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All drills

Set & Save

Shot stopping, Footwork. About 8 minutes.

Keepers tonight
KKeeper working SServer or team-mate AAttacker KWaiting
The set position
  1. Feet shoulder width, knees bent.
  2. Weight forward on the balls of your feet.
  3. Hands ready at waist height. Still before the strike.
  4. Body behind the ball, wrap it up.
How it is set up

Setup. Goal with two servers 10 metres out, one level with each post. A cone 2 metres off the line in each half of the goal marks the set spots.

How it runs. Keeper starts on the post, shuffles to the first cone, sets, and saves a volley from server one. Straight across to the second cone, sets, saves from server two. Four saves, then rotate: keeper to server, server to the queue.

Coaching points

  1. Be still before the strike. Feet stop moving as the server drops the ball.
  2. Set shape: feet shoulder width, knees bent, weight on the front of the feet, hands at waist height.
  3. Move while the ball is travelling to the server, never while it is being hit.
  4. Hold it or push it wide. Nothing goes back down the middle.

Make it harder. Servers strike off the ground. Then after each catch the keeper rolls it out and passes to the far server with the weaker foot.

With 4 keepers. Two servers, one keeper, one resting. Rest is short, so keep the serves coming.