Netball: Follow the ball

Stand back and watch your team intercept the ball more, with this session!

Stick to your opposite number like glue with this up close and personal defending session and practice peripheral vision, shielding and communication in defence!

Teach your players how to use this venomous and incisive interception technique!

Turn up the pressure and win back the ball even quicker - as we recap body position, the 3 foot rule and making yourself look big!

Players work in pairs with one ball and three cones, placed in a triangle.

The feeder stands above the top of the triangle.

Using quick, small steps the worker has to rotate around the cones in a figure of 8 before then receiving the ball and returning it to the feeder at the top of the triangle.

In pairs ball between two player 1 holds the ball infront. As player 2 comes round the back player 1 releases the ball ( by lobbing the ball 10cm and retracting her hands)for player 2 to intercept

3 Blue players pass ball to each other and attempt to pass the ball to a static player White 4 (varying types of passes). Defender Green 1 adjusts positioning according to the position of the ball and she attempts to intercept feed.

Progression:-

Every player is involved in this defensive exercise.

1. The first player in the center passes to an outside player.
2. After passing the ball the passing player drives forward and defends the player who has just received the pass.
3. Once the defender is in place the player to the right of the player who has received the ball should sprint into the center and look to receive a pass (bounce, chest or high) from the outside player.

Once the player in the center has the ball the drill can begin again.