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Technical Development |
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Chipping and Receiving Long Passes
This requires groups of 2's
with one ball per group and and approximately 50 yards of space.
With cones, create two 8 x 8 grids 40 yards apart. A player starts in each grid. See diagram below for setup
Player 1 starts with the ball and chips the ball to Player 2. If the ball first bounces into Grid 2 of if Player 2 makes contact with the ball without the ball hitting the ground while he/she is inside of her grid, it's a point. If Player 2 is able to control the ball inside of her grid, it's another point. If Player 2 is able to both receive the ball and play the ball back to Player 1 before the ball leaves her grid and while the ball is still moving and is able to chip the ball back to the other grid, it's a bonus point. This means that there is a total of 3 points possible for each chip (including the bonus point for getting it back in the other grid). The objective is to get as many points in a 5 minute period as possible. This game can be played one of two ways. Either, two players can compete against another two players (this would simply require 4 grids instead of two so that four two pairs can compete against each other. See diagram below for set up
The other way to play this game is for Players 1 and 2 to compete against themselves. If they play the game weekly or even daily the objective would be to try to beat the previous games score. The reason this type of game is so important is that with the tremendous emphasis on small sided games, players are NOT working enough on being able to strike a ball 30,40 or 50 yards in the air and also are not working on being able to receive these types of passes. While those types of balls aren't played very much in small sided games they are occasionally part of full sized games and players have to get better at being involved with these types of passes. These types of games help encourage working on the longer passes (and with the emphasis on accuracy and control hopefully you will realize that there is a difference between "just kicking it" and passing long balls with a purpose). |
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