Netball: The Three Musketeers

10 fun games and ideas to improve your warm up - Bring the WOW factor to your next practice and prepare your players, mentally and physically!

Refresh your players existing core netball skills, focusing on their speed and agility to be able to effectively outwit their opponent whilst demonstrating spatial awareness.

Ensure your team get their basic defence correct in order to build and develop their skills to secure to possession.

Don't let any of your players go alone in attack with this session, working on their attacking movement to become an option for their team-mates

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.

• The red players around the outside square have a ball each and move anti-clockwise around the box.
• 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.

This drill works best with the full squad (10+ players).

One feeder stands at the side of each third of the court (white in the diagram). These players are on the same side as the attacker (red 1 in the diagram).

There are 2 defenders in each third (blue in the diagram).

Using just half the width of the court, Red 1 has to work their way down the court receiving three passes from the player at the side of the court, in each third.

2 Balls starting with Player 1 and Player 4. The players then pass the balls diagnoally until the ball reaches an end. They then pass the ball straight to the person opposite them and continue the practice.