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Set up four cones in a 5 by 5 metre square.

You can have 1 to 4 players working in any one square, each player needs a ball.

COACHING POINTS

Beginners should try and stop with their left foot forward then to push back from this foot and change direction

Some players naturally stop with their right foot and then push off with their left (this should not be discouraged).

PROGRESSION

Beginners should try and stop with their left foot forward then to push back from this foot and change direction

Some players naturally stop with their right foot and then push off with their left (this should not be discouraged).

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Pull back technique | Video Techniques

Pull back technique:

  • Technique video to show a player performing the pull back skill
  • The player runs forward, before quickly transferring their weight back, pulling the ball backwards and rolling out to the right
  • This is an effective skill, when there is a defender slightly to the right of you as an attacker.

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Reverse stick Drag stage 5 | Video Techniques

Reverse stick Drag stage 5:

Reverse stick

  • at this level the reverse stick is used to transfer the ball from left to right and not as a separate technique

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    Moving the ball from right to left:

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    Confusion:

    To improve running with the ball and changing direction players have to run around the cones creating a figure of eight as they go around the centre cone before then running out and around the outer blue cone.

    Players must dribble forehand around the middle cone and then reverse the stick around the outside cone.

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