Warm up drill using the right corner of the field, attacker curls in opening up wide play to secondary attacker, who curls baseline and throws ball to top.
Attacker 1: Concentrate on throwing the ball outside attacker 2 - towards the sideline - weighted for them to run onto. Extra difficulty - try and throw pass while hips are square to baseline. Attacker 2: Concentrate on picking the ball up behind, either by crossing the line or receiving on the reverse. Then focus on the baseline curl.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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