- Feet shoulder width, knees bent.
- Weight forward on the balls of your feet.
- Hands ready at waist height. Still before the strike.
- Body behind the ball, wrap it up.
Setup. Keeper in goal. Two players stand as a screen on the edge of the six-yard box. Server 14 metres out.
How it runs. The screen stands still at first, then shuffles from side to side. The server shoots low through or around the screen. The keeper moves to see the ball, sets, and saves. The screen players may not touch the ball, but they do turn and finish any rebound.
Coaching points
- Move your feet to see. Step to one side or drop a little lower until you can see the ball, then stay there.
- Keep your set low and your hands low. Shots through a crowd are nearly always along the ground.
- You will see it late, so the first job is to get something behind it. Catching comes second.
- Talk to your defenders in a match: "Left!", "Away!", "Let me see it!"
Make it harder. The screen may deflect the shot with a foot. Then the server chips some of them over the screen.
With 4 keepers. Keeper, server, two screen players.