Netball: Islands

Limit the opponent?s options in attack with this defensive session, improving your team?s ability to intercept and apply pressure to the ball carrier

Designated players (catchers) attempt to tag other players.

Once tagged players must stand still.

Tagged players may only be released by catching a ball.

2 groups of 4 with one ball in each group standing in two interlocking squares.

The idea of the practice is that the ball starts on opposite sides and both teams pass the ball in the same direction around their square.

The teams are competing to pass the ball around their team the quickest and overtake the ball from the other group.

Two equal teams

The team on the outside have to run a relay around the outside of all the cones (each player runs around once).

Meanwhile the players in the middle have to pass the ball around the smaller square and see how many times they can pass the ball around their square in the time it takes the other team to all round the outside.

Swap teams.

Each team has a King (player) standing on their bench.

The aim of the game is to get all your team's players (Kings) onto their bench.

To become a King, the players on the same team must successfully pass the ball between themselves to their existing Kings, abiding by the rules of netball, and the king must catch the ball without falling off the bench!