2/5/2017 - Winter Workouts

Time	Drill
10 Min	Line Drills Righty outside with a shallow arc Lefty outside with a shallow arc Ground balls righty Ground balls lefty Rightly inside quick sticks Lefty inside quick sticks
5 Min	Explain Ground Ball Technique
10 Min	Round Up A great drill that allows for many touches with ground balls and provides a competitive relay race for kids. Divide kids into 4 equal groups Place 4 cones at equal distance away from a center point At the center point, drop all your balls, 20+ balls recommended Have your kids line up on the 4 cones Blow the whistle and the kids run into middle to get ground balls and run back to their starting cone When the player scooping the ball returns past the cone, the next player goes Any ball racked, must be dropped, players can only scoop up one ball at a time Note: Variation is to have coaches in the middle checking kids sticks
10 Min	Cradling On The Run Two hand cradling, whistle blow switch hands One hand cradling, whistle blow switch hands Cradling with light defense, learn now to protect stick
20 Min	2 on 2s
20 Min	Warmup Keep Away Build an area with cones about the size of the top of the box to the mid line Have 6 defenders and 5 offense Offense keeps the ball away without going out of bounds If ball turns over, subtract a defender and add an offense Variation: If ball touches ground, turnover