Hi! My name is Andy Corno with Leaders Lacrosse Camps, Clinics and Private Lessons, current Midfielder and Face-off man for the Philadelphia Barrage, here to show you the basics to lacrosse.
But now, we're going to focus on how to face off, and the basic rules to the face-off. First off, face-offs are very important aspect to the game. Face-off takes place at the beginning of every quarter, and after every goal. So, in a high-scoring game, this can really, really help your team game momentum, create transition, and allow your team to have more opportunities to score.
When we face off, and when we're getting started, we need to know the basic rules. First, everyone faces off right-handed. Never hold the stick in your left hand.
Next, when we go to approach the ball, we want to make sure that our back of our sticks are facing the ball. Don't have it like this, you have it like this. We need to know that our feet are lined up behind the line. We're not allowed to have our feet standing over the line; everything needs to be behind the line.
Next, along with our feet, our entire body needs to be behind the neutral zone. The neutral zone is an imaginary plane that goes straight up from the plastic part of your stick, where the metal meets the plastic. The imaginary plane comes up just like this and everything needs to be behind to the left.
The next rules along with the face-off are our sticks, need to be straight along the line. When we actually get down, stick needs to be straight with the line, not leaning over, not backwards. Next, our stick cannot lean in, or lean back. It needs to be straight on the line.
Next point is that the ball needs to be just about in the middle of our sticks. We can't have the ball way down on the throat like this or way up high like this. It's got to be lined up in the middle.
The next thing is that our sticks need to be off the white line, can't, beyond the white line. And lastly, your hands have to be on the ground, along with the stick, you can't have them hover over the ground like this. They need to be actually on the line.
When the ref blows the whistle, what we're trying to do is actually clamp onto the ball, and rake it out to ourselves. So, when you face off, they will look something like this. Ref will say, down, set, whistle!
That's how you face off.
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