Starting at the ball pile; Weave through the cones starting towards your right, lift ball into crazy catch and then receive, work aerial baseline skills over two flat lines of cones, when you come up to the blue cones, hard pull right into the circle towards stroke height, complete with a backfoot shot towards far post Should be done as quickly as possible, while keeping up skill, for around 10 mins
Need: cones, crazy catch, ball pile Setup: Four cones in a straight line towards the baseline starting around 16 yds out and outside the circle. Crazy catch is the red circle in the picture, facing towards you. Two sets of straight line cones protruding from the basline that you will need to go over. Last set of straight cones is to give you a guide where you should make your pull back into the circle. Cone set up at a drop pass angle where the dashed arrow meets the straight arrow in the picture. Around stroke height.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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