Blue runs the ball around the outside of the cones.
Red has to takle blue, whilst not loosing the teniss balls in hand.
White cones are starting and or finishing points.
use two tennis balls, one in each hand of the tackling player, also its important to insure the players have their defence technique, down pat in a safe way, etc cheek to cheek
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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