Player dribbles through the cones with tight skills. Ball is not to leave the stick. Ball is then passed to the right and is either received or bump passed to the baseline. The player starts on the red cone and leads back to the orange cone to receive the ball. Then player is to do a left hand drag around the two sets of cones, passing straight back to a player in the inner line. That player starts on the red cone and leads to the orange cone, to have a one touch receive shot at goal.
Tight stick on ball when dribbling through the cone and a hard flat pass to the sideline cone. Player times leads to receive the ball as it is arriving and is not waiting for the ball. The drag is one step and back on an angle to get around defender. The player receiving the ball at top of circle has one touch to get bacll under control and shot to the far post.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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