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Kieran Brown.
I practiced knuckle balls for ages and then when it came to game time all my long passes were knuckles and I couldn't stop doing it. Cross field switches were moving all over the place and it got tough to switch between the technique
This.
damn thought it was just me
@@ealvarez5544 nope, you are not alone
I thought I was the only one who experienced this
Hahaha excactly the same.
What helped me when I was in high school was thinking about hitting the ball slightly to the left of center. As a right footer its natural to want to wrap your foot around the ball to the right, so deliberately trying to go too far the other way can help find that sweet spot.
Thanks for this advice I have tiered hitting knuckle balls before but I can never do it off of the ground only on volleys.
We filmed a similar video before this come out but after continuing practicing and seeing advice like this, it genuinely does work, nice one man! 👏
Donot stop practicing normal curls though else you'll get screamed at for knuckle balling every long pass
And try to come a but straight when learning knuckle ball after that match it up with your normal runup. Gl for the oncoming freekick goals 🎉
@@rohitkumar-nb5ym Screamed at? Lmao sounds like people here playing professional football... I only play for fun lol
If anyone wants to learn knuckleball but is struggling. The fastest way I found technique-wise is put your standing foot about 4 inches further back than normal, hit just below the centre of the ball, and drive as much power as you can but stop your leg on connection. You want to almost slap the ball with your foot rather than kick through it.
This is interesting. In Volleyball, there’s also knuckle ball serve. The way I do it (still not very good at it but I’ve managed to hit maybe 60%ish) is the same. Hit just below the center of the ball, and slap it (stopped after hitting the ball).
Exactly
tried that, kicked the floor, now my foot is broken 👍
@@guibragatto BRO WHAT 😂
@@guibragatto damn lmao
The main thing with knuckleballs is focusing on as little follow through as possible! If you watch your best ones you’ll notice how little follow through you actually have! Some nice ones tho mate well done
That’s exactly right. In essence, follow through is imparting spin, therefore the least amount of follow through produces the least amount of spin. Ronaldo has described his technique for denying spin in interviews as “almost punching the ball with his foot” and added how he “pulls back just upon impact”.
@@jacksonbauer5199 Yes interesting how he didn't wrap-up with the theory on what works, rather just his performance.
kind of, but not really. its like punching a balloon. you can follow through if you want, but it has to be the perfect follow thru.
So true
Roberto Carlos would've destroyed the football goal if he did this.
lol so true
Yo shrek
Shrek is always right
Lol
That’s shriek
One of the hardest techniques to learn in modern football
It’s not at all you just haven’t done research or practiced
@@hamiplays6536 yes it is, it literally is.
@@hamiplays6536 yeah it is I know how to do it I’m pretty good at it I score most my free kicks for my club with them but it’s really hard to learn it it’s easy when you know it but not when your learning it
@@z1fe173 yes bro. Despite trying soo many times I am still unable to score a free kick consistently
i was doing knuckleballs at 13 years old
I grew up in Peru (playing of course). I never was able to master this one. I did have a few friends who were good at it, but one of them in particular, had the nastiest knuckle ball I've ever seen. Looking at it coming towards you, the stupid ball seemed to constantly shift direction, up, down, side to side, added to the fact he had one hell of a leg, the speed at which the ball would close in on one, left its fair share of goalies rooted in place, indecisive where it was headed. He also had a wicked free kick from around 20 outside the penalty. When he nailed it right, he could get it over the wall, and then down, bouncing it off the ground about 13 to 18 ft in front of the goal, with a skip off the ground much higher than what most expected. It was always fun to see the eyes of a goalie that was caught off guard by the bounce, the second they realized the ball was headed above their dive, just a few inches out of reach. The same look one gets the moment the goalie realizes the error they just made, as you the perfect hat trick, the one you pitch over the goalie, with just enough on it to enjoy the cat like acrobatics, as the ball stays inches from their finger tips, no matter how much they back peddle, clawing at air.
Watching this with my 5year old boy. I always tell him practice makes perfect. You done double well from day one to the end. Good on you
I know
Practice makes perfect
Practice perfect makes perfect.
Laces down - clean strike down the middle- who knows wtf happens. idk why this is so hard for people. Sizew 11.5 US was maybe ideal bc I can do it on command and I'm 42.
Noticed plenty of the guys you were watching were using the Jabulani, that definitely helps.
The jabulani was possible the best ball to knuckle with in my experience but the old Nike premier league balls weren't bad either
@@zxslayerzxz8532 it was so bad , it was never used a again in competition
@@burnpittsburgh7036 The 2010 wc am I a joke to you
This is going to be a learning 'curve'. Not a great start Kieran.
