Players start from either cone and get small touches to orange cone. VARATIONS dribble to orange cone and drag ball back dribble to orange cone and do a 360 turn and continue to blue coneor red cone depending on which cone you came from both palyers dribble at sam time to orange cone and practice a faint to one side first to the right then to the left. dribble to cone then do a step over and continue to opposite cone palyers dribble to orang econe and then to drag the ball on an angle and move to the right then do drags to the lefts
close ball control head up slow at first then quicker once they are bettter at it.
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This practice has no progressions
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