5 beats
- Beats
- Pass
- Recover
- Fill a spot
- Cut
- Shot: heavy dash into the goal
- Ground ball
- Empty spot
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Man-up · 3-3 · 6 on 5
4-Man Side Wheel
Verified in part · checked against Belgium’s national team playbook, UVM Club Lacrosse, LaxAllStars and Wikipedia (the rule); POWLAX (the 4-man path)
The play, beat by beat
- 1Umbrella Right passes to Right WingTheir defenseman rotates
- 2Right Wing carriesUmbrella Right fills the point
- 3Right Wing passes to CreaseCrease steps down
- 4Crease (now Right Wing) shoots on goalLeft Wing cuts
- 5Left Wing backs up the shotUmbrella Point (now Crease) cuts
Coaching points
- Start the wheel when the ball hits a corner. Carry into the next spot and throw it back to the man filling the spot you left.
- If their zone does not rotate with the carry, the filler has the shot.
- POWLAX also runs a top wheel: the top right man carries to the middle, top center fades to top left, top left cuts the middle and the crease floats out to the top right.
- The point is to make their defenders leave their areas and talk.
- Nobody is at X in a 3-3, so two back up every shot: the low man opposite the ball chases it to the end line. On a shot that goes out, the team of the nearest player gets the ball.
How it was checked
A standard play the sources back, but a step or detail of it rests on a single source or on our own reading of them. Verified in part · checked against Belgium’s national team playbook, UVM Club Lacrosse, LaxAllStars and Wikipedia (the rule); POWLAX (the 4-man path).
