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Process Essay: How To Play Water Polo

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How to play water polo The game of water polo is fun, yet quite complex. There are many rule and regulations you’ll need to follow. The game can be fun if you know how to play. So here are a few steps to help you be ready to play. First you’ll need to know how to tread water, and be able to do it for extended periods of time. What you’ll need to do is a technique called egg beater. What you’ll do is spin each leg in a circular, clockwise motion. If your do it correctly, then while one leg is under you body, the other should be outside his body. Also you’ll need to get you hands involved. You’ll do something similar to egg beater but it’s called skulling. You’ll move both hands in and out, while both hands should be in and out at …show more content…

To be a successful field player you have to be able to play all positions in the field, because unlike football or baseball, you don’t have an assigned position, you just go wherever there is a spot that isn’t filled. There a total of five positions you’ll need to play: Point, driver, wing and whole set. If you point, you are the furthest away from the goal and towards the center of the pool, you start with the ball on most possessions and determine how the play will start. If you are a driver, you drive. A drivers job is to either drive into whole set and “kick out” the current player that is there, or drive past whole set to attempt to draw their defender off of them to give whole set a scoring opportunity. If you play wing, you are on the two meter line and on either side of the goal. Your job as a wing is to either move up to drive when someone is kicked out of whole set or move in from the side and become a scoring …show more content…

Aside from Whole D, the rest of the player will play defense based on what the coaches call and by who they are playing. If your Whole D, then you are guarding whole set and that is your job. However there are multiple types of defense that the rest of the pool can run. For new water polo players and teams, there are two that you need to know. The first is a hard press, which is better to run against teams with who are weaker at the wholes set position. A hard press is where the defenders are playing man to man coverage and are trying to take who they are guarding out of the play. The second is called a drop, which is meant for teams with strong whole sets. While running a drop, all players drop off of who they are covering to take away the threat of whole set. When you player gets the ball, you go and press him and another player will drop off to help cover whole

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