Communication gettin the players on the cones to stop the player getting onto a free cone.
1. Get players to pick a cone apart from one. 2. Those with a cone place it down within the squar you hav eset up with at least one foot on the cone. 3. Then place a cone down with no one on it. 4. That player without a cone has to try and get a foot onto the free cone. 5. The players on the cones have to stop that player from getting on a free cone, by moving around cones. This gets the players thinking and communicating with each other to stop that player getting a free cone. Try and beat the time they got last time the drill was completed.
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