- Use right to left and left to right stick dinks to lift the ball over the wooden blocks
- Make sure players maintain control by lifting their heads up after each movement. This will allow them to measure their lifts better
- Use soft hands to settle the ball after each dink
- Introduce a passive defender, who will channel the players left and right
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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