Rugby Drills E-Book

Eamonn Hogan

• Herausgeber: Crowood
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Crowood's Rugby Drills is a collection of 125 activities, practices and games designed to improve coaching sessions at all levels of the game. The drills are organised into chapters according to a particular skill or phase of the game, from the warm up to handling, contact, lineout, scrum, kicking and defence. Each chapter starts with a series of simple activities before progressing through to more complex ones, each broken down into step-by-step explanations and diagrams, as well as guidance on how to increase the level of difficulty.Tried and tested over a number of years, and proven to work in developing skills and teamwork with players of all abilities, many of the drills were created by the author, while some have been used by the most famous coaches in the world. All of them were designed for use without the need for specialist and/or expensive equipment. Aimed at new coaches of youth and adult rugby, as well as coaches who want to review/improve their methods, it offers lots of ideas and is superbly illustrated with 250 colour diagrams.

Leseprobe

RUGBY DRILLS

125 ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE YOURCOACHING SESSIONS

Eamonn Hogan

THE CROWOOD PRESS

First published in 2014 byThe Crowood Press LtdRamsbury, MarlboroughWiltshire SN8 2HR

www.crowood.com

© Eamonn Hogan 2014

This impression 2016

© Eamonn Hogan 2014

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978 1 84797 656 7

Acknowledgements

This book would not have been made possible without the kindness and hard work of many throughout the last twenty-plus years who really deserve to have their contributions noted here but for brevity reasons, I will name check just a few.

In the USA, I would like to thank Paul Holmes, Tom Rooney, the citizens of Obetz and Columbus Ohio, Luke Gross, Kevin Battle, Ben Parker, Paul Keeler, Lisa Rosen, Danielle Miller, Kathy Flores, Brett Mills, Coilin Jones, Sean O’Leary, Dr Steve Durant, Bruce Maclane, Mike Tolkin, Bob Weir, Lance Connolly, Mike Diamantopoulous, Dan Payne, Scott Lawrence, John Connolly, Drew Fautley, Michael Engelbrecht and Will ‘Salty’ Thompson. And the inimitable Paule and Ann Barford – among the top five coolest people I have ever met.

Thanks to Andy and Debbie Byrne, the best rugby administrators I know and to the players, coaches, referees and administrators of Lincoln RFC for the kindness they have shown my family over the years

At Leicester Tigers, from both the past and the present I would like to thank the following: Dusty Hare, Andy Key, Neil McCarthy, Carl Douglas, Graham Rowntree, Neil Back, Mike Penistone, Richard Cockerill, Pat Howard and Scott Clarke. Final thanks must go to the one person who spent most of her time over my five years at Tigers stopping me from making a complete fool of myself – Teresa Carrington, thank you so much.

Thanks to Dan Cottrell at Green Start Media whose confidence in me led to my meeting with the Crowood Press.

To my brother Sean and his wife Trish and to my parents Mary and Thomas Hogan – my passion for sport, my love of family and the belief that I could achieve far more than my education may suggest, are all down to you. To my sons Brandon and Ewan – you continually make us laugh and fill us with pride with everything that you do.

Finally, to my wife Samantha. – mother, MSc, rugby coach, rugby referee, hockey umpire, paramedic, university lecturer, advisor to the RFU and published author. All of this and she still has time to stop me killing our children with poorly cooked food. Thank you for being the most significant part of my life.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: The warm-up

Chapter 2: Passing

Chapter 3: The breakdown

Chapter 4: The line-out

Chapter 5: Scrum confidence

Chapter 6: Kicking

Chapter 7: Defence

Chapter 8: Speed up the game

Chapter 9: Questions about the game

Index of Drills by Player Position

Introduction

In my time as a rugby coach, the one phrase that has annoyed me the most is, ‘Rugby is a simple game, really.’ If it is a simple game, why are there five levels of rugby coaching award in the UK?

Rugby is really not a simple game, no more than chess is simply a matter of moving a few strange-looking figures around a board. Getting across to a new player the simple idea of running forward and passing backwards can attest that ‘simple’ isn’t really a word that springs to mind. With patience, understanding and a willing participant, play does improve with practice. Over time, a greater appreciation of those who do play rugby with a reasonable degree of skill soon becomes apparent.

