Abstract
In my last article, I emphasised the importance that dominating the contact zone has in both attack and defence, and then discussed the technical factors that determine the effectiveness of a ball carry. The aim of this article is to build on that discussion, then provide coaches with ideas for drills and progressions that they can use with their players. I am not going to fill up the rest of this article with training exercises, as I would much rather that coaches experiment and devise their own drills based on the concepts that we are going to discuss. If you understand the principles behind dominating the contact zone, the number of effective drills that you can create is endless. (Give a man a fish and he eats for a day, teach a man to fish and he eats forever.)