Two players pass the ball into the board and receive the ball to run to the other rebound board. both player should reverse stick drag the ball and go past each other to then pass the ball into the rebound board again. and repeat the exercise.
Players can obviously forehand drag aswell but imortant is that the players have to do the same skill as each other otherwise they will clash.
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