As a report from Perth, Australia, so predictably put it, "(t)he appropriately named WAFL Umpire Coach Mike Ball gave our reporter Sinead Mangan a lesson...and he says 'bouncing the football is just a technique that some people have and some people don't have."
He's with the Western Australia Football League, rugby to us. The ruckmen (forwards) need to be able to maneuver when the umpire bounces the ball on the turf to start play.
To do this, Mike explained, the ball needs to go straight down, then straight up. "You don't have to bounce it too hard."
The technique is to take the ball in front of you with one hand on each end. Then, "(t)ake one or two steps up and as you go walking in, you lift it up above your head...you bring it out, bring the ball back to head height, perpendicularly up, and then with one foot, bend over and bounce it down."
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