Quick Coach: Fend and pass

CORE SKILLS

• Footwork
• Fend
• Contact
• Handling
• Continuity

SET UP

Three cones, 3m apart, one ball.

HOW TO PLAY

• Put an attacker with a ball in the first space between the cones, and another 2m away. 
• Put a defender next to the middle cone, facing away from the ball carrier, and another on the other side of the middle cone, facing the oncoming attacker.
• The ball carrier passes to the attacker, who then goes around and through the gap.
• The defender can only move sideways, and aims to grab the shirt of the attacker.
• The attacker passes the ball if they are held, or runs around to the next defender.
• The attackers continue to go around twice, before they swap roles.
• Once both groups have gone clockwise, they then run anti-clockwise.
• Have a spare ball at the ready to throw to the attackers, if they drop the ball or it goes forward.
• Count the successful attempts.

DEVELOPMENTS

• Make the tacklers more active, so they come forward.

NUMBERS

• With five players, have three defenders and make the area into a triangle shape. With six, make the area into a square.