Five Moves to Beat a Defender

Description

Setup

Each player with a ball, spread out with plenty of room. A cone in front of each player as the pretend defender.

Play

Teach one move at a time, walking pace first: step-over, scissor, inside-outside cut, drag-back, and the pull-and-push. Everyone does the move at their cone, then accelerates away for five yards.

Score

Ten clean reps of each move at walking pace before anyone speeds up.

Progression

Once a move looks right against a cone, pair up and try it against a defender who only walks.

Harder

Call the move at random so they cannot rehearse it.

Easier

One move for the whole session. Five moves badly is worth less than one move well.

Skills

The video-tagging vocabulary, used for ingestion and browsing, separate from the curriculum above, which is what the practice engine selects on.