To help your players dribble with greater speed and get them looking up, this plan improves your players' dribbling posture and their ability to scan the field.
What's in the session?
The key lesson in this session is for players to recognise the appropriate speed and posture given the degree of pressure surrounding them.
To help you teach this to your players, this session contains fun speed limit games, to challenge players to focus on their technique. When there's lots of traffic players must dribble slowly, but when running at pace, it's time to place your hands higher up to allow a full stride.
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