Coaching Points
Practice moving your hands from palm-to-palm to back to back as quickly as possible without a ball, this movement pattern should help you, when you try to catch a ball!
You will need:
Bronze Challenge
Perform the task
Silver Challenge
Perform the task continuously 3 times in row
Gold Challenge
Perform the task continuously 5 times in row
Coaching Points
Place your middle three fingers in the centre of the cones and rest your thumb and pinky finger on the outer edge. As you lift the cones from by your knees to release the ball, try and rotate your pinky fingers up through the midline to thrust the ball up into the air. When catching; keep your eyes on the ball and be ready to move your body and hands to where the ball is going to land. Make a bowl out of the two cones under the ball as it falls and then close it back up to secure the ball once you have caught it.
You will need:
Bronze Challenge
Can you catch 10 in a row from 6 steps away?
Silver Challenge
Can you catch 15 in a row from 8 steps away?
Gold Challenge
Can you throw and catch for 90 seconds without dropping a single catch?
Coaching Points
Keep your eyes on the ball and take soft touches, practice slowly to begin with keeping the ball under close control. To make the task harder place the cones closer together. Use the inside of the left foot as the ball moves clockwise around the cone and the inside of the right foot as the ball moves anticlockwise around the cone.
You will need:
Bronze Challenge
Can you dribble around the cones in a figure of 8 shape three times using only the insides of your feet, without touching the cones?
Silver Challenge
Can you dribble around the cones in a figure of 8 shape three times using only the insides of your feet, without touching the cones and balancing a bean bag on your head?
Gold Challenge
Can you dribble around the cones in a figure of 8 shape five times using only the insides of your feet, without touching the cones?
Coaching Points
Hold the hoop in your fingertips and rotate your wrist in one direction. Move your feet out of the way to give the hoop plenty of space to spin. Untwist your wrist as fast as you can, lifting your hand upwards as you release with your fingertips.
You will need:
Bronze Challenge
Can you spin the hoop around with your dominant hand?
Silver Challenge
Can you spin the hoop around with your non dominant hand?
Gold Challenge
Can you spin two hoops at the same time; one in each hand?