Focus is a powerful tool. Whatever we focus on, we enhance. 

We use a special technique to bring out the players’ natural football abilities and help them play at the top of their game. 

We recently taught this skill to one of our goalkeeping students. He is 7.5 years old and, naturally for his age, scared of the ball when it is hit too hard. He would tend to move out of the way of the ball and concede a goal or leave his body too loose, making him feel the pain even more on impact. 

We conducted a focus session recently, teaching him a technique we call ‘Lazer Focus”. This technique brings out natural inner strength and a player’s other abilities. 

Once our student started using this technique, he became a lot more comfortable with saving hard shots and being strong in front of the ball, along with enhancing his reaction time. 

We surveyed our parents and found that 75% thought that improved focus would help their kids improve their football skills. 

By default, we focus on what we lack and, therefore, enhance it. 

If a player is scared of the ball, their focus is on the imminent pain. Playing with this focus enhances their fear, further, making them instinctively avoid the ball. 

This is exactly what happened with our goalkeeper when he started training. He was more focused on avoiding the pain rather than helping his team. So, every time a ball was shot powerfully at him, his body would instantly react to make him avoid it. 

However, this is not only a goalkeeping problem. We see this all the time with kids across all age groups, especially if someone has to block a shot, head a shot into or away from the goal, defend against a stronger opponent or even control an air ball. The fear always comes up and takes away the focus from the game and puts the player in their head, which slows them down and makes them make more mistakes. 

Focusing on the end objective brings out the natural instincts we need to complete the objective

With our goal-keeping student, we taught him our laser-focus technique and gave him an objective that took his attention away from his fears and imminent pain to his desire to keep the ball away from the goal. 

Bringing him into this zone of focus instantly made him stronger in front of the goal and enhanced his reaction time