The coach call out the color cone and athlete will run and touch cone then move back to the center. Add variations like starting call out two colour then three and last four. lying face down and sprinting around two cones .
Ready Position Back to the Center of the Net Shuffling (no ankle taps or crossovers) Reaction Time
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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