As difficult as it is to play rugby, many assume the major challenges are over once they decide to step into the spotlight and become a coach. Coaching any sport is a significant challenge that can be aided by having played that sport but, for many coaches, their children or their partners drew them to rugby so they may not have any real background in rugby to call upon. It is in these cases, where the parent or player has stepped into a new role in rugby, that this book becomes invaluable.

When people attend coaching courses, they do so with the understanding that they need to progress their own skills and knowledge to aid the growth of their own team. What isn’t so forthcoming on these courses is how to maintain a level of energy about your sessions over the course of several seasons following that original qualification.

There are many challenges put before a coach but primary among them is the desire to keep reinforcing the same positive ideas in new and imaginative ways, which is where this book can help you the most.

This book has been written in an easy-to-read format along with well-developed and thought-out activities that will aid you in getting your messages across to your team while also making them think carefully about what it takes to complete the challenges you have placed in front of them. Many were created by myself but some have been used by the most famous coaches in the world and I have made them much more user-friendly for the development of players in rugby.

These activities were designed for you to use without the need of purchasing specialist and expensive equipment, as all that is required to complete the activities within this book are a few basics available to every rugby coach within a club or school:

Willing players

A number of rugby balls

Cones of various colours

A few tackle shields

A few tackle bags

A stopwatch

A whistle

This book is designed to sit next to your laptop or in your home, to find that drill that really nails what you want to achieve from the next session with your team.

The book does not pontificate on why a drill needs to be used, why your team should use it, or when it needs to be put into place in your season; it simply passes on the drill, with a very straightforward explanation of what is required without trying to make them out to be more than they are.

Remember, you are the coach of your team and although there are many books that can tell you how to coach, this book assumes you know your team better than anyone else and what you really need is a resource to emphasize a point to them in an imaginative way – that’s it.

I hope you and your team enjoy the drills in this book and I wish you continued success.

CHAPTER 1 – THE WARM-UP

This chapter contains the following drills designed to facilitate warm-up sessions.

Sprint Relays

Leg and Lower Back Warm-Up for Rucking

Physical Intensity

Pre-Match Warm-Ups

Ruck Warm-Up on Hard Ground

Use the Field (1): Aerobic Runs

Use the Field (2): Aerobic Interval Training

Use the Field (3): Chase Sprints

Use the Field (4): Staggered Sprints

Use the Field (5): Dynamic Warm-Up Channels

CHAPTER 1

The Warm-up

In 1991, I went on my first coaching course courtesy of the Royal Air Force and I was the youngest by twelve years. On arrival, we assembled on the side of the field, put our boots on and waited for the lead tutor to appear and dazzle us.

He duly arrived with a big smile on his face and asked me to think of a number between one and thirty… I said ten. ‘Ten laps of the field it is, boys – off you go!’ Off we went and as a fairly fit rugby player at that time, I was back and sitting down in no time, but for my retired, ex-prop colleagues the same could not be said. It took forty-five minutes for them to return and the tutor just stood there reading his notes, occasionally talking to ones that had finished about the recent matches they had seen or did they know so-and-so from such a team. No mercy shown.

When the final man arrived back, he asked me to pick a number between one and twenty. Learning from the last time I immediately said ‘One’. ‘Right, that’s one minute’s rest and we are straight into the basics of handling!’ The next hour and twenty minutes were hell on earth for the older guys on the course. They kept dropping the ball, running for water and missing their turn in drills. It was an absolute shambles. Finally, he blew the whistle and dismissed us for lunch. As we walked away, he shouted: ‘Oh, by the way, never make your players run laps of the field before they train or it will be a waste of your time and theirs. See you after lunch.’

It was a lesson in coaching I have never forgotten.

The lesson I learned all those years ago is one that I would like to pass on to every player and coach of the game. Few coaching courses actually spend any real quality time with coaches telling them how to set out a warm-up. It is often only when a new coach has experiences of working with highly knowledgeable peers or with a high quality coach in their playing career, that they realize how important a warm-up actually is.

COMMON ERRORS

There are many ways to complete a warm-up with your team but you should not solely rely on your own personal experience on how to do your team’s warm-up. A teaching friend of mine says that even history changes and if you rely on your own time as a player when it comes to the warm-up, there is a better than even chance you will be about fifteen years out of date.

