Sports (Athletes)

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Soccer, is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to play with ease, power, pain-free, and with accuracy without wearing out your hips and knees.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)

There are a lot of books out there on playing soccer, but many of them treat soccer as if they were talking about a stationary body. They try to help you hold a specific position and place the parts of the body. Stationary alignment is never good enough, because even if you look better when you’re playing soccer, if you are trying to hold good posture you will slow yourself down, you will still hurt.

There is another big problem in defining good posture in playing soccer in a static sense. When you align parts of the body with tension, you cause compression in all of the joints. This means as you run and kick the ball, and you move through space with too much tension and holding in your body, you will cause the already tense joints to bang into each other even more, and you will hurt. You may look great, but you will feel bad.

This ebook goes into extraordinary detail on what the different parts of the body are doing as you play soccer, and it gives explicit directions on how to move with ease and balance. In this ebook I teach you how to monitor what is going on in your body as you run and kick the ball, and to be in control of your body in an easeful powerful way.

The ability to play with ease and balance and flow in the whole body in alignment is how you get to play with ease and grace and not cause any wear or tear to the body. This means that as you play, there will be no downwards compression into the joints. You are shown how to keep your eyes on the ball without sacrificing your neck as you look down at the ball. In fact you can learn through his ebook to have more space in your joints, than when you’re sitting or lying down.

This ebook, An Alexander Technique Approach to Soccer, describes in detail playing soccer consciously, by using the principles of the Alexander Technique to play with as much ease and balance and grace as a natural dancer. I’m a certified Alexander Technique teacher, and I used the principles of the Alexander Technique to change the use of my body in athletic activities from a lumbering weightlifter run, to someone who runs without causing pain, strain, and injury to my body.

The Alexander Technique is unique because it asks you to do very specific things to help you play soccer without hurting yourself. But the Alexander Technique also does another thing that is unique to the technique. It helps you identify any misconceptions you have about soccer technique.

Example: Many soccer players believe the foot goes forward before the knee bends when you run, but the knee always bends first before the foot and lower leg swings through. It has been my experience as an Alexander Technique teacher that many soccer players run as if the foot precedes the knee, and this is very hard on the knees.

You never have to sacrifice your knees to play soccer.