Man-Down Rotation
Down a player — pressure ball-side and everyone rotates one spot behind it.
- Slidedefender leaves his man
Install notes
FRAME half (goal at top): 0.167 goal line · 0.36 top of 8m arc · 0.433 top of 12m fan. SEVEN slots: six field plus keeper against seven attackers. Rather than holding fixed zones, the six rotate with the ball — the ball-side high defender pressures, the off-side high slides into the middle, the elbows step up, and the crease defender never leaves. This is the answer to a man-up team that reverses the ball quickly, where a static 2-2-2 gets caught one pass late. The crease slot carries the hardest instruction: she does NOT slide out to the top, because a slide from the crease across the shooting lane is the classic women's shooting-space call and gives the free position straight back. DERIVED shape from the same zone principles — confirm the coach's own rotation rules before naming it. The seven dashed tokens are the man-up attack, ball on their right wing. Four arrows, and the fifth player who matters is the one WITHOUT one: CZ on the crease has no line, because sliding her out is the shooting-space call and gives the free position straight back. The women's game draws a zone rotation with the same notation as a man slide — one spot toward the ball is a slide, it just does not leave a mark behind.
Drop your players into the spots and push each one his line — his job only. Free for teams.
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