Netball: Reward the Defence

Players will be focusing on forcing the error and making that all important interception to turn over the ball to increase their teams success on goal.

Develop your player's ability to have a strong, dominant and decisive body position to deny and close down space for their opponent up and down the court.

Develop your teams defensive capabilities by encouraging tight marking to limit the ball carriers passing options and to create the interception.

This session looks at developing your players defending skills focusing on how to effectively limit the space for the shooters in the circle, remaining ball side to gain possession of the ball.

Players run in pairs along the length of the court.

The defender runs alongside the attacker, trying to keep the attacker on the outside edges of the channel by turning their body as the attacker jogs/ changes direction.

Do this four times and then swap roles.

Players work in groups of 5 - 3 passing players on the outside of the triangle, one attacking player in the middle and one defender who is marking the central player.

The defender has to prevent the attacker from getting free to receive a pass from the outside players.

Player 4 marks player 3 while aiming to intercept the pass between the two blue players (feeders).

If Player 4 makes their move too soon the feeders should try to play the ball over the defender's head to player 3.

2 Players facing each other.

The idea is that each player has to try and touch the calves of their partners and at the same time ensure that they do not get caught.