Yuu
*_I see what you did there_*
Was like the only shot I hit. I hit it off the laces dead center of the ball full force. If you put the needle where you air it up dead center where you kick it, it helps the ball compress more to knuckle. My goalkeepers at practice loved blocking shots from me because they said the ball always moved so much. When it’s whistling, you know it’s a good one.
Bingo!!! Finally someone else gets it. It's the air catching on those seams that make that whistling sound and yes, you're absolutely right if you hit that ball with anything less than full force it won't give you the results you want
Once, I was just practicing random free kicks, and one of my shots, I thought it was weird. The ball wasn't spinning and it was going all over the place. I came home and looked it up and realized I've just performed a knuckleball, one of the hardest freekicks in all of football, and as legend has it, I've never done it ever again.
same it happened to me but it dident go in it hit the crossbar and I’ve never did it again
1:50 i haven't watched the rest of the video but I paused to comment on your form. You were hitting the ball as if you were trying to make a pass, the shot you want comes when you hit the ball with extreme force not trying to make it curve but more like aiming at a straight shot, with enough force and the wind catching on the seams of the ball it will make it move "unpredictably" as its famous for.
I’m a catcher in baseball and one of the pitchers on my team was a knuckleballer. I cannot catch it without a bigger glove it’s insane. The movement is too unpredictable
i’m not a catcher but a goalkeeper, however i can say the exact same thing about the knuckleball. he really wasn’t lying in the title when saying that keepers HATE the knuckleball… we do… we really do. it’s just a ridiculous shot, i’ve almost gotten scored on when the ball was coming straight at me, it just moves so much
Same for me except in volleyball
@@ztvn17 bro my friends watch me catching his knuckleball in the bullpen sometimes and they think that I’m horrible lmfao. He always makes me feel like I’m the worst catcher of all time 😭😭😭
the shot at 6:33 that "felt weird" was the one. it felt weird because you dont have the muscle memory formed for that shot yet. you keep reverting to your comfort zone w the side foots. if u kept practicing that shot at 6:33 it wouldnt feel weird after a while @kieran
Not only is technique important, but also the type of ball and it's aerodynamic performance. The Adidas Jabulani was notorious for producing knuckle balls and baffling goalkeepers during the 2010 World Cup. Did you notice what ball Buduiza was using in all those clips? m.kzhead.info/sun/o7emlcudf6KsooU/bejne.html
Yes exactly
Finally someone who understands football!
I'm not much of a soccer player outside of high school, but I am a volleyball player. And if anyone knows how to abuse spin like no tomorrow its us. And I think some of the things I learned while playing volleyball can help with trying to do knuckleballs. its as much of the follow through as it is the kick itself. for the ball to knuckle you need to hit it dead on center and have the follow through also be pretty much straight if there is any at all. I know he said something about how someone will like step across 6:33 for reference. We do something similar in volleyball, where if you see someone do a "float serve" you may do something similar with your hand, where you either hit the ball with a firm hand and then stop immediately or will do a short and straight follow through. Now, this is definitely harder to do with your feet as hands are naturally more dexterous than feet, but even though he said it feels wrong, it can work quite well if done right. that's how I do most of my knuckleballs. It will cause the least interference with a knuckleball, because this is basically stopping your follow through. Now, keep in mind this kind of mindset can also be used to put massive spin on the ball, though topspin and backspin I can imagine are really hard, especially topspin. But sidespin is quite easy to do if you know the idea behind it. So, i hope this helps someone learn how to take their shots to the next level.
Thank you
a knuckleball off a serve or something seems really useful
@@garrettlong1273 in volleyball it's called "float serve" when you serve without spin and sometimes it's very hard to receive this type of serves, especially when the ball just goes down fast
@@felp3142 thats cool, i dont know much about volleyball so its cool to see another in-sport use of things like the knuckleball
It's football
Fun fact:when a knuckleball hits the crossbar the ball go so far away
it felt so relaxing seeing your progress and on the 6th and 7th day you were amazing literally it takes people years to master this but you did it in only seven days that is too good and awesome .
Mastered in seven days? Lol
He learned it in 7 days But he still have a long way inorder to master it lol
fr I was so jealous it took me 3 years to learn to knuckle ball but I'm happy for him lmao
I did it in two hours with a goal kick dont mess
@@bigfatfish564 5yo check?
