This week's exercises are combination play patterns from our book, 'Improving Your Team's Speed of Play'
I have deliberately left these sequences until last as I feel that they can be the most difficult to get across to the players, but which, if understood and performed well, can bring the most rewards when reproduced in a match. Much of what has already been described can be viewed as “combination play” with the passing and moving involved. However, the following sequences raise the level of movement required and when performed at match speed equip the players with ideas that can overcome tight defences.
All of these routines use only one ball and would be wasted with numbers over thirteen or fourteen that leave too many unoccupied for too long.Until the players understand the pattern they can find it fairly disconcerting, but persevere because once they do get it going at a quick tempo they will find it very enjoyable. To make it as simple as possible study this series of diagrams.
Having received, B then leaves by passing to the outside where one of the sequences described in earlier diagrams can be performed.
