It is a rule that you must cradle the ball when playing lacrosse. We cradle to protect our sticks and keep the ball in our sticks from the defenders. Defenders when they play use their long and short sticks to check you and get the ball out of your stick. This is why cradling is crucial and important, no good lacrosse player doesn't not know how to cradle.
Cradling helps you keep the ball in your stick while you are running. When you are cradling, hold the stick in your fingers, not your fist. It is the top hand that does all the work while cradling. The bottom hand is used to pivot or guide the stick. Holding it in your fingertips using your wrist elbow and arms, you are going to move it up and down in a cradling motion. When you start out it's okay to look at the stick making sure the ball stays where it's supposed to be.
After you master the basic cradle, you can do the cross-face cradle, the power cradle, or the one handed cradle often used by attack men to protect their stick. To get better at cradle, you just have to practice on your own. When you are practicing cradling, you should be running around and every now and then pretend somebody is in front of you. You should dodge the air and immediately start cradling again, see if you can do this while keeping the ball in your stick.
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