Set up as perdiagram
One player stays in, the rest go out to field
Out field players can not start inside the white cone area
On coaches call of 'go', scoring player kicks all 3 balls into the field
Once all 3 balls are kicked outfield players collect balls with their feet and dribble to balls back to their starting cones
The scoring player runs between the red cones until all balls are back on the 3 cones
The scoring player counts how many runs they got bewteen the cone
Each player gets a turn and see who wins
Play again if time
Demonstrate laces technique
Driving the balls into space
Demostrate how players should dribble balls back in to stop the runner and how the scoring runner needs to run between the red cones
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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