The kick wall is a new addition to your soccer family. It will always be your partner and is there for you and your friends. The "kick" wall can be used for more than kicking as it provides a vertical surface that can assist you in honing a variety of soccer skills. Just make sure there isn't a window. Listed below are some suggestions on how to use the wall to improve skills. Use your own creativity to develop fun drills. Younger players should work with parents and coaches to modify certain drills to fit their age and strength.

Passing Drills

Quickness
Do thirty to fifty touches with the following surfaces of your feet a short distance from the wall. (Repeat same quick-touch repetition using two touches).
* Instep, or on your laces
* Outsides of your feet
* Insides of your feet
* Two touch, alternating feet-touch right, pass left.
* Two touch, same foot-touch right, pass right.

One Touch Series
* Work about 8-10 yards from the wall.
* Strike the ball with the inside of your foot.
* Repeat using alternating feet.
* Repeat one touch passing with all four surfaces of your feet.

Two-Touch Series
* Pass the ball off the wall, receive ball off the wall; with one touch serve with the second touch.
* Receive the ball with the outside of one foot, return the pass with same foot.
* Receive the ball with one foot, return the pass with the opposite foot.
* Vary the surface you receive the ball with, and the surface with which you return the ball to the wall.

First-Touch Preparation - in the air or on the ground
You can work on your first-touch preparation by striking balls off the wall and cleaning them up. In addition, you can work on receiving or preparing balls off the wall in the air. If you are comfortable with your first-touch preparation, the next level is to add a fake or a feint before receiving the ball, or after receiving it and before serving it again.

1. Throw the ball up against the wall.
2. Prepare it with your chest one way.
3. Collect it against the ground and dribble off.
4. Repeat to both sides.
5. Next, repeat using both thighs and both feet.
6. Drive the ball off the wall.
7. Check to it, clean it up with your first touch and return it.
8. Practice your first touch with both feet.
9. Vary the surface you use on your first-touch preparation.

Volleying With a Wall
1. Practice volleying the ball back against the wall.
2. First start close to the wall, drop the ball from your hands to your feet and volley it back, catch the ball off the wall and repeat.
3. Back up and throw or kick the ball against the wall and volley it back against the wall.
4. Throw the ball in front of you or to your side and practice a clean strike of the ball.
5. You can practice half-volleys as well.
6. See if you can juggle the ball continuously back and forth against the wall.

Heading with a Wall
1. Head juggle as a warm up.
2. Gently stretch your neck muscles in all directions.
3. Stand about ten feet from the wall, throw ball against the wall and head it back for power.
4. Head high and away for defensive clearing.
5. Head down for offensive heading
6. Move back and punt the ball off the wall, jump up and head it back.
7. Try juggling with the wall as your partner.

Goalie Wall Work
A wall is a great training tool for keepers. You can serve a ball off a wall and work on your handling. Then you can hit it against the wall, turn and handle it. Use your imagination. Roll the ball off the wall, do a forward roll, then get the ball. You can stand ten yards away from the wall, serve it and catch it. The ball comes off the wall at different heights and angles.