Players that are capable of using one touch of any legal body part to bring the ball under control for a subsequent shot, pass or dribble, will be able to move faster, have more time and make better decisions.

Players learn to have confidence that they can use all legal body parts to control ball with equal facility. They develop the touch to demonstrate the difference between control and reacting to the ball. They demonstrate this facility using increasingly more game like adaptations and combinations with other skills. 

A pet issue of mine is ball juggling. I can think of no other activity that players spend as much time on that is less game applicable. If they at least ran around while doing it, it would have some use, but rather it is the mark of success to be rooted to the spot. However it is worthless to push water uphill, the red grade asks for juggling as that is what young players want to do. After that though the touch challenge becomes highly game specific.

White Grade

The players must self feed a bouncing ball. They must use either a foot, thigh, head or chest to control the ball so that they can catch it in two hands. They repeat for the next body part. Immediately they achieve white grade they are expected to start attempting to use all body parts to first touch the ball in a game. A tally chart to catch them doing it 'right' works well. 

Progressions to Black grade

The players are asked to combine control surfaces then present the ball to either right or left foot in order to make a pass to team mates. The ball will be coming at increasing heights, distances and speeds. Final passes will be in a variety of directions.

Challenge game

Bombers. Here

Top tip

Use this challenge as a warm up, time filler or session closer.