BASIC SKILL DRILLS

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Roll the ball away from P1 and as he picks it up both P2 and P3 leads withan opponent to defend the kick. You can vary the roll or do it has a handball.

3 kicks and rotate.

Basic Option Taking

P1

P2 O P3

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P1 pushes off the mark guarded by P2 and kicks to the best option provided by P3 and P4. As an extension add in a leading forward with or without a defender

or even 2 forwards and 2 defenders so they can practice blocking.

Held Up

P1P2

P3 O P4

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P1 leads to kicker 1 marks and handballs back and then comes around the cone and marks the ball from a second kicker. To add variety as he heads back to the

line add another ball in so he can have a shot on goal.

Double Leads

Kicker 1Kicker 2

P1P2P3

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P1 pushes back off the mark and kicks to stationary player P2 who plays on andkicks to P3 who is leading at him. He then pushes back off the mark and kicks to

stationary P4. Process repeats.Can stay in the same position or if you have lots of players run to the group you give it to.For variety when P3 marks he can

handball back to the player on the cone gets it back and then screws it to P4

Square Kicking

P1

P4 P3

P2

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Ball starts with the P’s in the goal square (both ends) and is kicked to a leading tall.They then follow up and get the ball back and kick to the leading CHF tall and again

get it back and kick to leading FF get it back and then shoot on goal. Talls aftermarking and handballing move to the next position.

Key PositionRunning

PPPPPP

Tall

TallTall Tall

TallTall

Tall

Tall

PPPPPP

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Kicking the ball diagonally P1 kicks to either P5 or P6 leading down either line. He chooses the best option and for example if he chooses P6 then P4 runs past for the

handball and then kicks to best option P7 or P8. The player on the lead who doesn’t receive the ball goes back to the line.

Initiative Square

P1 P2

P7 P8

P3 P4

P5 P6

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P’s kick in triangle formation to have a shot on goal. When the ball gets kicked to the last player before shooting on goal the O’s put pressure on the player having a shot

on goal.

Triangle PressureGoal Kicking P

Pp

PPP

PPP

OOO

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Pi kicks the ball to P2 and runs to the cone. P2,P3,P4 and P5 repeat doing the same.P1 then completes 3 kicks and all other players do the same. P1 then completes 5

kicks and again the rest of the players do the same.

Hard Square

P1P5

P4 P3

P2

30- 50 msquare

Can do it in pairs with ahandball before a kick.

Using footballsfor endurance.

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P1,P2and P3 form a triangle 20-25 metres apart with 4 players in the middle. P1 startswith the ball and has the option of kicking to either P2 or P3. Once he has kicked a player from the middle rushes out to put pressure on the kicker who must mark and

kick straight away. The player in the middle stays as a kicker and the kicker goes intothe middle.

PRESSURISED TRIANGLEKICKING

P1

P4P5P6P7

P3P2

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