Do you, as a coach, do any of these?

Send the players on a run and when they get back ask them to do a little bit of stretching?

Use the same warm-up for every session?

Use warm-ups you have seen in other sports that have no link to rugby?

Allow players to play touch before the session starts?

Allow players to kick who never kick in matches (especially at posts!)?

If you do, you are not alone. Supervised, task-specific warm-ups are key to aiding your players not just for now but also for their longterm future health. Things that were common twenty years ago are still seen today but sports coaching has moved forward dramatically and preparing your players for the rugby game is now just as important as the actual playing of the game.

So what’s the correct way to do a warm-up? Do I need a specialist to help me? Warm-ups are a very weighty subject and there are hugely qualified people who have written award-winning books and videos who could give you a better treatise on the warm-up than myself. However, if you look at the warm-up in a more thoughtful way, you can change the process without having to be a world-class expert.

INTENSITY

Figuring out the best way to approach the warm-up is usually based on what resources you have available. When you first start coaching, you put some drills or activities together and call it a training session. Trust me, every coach has done that at one point in his or her early career; there is nothing to be ashamed of in that.

At a normal club training session, the players’ mindset when they arrive is not at game pace intensity. It’s okay for you as the coach to tell the players that they have a problem in a certain area of the game but unless you can repeat the intensity of match play, they will not see what you have seen. The players need to experience match-like pressure to show them what you saw and then provide them with preventative measures that can aid them in their next competitive fixture.

Some of the more experienced players will be honest enough to admit that there is an issue, and will have identified it themselves on match day but it’s the egotistical and the talent-blind you have to convince. (I know you could film it and show it to them but most sessions of amateur teams are field-based and only rarely get a chance to go indoors.)

So how can you make a game mistake repeatable in training? The training session has to be as close to game intensity/pressure as possible before you can present your players with strategies to combat them. To get to that intensity, you have to complete a warm-up that will get the players to that point.

NON-CONTACT SESSIONS

Although it might seem a little simplistic, I cannot stress enough how important it is to focus on the body movements of your players. If you are doing a non-contact warm-up for handling for example, the upper body needs a little more concentration especially on the way the arms swing across the body. As you run in the warm-up, replicate the passing movement, even without the ball in the hands, and possibly include some evasion steps to the left and right that you wish your players to complete during the exercise.

Also, don’t be afraid to have non-opposed passing exercises as part of your warm-up. Remember, you are building the session to reach a game intensity outcome and there is no time limit to a warm-up. If you want low-intensity stuff to be useful, work on technique before you get to the main event. Take your time: it’s a process, not a quick fix.

Also, a warm-up is a great opportunity to really hone in on the technicalities of the skills you wish to explore. You haven’t reached game intensity yet so you can just drop a few pointers in as they begin passing, running, etc. There is never a bad moment for a five-second coaching point.

In a non-contact session, you are trying to place mental pressure, in minimal space, onto the players so develop the session’s structure accordingly. By working on movement and passing in the warm-up, you have signalled to the players’ mind and body that there will be no physicality in the session and reinforced that you want thoughtful solutions to the challenges you have placed in front of them without the danger of getting ‘smashed’ in a tackle. (Ideally of course you want thoughtful solutions at all times, but one step at a time ….)

CONTACT SESSIONS

If your team’s issue is in the contact area, for example, simply getting them to smash into each other is not going to bring you the outcome you required –not if you want to have any control over your learning environment. At the start of the session, you must begin by changing their mindset that tonight’s training session is going to be on this area. You can say it, but nothing sets a mindset for contact than a controlled, competitive warm-up. It sets the juices flowing.

1 vs. 1 or 2 vs. 1 physical activities will allow the players to get their ‘game face’ on while you are able to build the players to a point where you believe they are close to match intensity. If you want competition at the end, signal it in the warm-up and build slowly. The length of these 1 vs. 1s or 2 vs. 1s depends on whether the groups are finding the exercise too easy or too hard. You don’t want anyone standing around so when creating the competition, make sure everyone is paired with someone of his or her own position or of similar build. This will make the contests as competitive as possible.

As with non-contact, there is no time limit to warm-up so if you want to stay with 1 vs. 1 work, then stay with it. My advice here would be to ensure that each group of players has a ball to look after while they are in competition with each other – it’s that way in the game so why not have that competition at all times?

