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The Wild Cat Trap Zone Defense takes the traditional 3-3 Zone formation but flips the principles on their heads. 

Wild Cat Trap Zone

0:00 – Why we chose this zone.

1:23 – Thank you to our members!  Look what you’ve helped build!

2:49 – Get up to speed faster with POWLAX Courses

3:59 – How we’re going to move through the video.

4:53 – The Structure of the Zone

5:50 – Personnel

6:43 – 3-3 Zone Structure and General Rules

7:34 – 2-5-8 String

8:45 – Funnel vs Alley

12:58 – Playing the Ball at X

15:04 – Setting Traps in the 4/6

16:54 – Only 1 Player to Defend X

17:15 – Trapping and Rotating

18:30 – Pushing Strong Hand Sweeps Down The Alley

19:51 – Transition to Live Clips

20:57 – Clips 1 and 2 – Wild Cat Zone Overview

25:57 – Clip 2

30:03 – Funnel to Off Hand Sweeps

30:50 – Sending Strong Hand Sweeps Down the Alley

32:07 – Playing Players on the Wing

33:15 – Playing Picks on the Wings

34:15 – Playing Side 3v2’s

35:31 – Bumping the closest low pole to be the new Cat.

36:57 – Missing our Traps.

37:47 – Sliding to X

39:01 – A difficult set piece to play and when we beat a team for the first time ever!

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