Purpose - to practice proper defensive stance / slide
1 - Start at cone A - defensive shuffle all the way to the middle cone / touch / then defensive slide back to A
2 - Shuffle to the right to the next cone / touch / shuffle to the middle cone / touch / then back to cone and repeat until player reaches back to A
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