Netball: Rats and Rabbits

Develop your players existing defensive skills and reinforce the key defending principles of denying space and limiting attacking options to force an error to gain possession of the ball.

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

Maintain possession, take control of the game and carve out chance after chance!

Develop your players’ defending skills with this Stage 1 Defence session, ready to take on the opposition!

In a designated area, using lines or cones, the white team must attempt to dodge past each defending player.

Defending players can only use sideways movements in order to prevent this.

To be played in groups of 8.

2 defenders stand in each section of the court.

2 attackers work their way down the court passing the ball between them. They must make a given number of passes in each third before progressing to the next third.

Defenders must stay within their own third.

Progression
You could put 3 defenders in each third.

Players 1, 2 and 3 all hold the hips of the player in front of them. The defender (Green Player) tries to tag the back of one of the other nominated players (in this case player 3).

• Split your players into two equal teams and put down an equal number of cones in each final third.
• The two teams compete against one another, trying to take cones/bibs from their opponents area and place them behind their line.