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What is the add 2 drill?
Pat Obrien
3
What’re your thoughts on backstroke’s place in the counter attack? Coaches often say that rolling onto your back for a few strokes could cause you to lose your advantage - do you think that’s true?
Stephen Loomis
4
What are some ways that you teach athletes when to push and take risks finishing the CA and when to pull back and run a patient offensive set?
Ian Davidson
5
Can you give some examples of goalie drills you utilize?
Pat Obrien
6
You have an aside in your practice plan dedicated for goalies (but still has relevance to the objective). How much time are they spending focusing on their warm up/skills/passing before being added with the filed players? How much time would you reccommend having your goalies focus on what they need before coming into the fold?
Elyssa Hawkins
7
How do you teach your athletes to read the differences/cues between reading Advantage Counterattack and Transition counter into half court?
Connor Levoff
8
Do you have a preference about which post fills in first when setting up a 4-2, on a full 6 man counter?
Anonymous Attendee
9
What are you thoughts on how to approach a game against another team that loves to push tempo (assuming youre a tempo pushing team too) - but they do it better (they beat you more / get more goals from counter)? Does this change your strategy in how you CA?
Paul Splitt
10
Do you have strict parameters on the first outlet pass or do you let the players have freedom to make those decisions based on the situation?
Carin Crawford
11
are there drills that you run to specifically focus on counter defense? or is this just taught naturally through the drill?
Beth Harberts
12
Is Off the Deck on Spotify?
Elyssa Hawkins
