Eggbeater:
- Knees high and wide apart
- Shallow kicks

Blocking:
- When moving forward aim for a balanced VERTICAL position, not falling over to the side
- Blocking hand is raised but crooked to 11 o'clock (keep shoulders out)
- Sculling hand works rapidly in the water pulling the player forward - knees high with short sharp kicks.
- Download blocking example right post 1
- Download blocking example right post 2
- Download blocking example left post 2
- Download blocking example right post and keeper

Jumping:
- Full extension, not flapping at the ball

Swimming with the ball:
- Head-up, try to look over the ball
- Strong leg-kick

Spider - used to ensure possession, moving horizontal to vertical:
- Head up
- Freestyle arms (short and sharp)
- Eggbeater legs

Defensive body position:
- Hips and legs close to the surface

Defending drives:
- Work to keep yourself between the attacker and the goal

- Take the extra strokes round the attacker
- Swivel with your hips on top of water
- Always keep your head above water

Dynamic swimming:
- On turns: quickly in and quickly out, hips coming around near the surface (feet, shins often break surface)
- Short, sharp strokes and big kicks on changes of direction

Passing, shooting:
- Knees high as in eggbeater
- Arm rotates around, not above the head - keep space between ball and head
- Shoulder and hip rotation
- Forearm bent upwards
- Leave the "off" hand in front
- Head still
- Hips facing direction passing or shooting towards
- On shot maintain a vertical position
- Download example of forearm upwards, parallel shoulder (Figlioli)
- Download example of forearm upwards (Avezedo)

Faking:
- Knees should be high and wide. Kicks should be shallow.
- Keep the forearm bent and pointing up - the arm should not be straight at the end of the fake. - Rotate the arm around and behind the head and not over it.
- Aim for a smooth rotation and always being in a position you can shoot from.

Releasing - four releases
- Jump half turn release: shrug into defender, make a step out to the pass, pick up the ball, kick up and rotate to make the pass.
- Stroke release: take a stroke in front of the defender, bring your knees and shins up into the defender's chest, take a second stroke with the same arm and rollout to receive the ball. The passer must make sure that they pass the ball to the correct spot on the water where the releasing player can easily move onto it, not too far away and not too close.
- Against tight, grabbing press: wrestle free, put shoulder into defender and kick away
- V release: receive a dry pass (others above are wet passes)

• Core skill: Defensive body position
• Core skill: Swimming with the ball
• Core skill: Spider
• Core skill: Shooting
• Core skill: Faking and Shooting
• Core skill: Protecting the ball and releasing

Now back to tactical stuff.