Step1) Player on start cone (black) passes to player on red cone. Step2) Player on red cone crashes the ball, player on orange cone runs in for the deflection. Simultaneouly, player on start cone runs with ball to the blue cone. Step3) The player who received the deflection runs to the white cone. The player on the blue cone sends in crash ball, player on white cone receives and deflects. Step4) Player who began on black cone (moved to blue) moves to red, player on the red cone moves to orange (deflector), player who bean on orange moves to back of the queue behind the ball pile.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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