Red players check (sprint) to the orange cone on the right-hand side of the cone first (simulating stepping/pressing to the side of a player to win the ball). The servers (blue players) pass the ball to the red players when they arrive at the orange cones. Once they have played the ball back to the server (blue player), they turn and sprint back to the yellow cone. They then sprint back out to the left-hand side of the orange cone to receive and pass back another pass from the blue server. On returning the second pass to the server the red player turns and move on to the next yellow cone (to their left). When completing their passes at the top of the ladder (having completed both passes back to the server) the red player runs around cone A and sprints (90%) all the way around the grid back to cone D before re-entering the ladder again. One repetition of this exercise ends when the red players get back to the same position they started from. Rotate to have the Blue Players working and the Red players resting. Each team should perform 4 reps = 1 set. Each rep should focus on a different technical skill (refer to Progression 3). Approx. 25 mins for 1 set.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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