Breaking the Mark | breaking the mark is one of the key skills that all players

Throwing: Breaking the Mark by Brummie

If the cornerstone of defence is the mark, then breaking the mark is one of the key skills that all players need in order to play good offence.

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The ability to break the mark opens up lots more options to the offence. Imagine an offence where you were not able or willing to break the mark. Taking only throws to the open side would quickly leave you on the sideline, where the mark has the most possible influence as shown in Fig. 1. Here, the only uncontested options are backwards, laterally, or long throws to the far side of the field. One solution is to avoid getting trapped […]

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