When I started out at my local Club as a volunteer, level 1 Coaching Assistant, sessions were taken by an exuberant 1st XI player – lots of enthusiasm, diving catches and (attempted) big hitting, and always a fiercely contested session of one hand – one bounce, usually with said 1st XI player dominating the game.
The players seemed to love this activity, but to me, as a newly qualified “proper” coach, it looked as if one hand-one bounce existed only so the star player could show off. Not coaching, at all.
It’s fair to say that I never liked one hand – one bounce, but I have recently started to include it my own sessions with our Club U9s. And I think it has a place in the games-based learning panoply.
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