Such a well done video mate🤘 just watching ur progression thru that vid was super satisfying i was pumped when you were getting it at the end, it goes to show get out there and practice ur butt off you will see results! Nice work man❤🇭🇲
Brilliant mate! Some of those knuckleballs at the end were insane! Imagine they went top bin! 🤤🤩
People always talk about the follow through being the hardest but but actually getting them up into that top corner surely is right? It’s so unpredictable where it’s gonna end up that you almost have to pray it finds it’s own way 😂
This motivated me to practice more techniques. Thank you
Man absolutely love this guys content. Issa treat to watch.
that Parma shirt 🤩
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you were out of ideas on what to comment , so you decided to comment on his t shirt , bruh
@@afeefali1505 ahahahah no its because im italian
@@afeefali1505 And I don't see whats the problem. He likes the shirt. Let him be happy and comment on the video and of being such a dickhead
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I’ve been subbed to Kieran since he was on 600k. Mate your growth has actually been incredible GGs
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Congrats to all the effort and result. I think the problem was in the beginning you were kicking with the inside and then later with the top part of the foot. I find it easier to knuckleball by trying to kick it using more of the outside part of the foot and kicking from left to right (since your right footed). The ball tends to move easier this way and almost feels like a chip with the outer sole. Maybe that help you more in the future! Cheers!
I remember when playing for my high school team 6 years ago, I was just practicing knuckles because I became the main guy for free-kicks, and during practices, for the life of me, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t knuckle the ball at all. It got to the point to where I didn’t really do it anymore. But then during one of our games, we played one of the top teams in my province, and it was tied 1-1. And towards the end of the game, we got a free kick, and I didn’t even mean to knuckle it, but then it did knuckle. Got the goal and we eliminated one of the top teams. And we went on to play for 3rd place. We lost that game, but of all the years my old high school had a football program, no team has ever made it as far as we did in a tournament. And the players of the previous year, one of the old players who had already graduated came up to us during practice and said that we’re going to get absolutely battered in the tournament. But we proved them wrong by going 3 wins and 2 losses. Where they went 0-3 the previous year.
The progress made in that one week was impressive. Top work, good content 👏
Loving the Parma top on the first day man 👌 Buduiza will always be one of our inspirations 🔥 The Nike Pitch Team footballs are sick for Knuckleballs 🙌 You can see the improvement which is so sick! Loved the video as a whole - This is why we love the Knuckleball technique! 💪 #Knuckleit 👊
I’ve been watching you do these videos for about 2 years now, you never get old. Keep up the great work👌 -from Australia
Gracias por hacer este tipo de vídeos , haces que la gente sepa que no es tan difícil , y me di cuenta de que cada vez que te salia un tiro hermoso tenias el pie orisontal - Mientras que en los primeros tiros le petias el pie vertical / Saludos desde México✌✌
With knuckleball it might help not to pull the foot through, but to stop after the shot. More strength might also be helpful.
Kieran is a very motivated and dedicated man to these skills, wonder how much effort this took
You just saw
not enough, bc he is still terrible...
I was an All-State goalie in High School. Never got to see this shot in a game but in practice it drove me nuts. We had a Semi-Pro player helping out and he would take shots on me that were like this. Now I know why Catchers in baseball hate the Knuckleball.
you don't know the half of it im the catcher
The type of balls used plays a huge role in movement
I think you made excellent progress in just one week! Achieving the desired result may become easier if you look deeper into the physics involved. I have actually heard Ronaldo describe his technique for imparting zero spin as “almost punching the ball with his foot”. Where you make impact and how long your foot stays in contact with the ball will also effect not only the force imparted, but also the spin. I don’t want to bore anyone with a long drawn out explanation of the “physics of football”, but I will say that having a solid understanding of how the world works makes the mastery of certain tasks more attainable.
One game this dude had a free kick from about 30-35 yards away and managed to knuckle it top bins (plus some wind) as the goalkeeper it was so hard to predict
Respect for these awesome video ideas
I think he stole this video idea
Been here since 300k, keep up the great work kieran!!
Love your video. Most young players don't truly understand how much work goes into learning a new technique. Your video shows it take A LOT of work. Good Job!!
I learned how to do it, one of the most important things is to follow the ball with your feet. You need to go from 5 to 7 steps backwards and if you are right footed go 2 steps to your left, the opposite for left footers!!!
I could knuckle it sometimes when attempting outbends. I would strike it hard on the laces but leave my ankle wide open all the way through. In my attempt to strike across the back of the ball sometimes I would not cut it enough and it would end up going straight. It always seemed easier trying to push the shot away rather than pull it across the body.
this is the only legit response in the comments so far after a year after posting. So many fake bullshit guru's. you just slap your foot laces down, and try to get the most pop off you can. Then it just moves all over the pace unpredictably. Thats it, Mystery solved.
@@burnpittsburgh7036 open ankle, let it rip! Hard shots are hard to stop
Amazing video love this channel!
