Important:
1. choose your own dribbling ciruit. turns, feet inside cone-ball outside- slalom big space slalom small etc. Nr 8 scores on goal.
2. at position 1/3/5/8 start with 2 people to let exercise float
3. put at each cone some extra balls for mistraps + wrong passes
4. Next one can start with ball if no 1 is on position no 2
5. No 3 + 5 can run if 4 + 5 TRAP the ball. If sweeper gets too much time, put them cone forward (red cone)
You can do sort of end game:
- in 3 min times how many balls get to the goal?
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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