Dribble and pass in play
Ready when: Catch and throw at the wall (b2) started.
What you are learning
Dribbling low with the fingertips and the head up, changing speed and direction, and passing (straight, bounce and overhead) while keeping to the three-step rule. Passing moves the ball faster than dribbling.
Words on this card Three-step rule, Dribble, Bounce pass, Interception, Keep-ball
- Three-step rule
- A player may take at most three steps while holding the ball.
- Dribble
- Bouncing the ball with one hand while moving.
- Bounce pass
- A pass that bounces once on the way, or one thrown from above the head.
- Interception
- Catching a pass meant for an attacker.
- Keep-ball
- A game where one team keeps the ball from the other by passing.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Bounce the ball low at the side with the fingertips, knees bent, eyes up.
- Catch it, take three steps and stop: that is the most you may take.
- Pass to a team-mate: straight at the chest, then a bounce pass, then over the head.
Your part while they practise
Call "change" for a new direction.
Step by step
- Dribble low and close with the fingertips, knees bent, head up.
- Change speed and direction on your call.
- Dribble round cones.
- Pass round a triangle: bounce passes and overhead passes.
- Keep the 3-step rule.
How much: 3 rounds of 3 minutes 10 min a session 3 days a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Ten passes
Keep-ball where a team scores by making 10 passes in a row.
Who plays: two small teams against each other, or 3 attackers against 1 defender; you referee.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Play in a marked area
- The team with the ball passes; everyone counts the passes aloud
- The other team tries to intercept, with no contact
- An interception, a dropped ball or a foul gives the ball to the other team and the count starts again
- Fair play
- A team with a grown-up must pass only bounce passes.
- Points
- 1 point each time a team reaches 10 passes in a row.
- Fouls
- The ball goes to the other team
- More than three steps with the ball
- A second dribble
- Pushing, holding or snatching the ball from hands
- Winning
- The most points in 5 minutes.
- 1 points for 1 star
- 2 points for 2 stars
- 4 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
Walk, big area.
Weaker hand, small area.
What you will see, and what to say
- the dribble goes too high
Low and close, fingertips
Below the waist. - the child stares at the ball
Head up
See your team-mates.
Self-check
Dribble 15 steps with the head up and no loss of the ball.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains dribbling, passing, awareness.
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