- Too crowded to catch? Decide early.
- Same jump: one leg, other knee up.
- Two fists together, elbows bent.
- Punch through the bottom half of the ball: high, wide and far.
Setup. Keeper in goal. A server wide. Two cone gates 20 metres out, one towards each touchline.
How it runs. Start on the knees: the server throws gently and the keeper punches with two fists back over the server's head. Then standing. Then from a cross, with one player in the way. A punch that lands beyond the gates scores a point.
Coaching points
- High, wide and far. Height gives your defenders time, width takes it away from goal, distance clears the danger.
- Two fists together, flat surface to the ball, thumbs outside your fingers.
- Elbows bent as you jump, then punch through the bottom half of the ball and straighten your arms.
- If the ball is going away from you across goal, use one fist and help it on the way it is already travelling.
Make it harder. Two players in the way. Then the keeper is told "catch" or "punch" by the coach while the ball is in the air.
With 4 keepers. Keeper, server, one in the box, one collecting punches.