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I need some help and advise I'm going to be doing my first solo drills with some under 11 boys on Tuesday and was wondering if this was suitable for 20 odd minutes My group is around 10-12 kids about medium skill level

Chloe Hilton

The first 3 drills are set up like this

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With the players starting at the first 2 cones

The first drill is 

Forward sprint to first cones backtrack to start sprint to second cones backtrack to 1st cone sprint to 3rd cone and back to 2nd cone and so on then either sprint back or backtrack back to start

2 each

Second drill is

Figure of 8 small steps round the 2 cones (quick feet) then quick feet between cones (the one were both feet end up inbetween the 2 cones then quick step both feet out) and sprint back 2 each

Third drill is

4 Square bounds in the 2 cones dribble with the ball in and out line of cones pass back then run do 2 each

Then I wanted to end it with a game of hungry hippos if u don't know what that is here's how I explain it

Players split into 2 3 or 4 teams

1 person from each team runs in gets a ball and runs back and tags there teammate to go in and get another and it carries on

Either till all balls are gone or time runs out

If we do time runs out you can steal from other teams only 1 player from each team in game at time no guarding boxes 

The person who's turn it is holds a bib to 

Like a battom

Team with most ball in box wins

I would like to know if this may be to much or if anyone has any ideas to switch it up or add/take away anything 

  • Hey Chloe, thanks for your question. These sound good. What is the aim for the session / of the practices? 

  • We do this kind of thing occasionally to work on ball control, usually at the start of a session. Typically we do it with poles rather than cones (less ability to cheat) and we start it from your point 3, so rather than just running we do it with the ball. Multiple lines running simultaneously, usually no more than 4 per line, ideally 3. First time the kids can use any technique they like through the cones but with a crisp turn at the end. Second time might be only weaker foot dribbling. third might be a specific movement to go around the pole (so maybe up in line with it on one side, then a drag back turn the other side), you can play around with it. We sometimes make them come back through the poles, sometimes sprint back with the ball, sometimes pass it back to the next person. We make it competitive across the teams but not so seriously that they're loosing focus on ball control. It's a useful one to have as an alternative activation drill while working on technical control. 

    We typically spend 15 minutes on it with some rests between the runs while we talk to them about focus areas to work on the next run, or reflect on what they could do differently next time.