2 piles of balls either side of the box outside the D a team on each side next to the pile of balls one side will pass a ball into the box where the opposite team player will lead into and recieve the first touch should take them out of the box and into the D the second touch should be their shot
add an additional touch if too difficult for some groups add in a tyre or bunch of cones as a static defender (if it touches the tyre or cones then they re-join the queue) make it a competition by recording the collective total from each team teams swap sides to allow them to use both forehand and reverse
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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