Blue Player A starts of on the 25m line with a simple dribble towards the baseline. Dribbles around the orange cone, towards the black cone. Gives a pass to blue player D, waiting at top-D. Blue player D picks up the ball takes a small dribble inside the circle and takes a shot at goal. This play is repeated exactly the same on the right hand side with Red player D and red player F.
Running baseline dribble Dribbling ball on stick Giving a decent pass to top-D Takes in the ball and takes a shot at goal.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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