MATCH WARM-UPS

Having spent all of those hours working with the players on set pieces, handling, breakdowns and so on, you turn up on game day, do a warm-up that bears no relation to the game you wish to play and subsequently get beaten.

As the coach, you instinctively know how your team plays. More experienced coaches will have completed a player audit and fashioned a team style based around the findings. Once you know what you wish to do to win the game, you should create a warm-up that prepares your players to meet that style.

If you feel that winning quick ball is key to your success, then rehearse your breakdown technique in the warm-up. Alternatively, if you think you have a chance of beating the opposition by running the ball wide, then practise that.

Note: change your warm-ups every month or so. You are looking for the warm-up to prepare the players’ mind and body for game play but if they simply go through the motions having seen your warm-up a million times before, they will not get to where you need them. They will switch off, distract others and generally tune out.

SPRINT RELAYS

The difficulty with running sprint sessions is trying to make sure everyone puts in an equal amount of effort while also avoiding occasions when players can be seen to be running at half speed to preserve energy for later in the session. Try this drill to ensure all parties put their full effort in while working with peers in a similar position to theirs.

How it works

Fig. 1.1

Fig. 1.1 At various points around the field, place marker cones as start/finish lines. The length of those sprints depends on what distances you wish your players to participate in at that time of the season. Place a team of sprinters at each marker cone – each team is made up of players in a similar position. This allows each to gauge where they are on the pecking order when compared to their peers. At one of the marker cones, place two teams.

Fig. 1.2

Fig. 1.2 The coach starts the session but every sprint after this is started by the first player to arrive at the finish line for that particular sprint – i.e. they start the team waiting to go. The session is completed when every player gets back to where they started.

In our example, team F starts team A. The first arriving player from team A finishes, they start team B’s sprint, and so on.

LEG AND LOWER BACK WARM-UP FOR RUCKING

If you are asking players to get lower when clearing out a ruck, it would help if the muscles they are being asked to use were ready to go when you made that point to them later in the session. This simple activity allows the players a little fun but also really gets the muscles working.

How it works

Fig. 1.3

Fig. 1.3 Three players working together, with one shield working between the try line and the 22m line.

Fig. 1.4

Fig. 1.4 Player 1 puts his hands on the shield and pushes it to the 22m where player 2 will push the shield to player 3 and so on.

Note: as the players become more fatigued, they will have the urge to raise their body height, resulting in the shield not moving forward.

PHYSICAL INTENSITY

This drill really gets the blood flowing and adds a little aggressive competition prior to a physical contact session.

How it works

Fig. 1.5

Fig. 1.5 In a 10m × 10m square, four players stand in a circle with a fifth player in the middle. The four players on the outside bind as tightly together as they can around the middle player – they are not allowed to bind onto the middle player. The middle player must have their arms directly above their head. On the coach’s call, the middle player has fifteen seconds to escape the circle.

Fig. 1.6

Fig. 1.6 If the middle player succeeds, his teammates must complete a punishment task (push-ups, etc.). If the middle player is unsuccessful, his four team mates lie on the floor and the middle player has thirty seconds to drag them out of the square or receive a further punishment exercise.

PRE-MATCH WARM-UPS

After many, many hours of practice, with highly planned training sessions, you arrive at the day of the match and you suddenly find that your team is simply lacklustre. Of course there are a hundred reasons why this might have happened but one of the most common is that your warm-up hasn’t allowed the players to mentally prepare for the rigours ahead. Here, I show you a different way of thinking about the pre-match warm up.

How it works

On match day, you will have the exclusive use of half the field – use it all.

Fig. 1.7

Fig. 1.7 Divide your half of the field into three distinct areas:

Area 1 – handlingArea 2 – contactArea 3 – defence

It is at your discretion what you wish to complete in each of these areas and for how long but I always like to do my defence work close to our try line as it plants the seed that when we get into this position, hard work must follow.

RUCK WARM-UP ON HARD GROUND

To develop your team’s contact skills when the ground is at its hardest is a difficult thing to do. In parts of the world where the sun always shines, hard ground is a fact of life; however, there is a way to warm up for contact without throwing yourself on the ground. This activity allows a degree of contact to occur but also allows your players relative safety when falling to the ground.

