Netball: Follow your player

Develop your players ability to use all 3 stages of defence effectively in order to successfully gain possession.

Develop the defensive principles with your team, working on their man-to-man marking to halt the opposition?s attack

Developing your player's defensive skills, focusing on applying the three stages of defence to deny and limit the options for the opposition.

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

Players stand in pairs, with the worker standing behind the ball holding player.

Depending on where the ball holding player holds the ball the worker should respond to the position of the ball using fast feet.

If the ball is held high above the player's head, the worker needs to come in front of the other player. If the ball is held low the worker needs to rotates to the back of the other player, ball held to left/right worker responds to position of ball and snakebites to the left/right.

Slowly the two attackers pass the ball back and forth down the court towards the circle. The defender must move to the ball side of the player inside the circle.

The defender must remain on their toes and keep moving as the two attacking players can put the ball into the circle at any point.

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:-

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.