Grab a coloured bib, place it behind you in your shorts a s a tail, without holding it with your hand. Then go and see if you can grab more tails from other players. Avoid others taking your tails by running into space, turning and twisting. see how many tails you can collect.
In this game its important for the kids that they are aware of space and how they can move to get away from other kids with and with out the ball.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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