To teach players to stick stop this practice is a good warm up to taech them how to absorb the ball and show them the importance of the left hand in the strick stop
The players should get in pairs and roll the ball at each other for thepartner to stop the ball with the hand and roll the ball slightly forward.
Important to absorb the ball onto the left hand.
Also the ball should be stopped level with the left foot.
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