Split team. One side has the ball. Player with ball runs to cones, and gets tackled by player on other side. Red player, after tackle, gets up as quickly as possible and runs back through cones and to back of ball presentation, picks up ball and passes to next blue player in line. Red player then joins blue side and vise versa for blue player.
Quick tackle and roll away, get up and play ball. Some passing skills and tackling.
in more ways than one
in more ways than one
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