Improving tackle and fitness.
1. Set up a zig zag area like picture.
2. Have majority of players standing on white cone like picture.
3. Have other players standing the other end.
4. Blue players are the inavaders and can only move down the zig zag line by side stepping.
5. The grey players have to try and stop them from reaching their base.
6. The grey players can stop the invaders by a tackle.
7. Once the invaders have been tackled they go back to the start.
DEVELOPMENT
- Add in more defenders
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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