DRILL TYPE: Serve EQUIPMENT: Red Balls Colored Cones (4) Youth Racquets SETUP: Place 5 cones in the 4 service boxes for the targets. Two bucket of balls at the two baseline. Divide your students into four teams and have them stand at their colored cones at the baseline. MISSION: The students from each teams will come and stand behind the service box with a ball and racquet. The students will hit a underhand serve over the net trying to hit the other teams cones. Hit a cone, they will get a team points. The team with the most points wins. OBJECTIVE: Ball canât hit the ground, with the underhand serve. Racquet and ball control. Hit a specific target or area.
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