How it works

Fig. 1.8

Fig. 1.8 Place a number of shields on the ground in two lines. Players work in pairs.

Fig. 1.9

Fig. 1.9 Player 1 runs with a ball to a shield on the floor and falls, with correct technique, onto it. Once on the ground, they pop the ball up to player 2, who runs over player 1 and falls onto the next shield. Player 1, by this time, is back on their feet ready to take the ball from player 2. The drill is a continuous one until all of the shields have been negotiated.

USE THE FIELD (1): AEROBIC RUNS

Sometimes young coaches forget that the field has markings on it that can be used in very useful ways to judge many different things about your players. The next few drills look at innovative ways you can use your rugby field as a fitness asset. All of them will allow you as the coach to meet the needs of your players while also having them work where you can see them all – when tiredness comes, some can try to hide!

How it works

Fig. 1.10

Fig. 1.10 Starting on the try line, each player must run to each full line and back. You can set a time for each player position; for example the props do not have the same time as the wingers.

USE THE FIELD (2): AEROBIC INTERVAL TRAINING

Interval training is a series of activities that are not of the same intensity at all times. In this example, it is sprints interspersed with jogging and walking rest periods. This can help your team prepare for the season as the game of rugby isn’t played at full intensity at all times but when speed or aggression is required, it would help if the body was already adapted and adjusted to that style by completing tasks such as these.

How it works

Fig. 1.11

Fig. 1.11 Using the markings on the field as start or finish lines, each player starts at one corner and follows the directives that you set out. In this particular example: walk to 22m, jog from 22m to try line, sprint across the width of the field and repeat on the other side. You can of course use variations or different types of interval training for each playing position.

USE THE FIELD (3): CHASE SPRINTS

Competition in training is essential in creating a successful rugby programme so this drill pits two players of equal ability to chase each other down over a shortened course.

How it works

Fig. 1.12

Fig. 1.12 Have player 1 (the ‘fox’) stand on the corner of the ‘dead ball’ area of your field. Have player 2 (the ‘rabbit’) stand on the corner of the field directly in front of them.On the coach’s call, the rabbit sprints to the 22m flag diagonally across from them, round the flag and runs along the 22m line to the finish. The fox has to catch the rabbit.

Note: never underestimate how competitive your players are with each other; it is essential that you pair players of near-equal ability to get the best out of this activity.

USE THE FIELD (4): STAGGERED SPRINTS

The one area that concerns most front five players is that when it comes to fitness, the fastest players get the most rest. If you think about it logically, a prop doesn’t have to sprint as far as a winger might in a match, so why make them complete the same sprints in training?

Also, if you make every player run 100m, the players who finish first will be recovering while many of the team are still working. Here is a drill that allows you to get everyone working at the same intensity level with each receiving equal recovery periods before continuing.

How it works

Fig. 1.13

Fig. 1.13 Depending on which position each player plays, decide which lines they sprint between. In this example, all players must sprint to the try line, but each position starts on a different line to ensure that all players finish the sprints at the same time. The props start on the 10m line closest to the finish line. The second row start on the half-way line. The back row start on the furthest away 10m line. The half backs (9s and 10s) and centres start on the far 22m line. The wingers and full backs start on the far try line. On the coach’s call, each player sprints at their fullest to the try line. It may take a little ‘promotion’ to sort out but what you are looking for is a genuine race to the try line with each player having a realistic chance of winning.

Note: if you feel a player is finishing significantly further ahead than the rest of his group, ‘promote’ them into another team further back. At first they will not be pleased, but secretly they will be happy you have noticed their individual abilities.

USE THE FIELD (5): DYNAMIC WARM-UP CHANNELS

One of the newest innovations in warm-up over the last twenty years has been the growth of ‘dynamic stretching’. Much has been written on the subject of dynamic stretching and there are a number of YouTube clips showing what should be done to complete it correctly. However, this drill gets the best use out of it for your team whilst ensuring that they are constantly working.

How it works

Fig. 1.14

Fig. 1.14 Mark out two channels, one of which starts under the posts. Working with teams of four, begin the dynamic stretching activity, working down one channel.

