Activity designed to improve agility and physical literacy with players moving at speed between stations.
1. Peform the ladder exercise as demonstrated.
2. Run and clear the hurdles.
3. Run left and right between cones
4. Collect a ball
5. Sole roll between the markers
6. Sprint to the green cone executing a feint and drive off the right foot to the blue cone
7. At the blue cone perform a feint and drive off the left foot towards the green cone
8 At the green cone, perform the same manouvere and move to the red cone
9. At the red cone perform a freestyle manouvere
10. From the red cone run with the ball towards the coach who will designate which way to pass him using a feint.
11. Score in the goal in the marked regions
Encourage creativity in the feints
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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