As we play against better and better in competition, we're going to have to learn how to do a one-handed cradle.
The purpose of the one-handed cradle is to use our free hand to block the defender from being able to check our stick.
So when we do a one-handed cradle, the first thing we want to do is we want to take our bottom hand off the stick,
and we want to extend it across our body.
Now people do this different ways. You could do it with your hand up like this. You could do it with your thumb down.
I like to do it with my thumb down, just so my hand is ready to go on my stick, so I'd be ready to pass or shoot.
With the one-handed cradle, we want to get our hand all the way up to the top of the plastic,
and we want to get our stick parallel to our body, our free hand is here, and we want to cradle backwards.
We don't want to swing this like it's a gate because the defenders will be able to time that out.
So we want to be able to bring this stick in, we want to be able to bring it back,
but the most important thing is you want to shield the stick with this free arm.