Drill: Mirror Slides
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Drill: Mirror Slides
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similar speed,
no ball first
1
X
Partners face each other four feet apart between the cones, the leader without a ball in the base version: 1 moves laterally toward the left cone and X1 slides to stay nose to nose, because the defender reads the hips, not the feet.
1 plants and reverses toward the right cone; X1 drop-steps and slides back the other way, keeping the plant foot loaded and the knee over the foot, because a knee that caves on the change of direction is a lost step and a sore knee.
1 stutters and fakes a go left before heading back to the middle; X1 mirrors it without crossing his feet or hopping, because the fake is what gets a tired defender upright and the drill is teaching him to stay low through it.
Progression: 1 steps straight at X1 and X1 backpedals to keep the gap, head level and hands wide, because adding forward and back turns a slide drill into a closeout and a retreat.
Last progression: 1 puts the ball on the floor and dribbles toward the left cone; X1 slides and contains him without reaching, because the ball changes nothing about the feet. Thirty seconds, then the pair switch roles and reset.
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