He did a knuckle ball on shot #202 at 5:23
I love the knuckle ball technique it’s one of my favourites to use, also if ur trying to hit knuckle balls I suggest not to use the Nike flight ball, it’s impossible to hit a knuckle ball with it, also thanks for this great vid 🙏
wat sneakers is good for knuckle ball bro
@@alanyang6284 doesn’t matter
this was the first thing I became master at when I was a kid I grew up watching Ronaldo when he was 18 and I was 9 I was obsessed with this skill and it helped me to score a lot of goals when I was a bad dribbler as I never needed to dribble and we didn't have casillas like gks in india back then so it was really easy to score nowadays I see kids doing good at every position maybe in future India becomes a good football team
kind of seems like maybe you just kicked the ball and it went in. not really due to the movement...
Your videos are really entertaining thank you
I learned how to do this from an Iraqi soccer coach when I was 14. Everyone here is describing this completely wrong. You don't even practice this moving, you walk through the technique portion as a warm up, in a dribbling warm up you practice doing the walk up and contact without actually applying power, kind of like practicing a Cruyff when you first learn it. You slowly build into practicing on free kicks from about 5 yards out. You listen and watch how the ball comes off your foot and just from listening start to tell which ball knuckles. Then you start backing up, you wanna start at the penalty spot. Again focus on technique and apply power until you hear what you heard kicking into the net. It produces a low bellow and a slight whistle. After you get accurate from the penalty spot, you pretty much can use it from anywhere. My senior year was when I finally learned how to apply it while moving, while focusing on the sound, while honing in on accuracy.
are you claiming you mastered this technique through sound? this is beyond stupid
@@burnpittsburgh7036 seeing as this specific shot creates a distinct reverberating sound effect when you actually hit it right. Yes. And seeing as 76 other people liked my comment, it would seem others know what I am talking about
Luv your videos
7:05 knuckle ball 😱
Early on you were hitting the ball way too much on the side. You have to kick the ball on the exact opposite side of the direction you want to kick it. You got a slight one with shot 202 :)
I’m happy someone else pointed out shot 202!
his vids always relive my stress from school, just keep doing what ur doing
what a guy! I cant imagine how long Kieran has to walk to get the balls everytime
You don’t do that? Bruh who does it for you?
@@smallcock269 lol ofc I do, I’m just amazed by the guy’s perseverance. Looks like he has to walk pretty far to get the balls
I alwAys get a goal with a fence behind it?
I personally prefer curve because you can aim properly because if you analyze cr7's Fred kicks if he shoots knuckle them there is a lower probability for him to score but when he shoots curve he is way more likely to score
Your determination 👏 💪 🙌
some of the videos kieran showed they were using the jabulani ball its known for crazy movement
I learned how to do them consistently pretty recently after a month of good practice hit two insane ones top right with good movement. One was dead ball post and In and the other swiveled and hit side netting
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Why y’all have these thot accounts lol ?
@Pengig ?
Tips?
@@kairemnet1949 hit with hard bone, lean over ball, I run with high knees, last step big to generate power, hit center of ball, kicking foot should cancel follow through(land on floor as quick as possible but not like a complete cancel like a chip shot) and most of all practice
Ki you were banging them by the end lad! well in👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Great to see your improvement
Shot #202 was a knuckle ball it was taken at 5:23
the amount of commitment Kieran has is incredible
bro this is his job
Great vid!!!
Ove been watching u for a long time and i didnt realise i haven subscribed lol😂 im subbed now😂
Can someone tell me what song is at 8:30 I’ve been looking for it for like an hour now with no luck
SAME
IDK IM LOOKING FOR IT ASWELL
Just found it: Rise Up now - Soleil
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just wanna say that it is noticeable how much kieran's cinematography has improved
well done mate! keep trying and you will be better and better!📈
As a goalie I can confirm I did my finger in trying to save this. Advice is to kind of throw yourself into the ball to act as a sort of cushion.
