How To Play Water Polo, Positions, Basic Rules, and Bad Habits to Avoid 

Check out our Regular Fouls video and the turnovers and exclusions video, those will help out a lot.

Good luck with the new program, glad to help!

You can still work your grip strength and work on spreading out your fingers and stretching them. Also, you should work extra hard on your ball handling skills to compensate, you can make it work.

I would add that there are also different exercises for a better grip, and using a smaller sized ball for drills and training also helps a great deal. I happen to have a really small 12-year old kid on the team, and he was always dropping the 4-size ball during drills, so after a few weeks i "demoted" him to the 3-size ball (he wasn't very happy to say the least), but after about 3 months of training with a smaller ball - his control and feel of the ball got way better - and currently he is able to manage pretty much all the drills with a 4-size ball very nicely - even though that his physical size and hand size remains the same. This solution was reasonable to me, and it worked very well. So i thought i'd share. Best of luck with your training!

@@ShaquaticsNet ah yes love a woman with ball handling skills

Awesome, we're also planning an off the lineup video that I think you'll like as well so look out for that one.

For a beginner player starting out, you always want to pick the ball up underneath. If you start out picking it up on top then you never develop the skill to pick it up underneath. Sometimes during a game you will need to pick it up underneath, and sometimes on top, but you need to be able to do both. Second, younger players who pick it up on top develop bad habits like using the ball as a floatation device, or starting on top of the ball and rolling it over which is just a waste of time. Walk before you run, learn to pick the ball up underneath really well, then as you get better and stronger, mix in picking it up on top. That's my recommendation.

Also if you have the ball with your hand on top the opposing player could push your arm down and they will get the ball due to the ball being below water.

The ball can come out or you can get a ball under

Coach Farkas is absolutely right, and not only you become significantly more susceptible to "ball under" by a slightly faster kid, but also, judging from what i've seen the kids on my team do - it teaches way less ball control. So i kinda mandate the classic weak-hand-to-strong-hand transition when picking up the ball...

When you pick it up from the top it's easier for the enemy to take a ball under

I would work on your ball handling skills in the water and up against a wall. You have to compensate for smaller hands by having superior ball handling skills. You can also work on your hand strength and ability to palm the ball. Put your good hand under the ball and push the ball fully into your good hand then try to submerge the ball under water. Do that 20 or 30 times each practice.

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Not sure what you’re talking about, can you let me know which part of the video you’re referencing.

@@ShaquaticsNet I checked one of the water polo player's detail. It said that the player's position is AT. I didn't understand whether it was offence or defence position.

@@Eternalsunshine222-y4w I'm not seeing that, there is no AT position, could it be the first two letters of FLAT were cut off? There is a flat position. That's the only thing I could think of, but there is no AT position.