from inside the box gives you more precision if not height. If you're willing to make this tradeoff, then follow Liverpool FC's Steven Gerrard's lead. Gerrard's side-foot free-kick is a football technique that guides the ball swiftly into the net, its success dependent on making sure you kick the nose of the ball for the greatest force. Learn how to do you...
How To: Accomplish the Rooney dummy soccer move
Manchester United FC and England's Wayne Rooney is a forward with full bag of hat tricks to deceive his attackers on the soccer field. At his UEFA Champions League debut against Fenerbahçe SK in 2004, he scored a goal using the Rooney dummy, a soccer feint in which you trick the opponent into thinking you're going to knock the ball into the goal when in reality you're making a swerve left or right.
How To: Do the Ronaldo rocket soccer move
Because soccer players strike the ball into the goal with quick speed, the goalkeepers have to be even faster in order to prevent a score. With such agile goalkeepers, however, how do soccer stars manage to get a goal in at all?
How To: Do the Vieira pirouette soccer move with Woody
Pirouettes aren't soley dance moves for wannabe ballerinas and National Ballet regulars. Patrick Vieira is a midfielder who invented a move called the Vieira pirouette, which involves faking the direction you're dribbling and spinning 360 degrees around to keep the ball going towards the goal.
How To: Do the Zidane double drag-back soccer move with Woody
Without a nice bag of soccer tricks, football players would all play at similar level and there would be no game as we know it. In this video, soccer tricks star Woody demonstrates UEFA Champions League winner Zinédene Zidane's double drag-back.
How To: Do the Ronaldinho neck roll soccer move with Woody
This may not be the most practical, usable soccer move ever, but doing it during a match without fumbling will garner a sure amount of Oohhs and aahhs.