Lacrosse Dodges Video
Improving Lacrosse Skills
Improving Your Lacrosse Skills
Mat Ward, a three time All-American Lacrosse player at the university of Virginia, says that playing wall ball is one of the best ways to improve your skills. He says for him the skills did not come quickly. He had to work at it. He remembers that it took him “a month or two” to just learn to cradle the ball. So his advice is stay with it. Practice daily giving an hour or more to it if you can.
Once you can run, stop, turn and reverse direction with out loosing the lacrosse ball start drills to increase your accuracy. Start as far as your field or at least fifty yards from the wall by scooping the ball from the ground. Charge the wall dodging, turning, changing direction until you get ten twenty yards from the wall, and take your shot — over hand, side arm or under arm, same for the off hand. Place a target on the wall. Keeping practicing on that spot until you can hit it nine out of ten times. Then move the target. Cover all locations of the goal. Then catch the ricochet.
Practice catching ricochets – high, low, in the middle, right, left, straight at you, anywhere a lacrosse teammate might throw it. Practice catching bounces — in every possible location. Pay more attention to the off hand. We usually have better coordination in the strong hand. So pay attention to the off hand.
Change the distance between you and the wall when catching ricochets. Start twenty – fifteen yards away. When you handle that well, move forward five yards, etc. It is a great exercise for improving your reaction time.
Ward says, “Patience is the key. It won’t come easy, and it didn’t come easy for me. It took me … months to get the hang of it, but once I did, my skills started to improve dramatically.”
Article by
Will Keeney
If you coach beginner through intermediate boys or girls lacrosse, I have found that PlaySports TV’s has a collection of training videos.
About the Author
Retired National Director of Women’s Health Care Division, Mead Johnson Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Retired clergy United Presbyterian Church USA
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