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All drills

Knock It Off

Games, Distribution, Passing. About 7 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 15 metres apart. Each team has three balls balanced on tall cones in a row in front of them. One or two more balls to throw with.

How it runs. Take turns to throw at the other team's cones. Knock a ball off and it stays off. You may not block the throws: this one is all about accuracy. First team to knock all three off wins. Round two is underarm rolls, round three is side-foot passes, round four is the weaker hand or foot.

Coaching points

  1. Aim small. Pick out the ball on the cone and throw at that.
  2. Same technique as in the drills: front shoulder at the target, follow through at it.
  3. Take your time. There is no clock in this game, so a rushed throw is a wasted one.
  4. Call out a good hit by the other team as well as your own.

Make it harder. Move the lines further apart. Then each player has to call which cone before they throw.

With 4 keepers. Two against two.