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Cone Raiders

Games, Distribution, Shot stopping. About 8 minutes.

Keepers tonight
KKeeper working SServer or team-mate AAttacker KWaiting
The overarm throw
  1. Side on. Front arm points at your target.
  2. Long arm, ball comes over the top.
  3. Release, follow through, finish facing them.
How it is set up

Setup. Two teams stand on lines 20 metres apart. Each team has two or three tiny cone goals, a metre wide, a couple of metres in front of its line. Two or three balls in play.

How it runs. Throw from behind your own line and try to get the ball through one of the other team's cone goals, below knee height. The other team defends them like keepers: catch it, block it, dive on it. A ball that is saved is thrown straight back. First team to five goals wins. Then swap ends and play again with a different kind of throw.

Coaching points

  1. Pick a goal and pick a throw. A fast roll along the ground for a goal nobody is covering, a hard overarm skidding in for one that is.
  2. Defend like it is a real shot: get set as the thrower winds up.
  3. A clean catch means you can throw back while they are still out of position.
  4. Talk to your team about which goal each of you is covering.

Make it harder. Weaker arm only. Then the ball must bounce once before the cone goal. Then play it with the feet: side-foot passes instead of throws.

With 4 keepers. Two against two, two cone goals each.