Playing with back to goal (continued) (chest and head control)
The 'target man' S must also be able to handle any type of service.
The pass to him, (when he has his back to goal) can arise at any height,
and he has to learn to deal with it.
The practices to deal with inproving these skills are not disimilar to those in the previous practices.
Practice 1
A good starting point is S marked by D as in diagram 1, facing server B
Diagram (1)
Exercise 1
B lobs the ball (by hand) to aim at S around chest height, and with D trying to pressurise him, S has to control the ball on his chest and as it drops lay the ball back to B.
Exercise 2
B lobs the ball again only this time S advances, leaps and heads the ball back to the server.
Diagram 2
D once again tries to pressurise S, while S must try and be accurate with his header , eg down to the feet of B as in diagram 2.
