Push me, Pull me.

First question: where do you want to put the ball? We have a circle surrounding us and two teammates. Where are you wanting to put the ball and how are you telling your teammate what you are doing? This is part of your pre-draw routine.

Setting up:
The players’ feet should be set so that her eyes should be able to look, as best possible, straight down at the front foot. I prefer to have the top hand elbow inside the shoulders and not alongside the body. Alongside takes more time and muscle energy to catch up to the speed of the draw. Forearm, if possible, is either parallel to the ground or a little higher. The higher the arm gives the arm just a little more quick punch.

Push:
Foot stance is either straight with left foot lead or feet facing the left. We can use the foot stance with feet facing right if we intend to direct the ball back to our teammates behind us.
Head of the stick in the right hand. Our goal is to move the ball up and forward or to our left side.
Right hand is at the neck. The hand is held so the wrist is open and the palm is facing away from us (not facing the sky) and we are gripping the head with our fingers more than the palm of the hand. Wit that, we will curl it shut when we hear the whistle.
Left hand can be anywhere from the butt of the stick to about 1/3 of the way up.
For younger players, I suggest having the left hand up on the shaft. The reason we want to be that high is that our strength and response times are much better as we draw the ball into the air. With a shorter hold on the shaft, we will have better quickess in our muscles and more control of our stick. The hand is gripped over the shaft, so that the palm of the hand is almost facing the player. Wrist closed. Sort of a Motorcycle grip over the top. With this, the player will unwind the hand and wrist on the draw to spin the head open as they project the ball into the air.

As the whistle blows, we snap our arms together (like a clap that does not connect) so that the stick moves to verical. Pushing up is not, in the early years, the focus because as we pull the stick to vertical, the ball should gain loft anyway. The stick can go past vertical depending on how far from the draw spot we want to move it. Remember that, as we snap our hands to the middle of our body,our hips and legs are pulling our body through the space to our start stance.
Depending on where we want to put the ball, as we snap our hands together, we will push the upper hand out away from our body. We try to finish pointing a bit toward where we wanted to put the ball.

Foot stance is facing right if we intend to direct the ball back to our teammates behind us.
For this, as the whistle blows we snap the stick to vertical, but we are not looking to push it away. We are actually trying to pull the ball out of the opponent’s head and put the ball behind us. So, the upper hand does not push away, but pushes straight upward and keeps tight to the body. The twist of the hands will scoop the ball out of the opponent’s head and put it behind us.

Pull:
The pull stance will more frequently use an open stance so that the feet are facing the opponent and the body is ready to use the torque to pull the stick out of the draw.

The left hand is against the plastic head. The right hand is close to the butt of the stick. The right hand