3 beats
- Beats
- Dodge
- Slide
- Cut
- Pass
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Zone defense
3-3 Zone Rotation
Verified in part · checked against Belgium’s national team playbook and Lax Goalie Rat
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their Point dodgesZone Top Right slides to the ball (Rotate)
- 2Their Point passes to their Right HighZone Low Right marks their Right High
- 3Their Right High passes to their Right LowZone Low Right sags
Coaching points
- Think of everyone tied to one rope. When the zone gets beat, the man beside the dodger slides and the whole defense turns one zone together on the Rotate call.
- With a crease attackman, the middle man stays home. With nobody on the crease, all six can rotate.
- The beaten man recovers to the zone left open, up top on the far side. Until he gets there, keep a stick in that skip lane.
- Rotate together or not at all: one man turning the wrong way is a goal. Never get beat top side; shade every dodger down.
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 and Lax Goalie Rat.
