This is a portable eco friendly soccer dummy. It’s portable aspect is due to its lightweight and sturdy design with a bottom that is weighted with water or sand. I used small Gatorade bottles as the main part of the dummy because of their lightweight design and sturdy plastic; these bottles are connected to the bottom of the PVC tube with string and bungee cord to keep them tight.

I wanted to build a “wall” of soccer players in order to practice kicking free kicks around such a wall. I started off with an idea to have a flat base and mesh players but this was too heavy and would be difficult to transport and store. Then we went for a round bottom that would roll back to centre with mesh players, we scraped this because again it was too heavy and very difficult to make before our deadline. This is when we got to our bottle idea that added an aspect of it being eco friendly and inexpensive. We took inspiration from a push puppet so we could string the bottles through the frame to keep them sturdy and allow them to snap back into position even when hit very hard with a soccer ball. The string that run through the frame and the bottles are connected to  elastic cords  at the bottom to keep the bottles in position..