Showstopping skills: The Air Akka

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Want to wow your mates with an outrageous showboat? Watch professional freestyler Daniel Cutting show you to perform this trick, without putting out your hip

Let’s face it, we all fancy ourselves as a bit of a show pony at times, whether it’s a needless stepover in your weekly five-a-side to a flash trick on a Saturday afternoon.

 

What you probably can’t do is jump up with the ball up between your legs and, in the same movement, extend your leg to flick the ball back across your body and around a flummoxed defender.

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It’s called the Air Akka and at FourFourTwo Performance, we know someone who can do it: Professional football freestyler, Daniel Cutting.

 

The five-time world record holder shows you how in this video.

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Andrew Murray

Andrew Murray is an award-winning writer, columnist and editor, voted the Consumer Journalist of the Year at the 2015 PPA New Talent Awards. A fluent Spanish speaker and former semi-professional footballer, he was senior staff writer at FourFourTwo from 2012 to 2019, interviewing the biggest names in the game from Lionel Messi (twice), Neymar and Luis Suarez, to Sergio Aguero, Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah for the cover, among others. He continues to write and edit for the brand on a regular basis, plus national newspapers, websites, the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Premier League clubs. He is not a famous tennis player.