Cradling Overhead in Women's Lacrosse

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Alright now the basic cradle is very useful but you have got to learn how to cradle through defenders and still be able to protect the ball so you do not lose it. And one of those ways is to practice cradling over your head. Cradling over your head kind of gives you a way to move through people without hitting them and without having the stick so easy to be checked. So it is going to look like this. Your lower arm, the arm holding the bottom of your stick normally stays a bit more stationary then with the basic cradle, and your top hand is moving more. Now you want to be conscious of the fact that you have about a twelve inch imaginary sphere around your head that you cannot cradle in. I cannot cradle like this. Because if someone were to legally check my stick that would be very dangerous because it would be close to my face. And so that is a rule, if you cradle in your sphere the referees will call that and turn over the ball to the other team. So when you cradle over your head you want to make sure that you are at least a foot away from your head and sometimes it helps to practice doing that in front of a mirror, so that you can get your bearings about how far you are from your head, but just make sure that you are not in your sphere. And you can use this to cradle through players so that it is a little bit more difficult for them to get the ball.

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