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Flick & Strike

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Key Points

  • Ready position
  • Press the thumb on the hurl
  • Hold the hurl at the top

How to Play

  • Mark out a grid (size depends on number of players) and place sliotars into the grid.
  • Players move around the square in the ready position.
  • On the whistle they move to a ball & flick it away.

Progression

  • Put players into pairs with a sliotar. One players tries to flick the sloitar away while the other attempts to strike it.

Equipment

  • Stopwatch & Whistle
  • Cones
  • Sliotars