Week 2: Speed — Days 8–14

Goal: take the simplest move you know and find out how fast your feet can really go.

Today’s routine

1. Toe taps, max speed — 4 rounds of 45 seconds on, 15 seconds rest (~300 touches)
2. Foundations — 2 minutes at a strong tempo (~200 touches)
3. Free dribbling — 1 minute of cuts and turns (~100 touches)

Form cues

• Arms pump like you’re sprinting — they set the rhythm for your feet.
• Barely graze the top of the ball; the lighter the touch, the faster the tap.
• Count your touches in the 45-second rounds. Try to beat the count each round.

Goal: turn your foundations touch into a blur while the ball stays glued to the line between your feet.

Today’s routine

1. Foundations, max speed — 4 rounds of 45 seconds on, 15 off (~350 touches)
2. Foundations moving forward and backward — 2 minutes (~180 touches)
3. Speed toe taps — 1 minute (~120 touches)

Form cues

• Stay low — speed comes from bent knees, not frantic legs.
• The ball never travels wider than your hips. Tight is fast.
• Look up once per round without losing the rhythm.

Goal: train change of pace — explode, kill the ball dead, explode again. Defenders hate this.

Today’s routine

1. Inside roll, sole stop — 2 minutes, roll the ball across fast, stop it dead with the sole, both feet (~200 touches)
2. Push-and-stop — 2 minutes, push the ball two steps ahead, sprint, stop it with the sole (~150 touches)
3. Fast foundations — 2 minutes (~250 touches)
4. Toe taps — 1 minute (~100 touches)

Form cues

• The stop matters more than the roll — the ball should die completely under your sole.
• Exaggerate the tempo change: slow-slow-EXPLODE.

Level up: do push-and-stop off both feet on alternating reps — it’s a staple of the intermediate tier in the Master Touch drill library.

Goal: learn your first three-touch pattern — sole, inside, inside — the rhythm behind dozens of real moves.

Today’s routine

1. Triangle touches, right foot leading — 2 minutes: drag back with the sole, touch across with the inside, return with the other inside (~175 touches)
2. Triangle touches, left foot leading — 2 minutes (~175 touches)
3. Fast foundations — 2 minutes (~250 touches)
4. Speed toe taps — 90 seconds (~150 touches)

Form cues

• Learn it at half speed first — the pattern matters more than the pace today.
• Say it out loud if it helps: “drag, across, back.”
• Once it flows, add speed until it almost breaks.

Goal: combine the pull-back with a push-out at an angle — the “V” that turns you away from pressure.

Today’s routine

1. V’s, right foot — 2 minutes: pull the ball back with the sole, push it out at 45 degrees with the inside (~175 touches)
2. V’s, left foot — 2 minutes (~175 touches)
3. Triangle touches — 2 minutes, alternating lead foot (~200 touches)
4. Fast foundations — 2 minutes (~250 touches)

Form cues

• The pull-back and the push are one motion, not two.
• Turn your hips into each push — pretend a defender just lunged.

Goal: string everything from Weeks 1 and 2 into ten minutes with zero standing around.

Today’s routine — no breaks between drills

1. Speed toe taps — 90 seconds (~150 touches)
2. Fast foundations — 2 minutes (~250 touches)
3. Roll-and-stop — 90 seconds (~125 touches)
4. Triangle touches — 2 minutes (~175 touches)
5. Pull-back V’s — 90 seconds (~125 touches)
6. Free dribbling sprint finish — 30 seconds flat out (~25 touches)

Form cues

• Transitions count. Roll straight from one move into the next.
• When your legs get heavy in minute eight, hold your form. That’s the rep that counts.

Goal: 900 touches at Week 2 tempo, then attack your juggle record from Day 7.

Today’s routine

1. The 10-minute nonstop circuit — Day 13’s full circuit (~850 touches)
2. Victory lap — 30 seconds of free dribbling (~50 touches)
3. Juggling test — three attempts to beat your Day 7 record.

Form cues

• Halfway there. You’ve done roughly 8,400 touches since Day 1.
• Log the juggle number — Week 3 checks it again.

Week 2 complete: your feet are faster than they were seven days ago — measurably, if you counted your Day 8 rounds. Week 3 fixes the thing almost every young player avoids: the weak foot.