just like the clean. i feel our biggest training effect comes from how we teach the athletes how to catch them. we tell our athletes to pretend that there is a brick wall behind their hands the second the ball touches there hand. catch the ball and stop, freeze the entire body, do not let the ball and their body to continue to move – be rigid, solid. a great drill for this is to have 2 athletes’ pair up and run across a gym playing catch. athlete a is jogging straight while athlete b is shuffling and passing to a. on the pass athlete a lands on one foot 