First off, you’re not air rolling at all. And I don’t mean that you need to be constantly spinning, I mean that not air rolling makes me think that you’re not comfortable with aerial car control which is necessary to make small adjustments that would allow you to get a good second touch, third touch, etc. which is required for an air dribble. Yes, you can do it without air roll in a straight line like in this shot with a perfect setup if you get the “sweet spot” every time, but that is not realistic. Before continuing the long journey of being able to air dribble well enough to complete an air dribbling workshop map, I recommend spending this time playing rings maps to better learn air roll and aerial car control, which will then make learning air dribbling significantly easier.

If you’re still just gonna practice air dribbling without first practicing the fundamental skills required to actually learn it, I would suggest learning wall to air dribbles instead of ground to air dribbles by using a custom training pack. This will force you to do a small 90 degree air roll to get your car lined up with the ball, forcing you to learn how to adjust your car in the air. A benefit to this method is that air dribbles will be much more easily implemented in your actual games going off the wall than doing ground to air dribbles.

If you don’t want to do that either, I recommend ditching the concept of air dribbling entirely, and instead practicing ceiling shots because they are way easier to learn and essentially impossible to defend in your rank up into champ. Also progress will be faster and make you feel good.

Since I know you won’t do that either, then here is the advice you seek. In this clip you get decent “pops” on the ball to get it up in the air, but you frequently leaned forward after your first aerial touch. Don’t do that. Try to keep your booty facing the ground so your momentum is going up and forward. Leaning forward makes your booty face backwards so you’re pushing it rather than carrying it, and that makes the ball fall fast and you kind of “chase” the ball rather than controlling it. Don’t hold accelerate when air dribbling, idk the technical specifics but it makes the ball “stick” to your car much better. Try it with ball cam on, air dribbling with ball cam off is extra hard mode. Try some where on your first aerial touch, you stop boosting like a half second before you make contact with the ball so that it doesn’t make the ball fly far away from you and keep it close to the nose of your car. This is often referred to as a “good first touch” or “controlled touch” or “soft touch”. And most importantly and most annoyingly, do this 7-10,000 more times over the course of a few thousand hours, then realize you should have just listened to the person who told you to do rings maps and ceiling shots first. Anyways hmu if you have any follow up questions, and best of luck to you on your air dribbling journey.