This guide focuses on how to best use freeplay for your most efficient improvement. A lot of players misuse freeplay for their improvement by just slowly hitting the ball and going for some aerial plays. Whilst this does not look bad at hindsight, it can be more optimised to one’s improvement by following these steps:
- Turn on the “Standard” boost amount in the training settings tab:
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- This will humble your boost management and make you realise how bad/good it is.,
- It will help you practice common in game boost paths. I will attach some graphs for better understanding.,
- Ballchase Hard:
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- I’m talking full on ballchase like your life depends on it.,
- Do this whilst focusing on soft touches, making sure they are easy to follow up.,
- This will especially help in for your 2s games, where getting touches which are easy to follow up are key for maintaining possession.,
- Recoveries:
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- Focus on constant flipping and wavedashing, to keep high speeds whilst trying your hardest to follow up the ball whilst getting boost at the same time.,
- This will make you get used to playing at higher speeds than usual, as 90% of the players I coach generally stick to driving around, being overall to slow to keep up to a booming ball.,
- You can also try integrate some advanced recovery methods such as zapdashing and walldashing, both great ways to immediately pick up speed with low boost!
Playing fast does not mean booming the ball away, it means being able to keep the ball close whilst playing fast with touches that are intended to be followed up.
Above GC, mechanics aren’t the determiner, creativity is.
If your touches look clean but still get read, this is the gap between GC and SSL.
The GC → SSL System focuses on mechanical creativity, not flash.