Students to be split into pairs, one coach to go with each pair. One other coach to keep time and give commands "GO" and "STOP". First of pairs to take a racquet and ball, coach should hold on to spare ball. On command "GO" student must attempt to bounce the ball on the racquet for as many times as they can without it hitting the ground in 1 minute where the time coach will shout "STOP". Each coach with a pair will record best attempt (i.e. not total of bounces in the whole minute but the highest amount of bounces before hitting the floor). Second of the pair will then go. Each pair will have 3 attempts, best score to be used and then all results collated and compared.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
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