At the end of the channel, all four players stop, ensure they are all in a line and then ‘shuffle’ into the next channel as a line. Once in the other channel, they turn around, and work back to the start again while completing the same activity they completed in the previous channel.

CHAPTER 2 – PASSING

This chapter contains the following drills designed to develop skills in passing.

Basic Passing (1)

Basic Passing: Balance

Basic Passing (2)

Basic Passing: Fatigue

Basic Passing (3)

High Intensity Passing: Fatigue

High Pressure Passing: Space

Scrum Half Passing

Continuous Reaction Drill for 10s

Channel Running

Clearing Pass (1)

Clearing Pass (2)

Clearing Pass: Messy Ball

Running from Depth (1)

Running from Depth (2)

Running from Depth (3)

Three vs. Two

Running from Depth (4)

Starting the Scan

Random Attack and Defence

Attack the Space (1)

Attack the Space (2)

Beat the Full Back

Reaction and Communication

The ‘No-Look’ Pass

High Intensity Drill: Fatigue

Loop Attack

CHAPTER 2

Passing

Although one of the key basic skills of the rugby game, passing is often assumed as a player skill rather than one that needs upgrading regularly in training sessions. There is a very famous story of an England coach completing a tackling training session in the mid-1990s and one of the players admitting to him that he hadn’t been taught tackle technique since he was seven years old, as all coaches he had played for assumed he could do it as a professional rugby player. How often do you check that all of your players can actually pass correctly off both the left and right hand?

The key factors of a pass are among the very first things coaches are tasked to teach but what is often forgotten as players mature is how important it is to return to the skill and how it is executed under pressure.

Passing is often rushed, inaccurate or poorly completed simply as a result of misreading the defence but we as coaches do not return to that skill as often as we should. Throughout this book I stress the fact that players must be asked to use their skills with opposition, building to the point where they become comfortable under pressure and are able to make positive, insightful decisions in the most hectic of conditions.

That being said, the reason why most teams cannot reach the point in the defence where they are able to exploit a space is often down to an inability to pass the ball in front of the receiver who runs onto the ball. A well-placed pass in front of a receiver will allow the ball to reach its target before the defence can slide across and fill the break in their defence.

While looking at these passing drills, keep in mind how often your players place the ball in front of the receiver, allowing them to catch the ball and look at the defender with only a small adjustment of the head. Successful completion of the drill may be wholesale issues with your team’s overall skill levels but don’t throw all of your hard work out of the window. Often it can be something so simple that even the best coaches can miss it so I would urge you to run a simple ‘passing the ball’ exercise with your team and see where they stand when tasked with a simple activity.

The reason that some of your players may be unable to complete the drill isn’t necessarily that they do not see the solution; it may be they do not possess the passing ability to complete it.

BASIC PASSING (1)

This drill is designed to ensure that players can pass left/right but run straight.

How it works

Fig. 2.1

Fig. 2.1 In groups of three, players pass along the line but must stay running forward and within the channel created by the lines/cones. This activity allows the coach to see which players have difficulty passing; it stops attack ‘drift’ that closes down space out wide; and it allows the coach to see which players need a little help.

To increase difficulty

Increase distances between the passes.

Increase the speed of the run.

Put a time limit on the number of passes that need to be made to ensure everyone gets their hands on the ball.

Reduce the width of the running channel.

BASIC PASSING: BALANCE

Despite what many coaching manuals will tell you, you cannot always determine which foot is placed forward when you pass a ball to a colleague. This drill gets the players to isolate their upper body and arms to make passes without having any assistance from the lower body.

How it works

Have two players facing each other with a ball, one of whom is on one leg, 10 metres away.

Fig. 2.2

Fig. 2.2 Player 1 passes the ball to player 2 (on one leg) who takes a pass and immediately passes back. Player 2 then bounces 90 degrees to the left and takes another pass – immediately passing it back.

Fig. 2.3

Fig. 2.3 When player 2’s back is to his partner, he needs to receive one pass on the right side, pass it back and then one on the left side, pass it back, then bounce 90 degrees again. The player on one leg keeps moving 90 degrees until they have completed two full turns (twelve passes); then change to their other leg and continue. Then change partners.

Note: the side the ball is caught on is the side the ball must be passed back, i.e. the ball caught by Player 2 on the right hand side must be passed back from that side.