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Netball: Passing and Cutting Through Court

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DESCRIPTION

Set up:
2 balls
4 corners in partners

Partners drive out together. One to receive a pass (attacker A) from feeder in opposite line and one to anticipate defending the oncoming attacker from diagonal side.
Feeder (from opposite line) delivers ball to either one of the drivers who then becomes the attacker.
Attacker A delivers ball to opposite attacker who has driven from the diagonal side.
Attacker A to drive and cut through court to receive the ball from diagonal opposite feeder.
Defensive partner to defend oncoming space/person.
Attacker to receive the ball in front of defender.
Ball returns back to line. Workers to return to line.

COACHING POINTS

Players practice gaining peripheral vision through court, they practice being spatially aware and develop skills around timing a pass and cut.
Ensure both pairs are timing their movement - this will ensure the attackers are crossing at the same time and allowing the defence to pick them up
Get your defenders to be aware of their body angle when the attacker is running through. The defender will want to position their body to keep the attacker away from the ball and force them up court (so the ball is effectively going backwards). This will help stimulate a real game situation as you do not want the attack to gain ground down court

Common errors:
Ball to stay in same half of court – only players will change ends. Make sure players vary up
if they are attacking or defending. It is chaotic, players to take initiative to drive out and call
for pass or pick up defensive position. There is no specific location for attackers to receive
the ball.
Players may struggle to find space through court and find it difficult to judge timing and
getting on front of players. Players need to deliberately pass and cut successfully in order to
execute this drill.
Defence can learn to work balancing the court across the space – focus on body angles i.e
not staying flat but defending space rather than man on man ‘try for the fly’.

PROGRESSION

Keep defenders and attackers set i.e. game day positions attackers and defenders.
Defenders to defend both passes i.e. from feeder and attacker.
Use coned channels or areas for attackers and/or defenders to receive the pass.

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Pass and Cut- Shelley Special

Set up:

4 corners set up
2 feeders (static and with a ball each)

Two players work together and drive out from opposite lines on the same half.
Players straight drive to meet in the middle and touch (high 5).
Both players then V cut towards direction of the feeder.
Feeder delivers the ball to any one of the drivers.
The driver who does not receive the ball becomes the attacker.
The attacker must react and cross cut through court to receive a long pass in the opposite side of the court from the partner they have been working with who received the ball.
Attacker to then return ball to the feeder on the opposite side to where they started.

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In Front and Behind

Using one third, set up 4 feeders along the third line and split the third in half using cones
Create two lines - one line of attackers and one line of defenders
The attacker must get the ball in front of the line of cones (1) and then behind the line of cones (1) from the same feeder - therefore each attacker will receive 8 balls, 2 from each feeder
If the defender intercepts the ball is simply passed to the next feeder and the practice continues
Once each person has attacked and defended twice you can switch the feeders out

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Train Your Brain

*AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON*

Set up in 2 lines facing each other. 2 working players out of the lines back to back facing the line they have come from and with a ball each.
Working players pass back to their lines then run behind the front player in the line (one with the ball).
They are then to drive on a digonal to the middle of the 2 lines and receive a pass.
Working players are now facing each other with a ball each and pass with left hands to each other receiving the opposite ball.
Players then pass a high ball to their right (the line they have come from) and drive to the left (other players line) to intercept the other ball before it reaches the line.
Players to join the back of the line and a new working pair to start in the middle.

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Red players must make a pass inside to the blue players when they are on a corner and receive the return pass when they reach the half way point down the line.
They then play another one-two pass receiving the return pass on the corner of the square.

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