Trick of the week: Foot balance

Everybody loves to see an average Joe juggling a ball on their tongue, while playing the ukulele and bouncing on a space hopper at the tip of the Eifel Tower, but how does freestyle really help your game when you're out on the pitch?

World champion freestyle John Farnworth aims to explain in an exclusive set of videos for FourFourFourTwo Performance.

Starting with the basics and building up to some real showstoppers, John will teach you how to execute these tricks, while making them relevant to competitive football.

For his curtain raiser, John presents the foot balance….

John Farnworth is attempting to freestyle the London Marathon for Kick4Life.

Also see:
Cross toe bounce
Upper body 360
Hamstring catch
Neck catch
Heel juggle
Seven touch juggle
Sole juggle
Blind heel
Toe balance and juggle
Sitting cross catch
Around the world
Crossover
Outside bounce