Decision making drill for left sideline. All options are open and five passes are made to each gate and the number of passes that are successful and unsuccessful are recorded. Pressure is then added to close down some of the options and the correct option should be chosen correctly for the 30 balls and the number of sucessful passes and unsuccessful passes should be recorded and wrong and correct decisions should be recorded
Start with two options and close down one and then increase the number of options
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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