Netball: Snake bite distraction

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

Place some cones in a large circle, using more cones than players. Each player stands behind a cone.

Moving on the balls of their feet with little steps your players should be running to the left and to the right of the cone simulating blocking without ever actually running in front of the cone.

As they come towards the front of the cone players should use their outside hand to flash in front of the cone (as if blocking a ball). So if your player has run round the left of the cone they should use their right hand.

Work for 30 second periods and on the whistle drive to any other cone and start again.

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.

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.

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