That's how I save every shot lol I just smother it as I don't wanna risk in skipping through
practiced 5 days a week for 3 months straight a couple years ago, now I can hit top bins somewhat consistently 🤣
I love how he is putting the effort into it
For me I use my direct top part of the boot or the lace a bit down, Ankle locked and for the run-up, I do like 80 or 70 degree angle because you want the ball to be in a non spinning motion and too much angle will create curve shoot directly at the centre. Sometimes I will do my follow through, I Swing my leg to more up to gain height if there wall
It works for me if you think this doesn't work , I do all this to get my knuckle
Back in the day, I was the only one on my team who could reliably hit knuckleballs, and I got really good at it. I think the reason there isn't any consistent "technique" is that the normal variables (lean forward or back, lean to side or keep straight, open foot or straight lace, etc.) don't matter as much, or at least, can vary more. The critical part is really getting a clean hit with no sweep. The sweep is mostly follow-through times misalignment. The easiest way to learn, IMHO, is to start by kicking as you normally would in terms of position and run-up, but reduce the follow-through to a minimum. Then, just keep kicking and kicking while making small adjustments to reduce the spin, until you no longer get any spin (but you probably won't get "knuckles" yet, due to a lack of power). And finally, start adding back more follow-through so that you can put more power into the kick, while making sure that as you add follow-through you don't reintroduce the spin. In other words, first learn to make a clean hit, and then, learn to align your follow-through with it. (it's also a really good warm up exercise: hit gently with no follow-through, aiming for clean no-spin hits, and then ramp up the power and follow-through as you get more warmed up) My own technique ended up roughly as follows. Almost straight run-up. On tip-toes, or even completely off the ground. Standing straight, not leaning to the side. Leaning a little more forward (or less back) than I normally would. Hitting straight on the laces with a very up-straight foot. And bend the knee immediately after the hit to sort of keep my shinbone straight during the follow-through. This resulted in relatively low knuckleball kicks (at most 1.5 meters high) that were very powerful. In my own experience, goalies cannot stop this, they are either fooled by the knuckle effect or simply beat by the speed and power, or both. Unfortunately, opportunities to use and pull off this technique in a game are pretty rare (e.g., free kicks with no wall, or really perfect situations mid-play), compared to the more usual kicks and spins aimed at centering, long passes (dipping or hanging) or getting around walls. But, I think mastering the knuckleball is still useful (and fun!) because it helps for plain straight ultra-powerful kicks, which are formidable on their own, with or without a knuckle effect, and it's basically the same technique (at least for me) but without needing the "perfect" set-up.
Wow
Jeez man that’s a long comment
Didi, a brazilian player from the 50's and 60's, said he fortified his toes by kicking the ball for hours. Then, when he wanted to do the "folha seca"/"knuckl ball", he said he would "cut the ball in the half". Watching some video footage, it seems he would kick with some part of the inside of his foot or using the three toes on the "outside part" (the smallest to the middle one), all technichies depending on how he wanted the ball to travel to the net. Sources (all in portuguese): kzhead.info/sun/msyPn8ONZF-nnWw/bejne.html kzhead.info/sun/aJ2HhqidgIaCZ2g/bejne.html kzhead.info/sun/e6-Epbejn6GfqYk/bejne.html
Hey great vid keep it up
This video teach me to never give up.
Buduiza was using the Jabulani which is known for the unpredictable movement.
I hit a knuckle ball on accident while doing a physics project😂 wasn’t able to to it again
I like bro because unlike other youtubers he shows everything he does and not only show the good part he also shows his failed moments and tries😊
I swear Kiearn brown your vids a 're soooooo good bro
Yeah as a keeper I can confirm I hate being on the receiving end of knuckleballs.
No one's gonna talk about how he hit the knuckle ball on day 3
Honda's knuckleball screamer at the start of the vid 🔥🔥
Your hardworking 🔥✨
Your not leaning over the ball
Le me who was a keeper and just worked on speed and instincts: 😆 🤣 😂 😹
Keep up the good vids
Could you make a video about how to make a knuckleball?
Dude, you should just disconsider all the knuckleballs did with Jabulani, the ball from the 2010 South Africa world cup. At that time, every goalkeeper used to complain about the ball cause every shot was turned into a knuckleball because of the ball itself.
I noticed many videos you watched were done with that ball.
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Interestingly it took me around the same time of self learning to understand the technique. Funny how once the penny drops it’s pretty easy to do consistently with muscle memory!
Hit it like a straight shot from a driver from a tee nearer the centre (as oppose to a iron or wedge) Use the part of your foot below the laces. (You want the smallest area of contact) Punch, do not follow through.
What should i try and learn next??
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Top spin
paneka
Ronaldos freestyle
Paneka
Juninho will always be the king of knuckleballs.
Amazin' video man
The Parma shirt Is a class touch 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Who else practicing this during the World Cup
Easy technique hit with laces , stop foot from going through the ball after hit , lean frontward a tiny bit when hitting it for dip and swerve , simple man
Knuckle ball is always mesmerising to watch
For my knuckleball technique is like do a power shot like as in shooting it in the middle of my foot on top part of the shoe lases but in the middle so i do that and i get into an angle and hit it a little low but hit it where the show lases are at so low hit mid foot part and power shoot it.
The best free kick taker of all time leo messi
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