Netball: Circle Edge Driving Drill

Develop your players' ability to land on the circle edge to reduce the pressure on the ball carrier and increasing the success of the pass.

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Delivering the ball midcourt through to the circle edge/shooters

Set up: 

Half court, two balls, 5+ players

1 player standing on base line, another player with the ball standing around the third line. 

Description:

Note: The video shows the drill being played out with 2 groups of players, you could just focus on one group i.e. 1 line, 1 V driver. The description is based on one group. 

Player on base line near shooting post, V drives towards court edge and receives a pass from the player in the line with the ball. 

Player who passes the ball drives directly to the circle edge in a straight line and receives a pass from the player who has driven out on the V. 

Player who had initially drove out now drives into a position under the hoop to receive a pass from their player and put a shot up. 

End drill – Feeding into circle

Set up: four corners of 2-3 players, 1 ball, goal third end of court.

Aim for the two groups of players on transverse line to hit the circle edge and feed ball into the circle to a shooter with a defending player.

Bottom left corner (A) player drives out along sideline. Receives a pass from the defending player in the circle.

Player from top left corner (B) drives straight into the court to receive a pass from the sideline player. 

Player B passes back to player A and drives towards the circle edge where player A delivers a long ball to player B as close to the circle edge they can get. Player A joins line where player A started.

Player from top right corner (C) drives to circle edge to help feed pass into player D who has driven from bottom right corner into the circle as shooter. 

Player B joins line player C started in. After player C delivers final pass to shooter, player C joins bottom right corner. Essentially, all players rotate anticlockwise around the 4 corners. 

Set up: A wall, one third space, one ball, 4+ cones, 2 players.

1. 4 cones are set up in a zig zag formation down the length of a third space towards a wall.
2. The ball is placed on the furthest away cone. 
3. A defending player stands in the middle of the cones, they are to ‘pick up’ the attacker when they drive out.
4. The attacker, drives out towards the first cone and zig zags towards all cones to move past the defender and get the ball off the cone.
5. The attacker passes the ball to the wall and gets the rebound. 

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Set Up:

• Two balls, four cones, 4-6 players.
• Cones set up as a diamond, the two feeders opposite each other with a ball each.
• Two players in the middle as attackers/receivers.

• Attackers use ‘little feet’ to move around the other attacker in the middle.
• Attackers then split and drive to the outside cones.
• Feeders deliver a ball into the middle of the diamond.
• Attackers receive the pass from their right and move around the other attacker with
• ball in hand to deliver the ball to the opposite feeder.