Hey guys.
Matt here from Epic Soccer Training.
I want to teach you how to do a chest trap
in soccer.
So this is, I think, one of the funniest traps
that people do when they do it wrong.
So I want to teach you the basics of actually
how to do it right.
So what you want to do is think of it like
if you ever played that egg tossing game where
you throw it to your partner and you kind
of have to cushion it, that's the same thing
you do with any trap in soccer.
So it doesn't matter if you're trapping it
with your foot or with your neck or anything
like that.
You want to actually kind of brace the ball.
So again, I'm going to have Chas kind of throw
one here and kind of show you what you want
to do.
So when you chest trap it, chest trap it with
either the center or if you want to have kind
of a little bit more control, I would move
it up a little bit to the side.
For me, it's the right side is where I like
to chest trap and so go ahead.
A little bit higher.
So again, just chest trap and you will see
me kind of like I will kind of take some of
the power off of it which will help it drop
down so that's usually if I'm going in the
space.
But if I'm chest trapping right below me,
just let it hit you.
You don't need to like throw your chest out
or anything like that because you don't want
to go ahead.
You don't want it to just go too far out.
So again, you want to really just try and
kind of brace the ball and then throw it right
back down to your foot.
So yeah, go ahead.
So that's the basics of how to do it and then
what you want to work on, go back and forth
with a partner or with a teammate or something
like that.
Then you want to start working on trapping
into space, trapping where you want to go
because a lot of times, if there's a defender
coming straight at me, I don't want to chest
trap it right here.
You should see him coming and then if you
need to chest trap it away and get away from
him and go into space.
So those are some of the things you need to
be concerned with and really practice because
that's what's going to enable you to kind
of have what they call like a sticky foot
on the ball but obviously in this case, what
that means is you're keeping the ball collectively
right near you.
It's always within a yard radius where you
always have control of the ball and that's
what you want to do with a chest trap.
So remember that you actually let the ball
do the work.
You don't need to always just go after it
or anything like that but just let it hit
you and just drop right down or if you need
to go into space, turn, hit and go into space.
Just think of it in terms of kind of like
angles where you want to go with it.
So again, that's how to do a chest trap in
soccer.
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