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Netball: Christmas Stocking Warm Up

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4 teams have a 'Christmas stocking' (box 2m x 2m) each and they each start with 4-5 objects that are 'presents' (spare shoes, coloured cones, bibs etc).

They learn which objects belong to their team and each team puts all their objects in a ball bin (or coned area) in the middle.

Play starts, only one person from each team can run forward to collect an object from the middle at each time.

The other players can steal presents from other teams, but they have to put it back in the box in the middle.

Teams can try to defend their stocking.

Teams are aiming to fill their stocking again with the presents they had originally.

COACHING POINTS

The coach can impose conditions on the game, such as you can only steal by sliding on your bum to the other teams' areas or you can only collect a present by piggyback.

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Carrying Cone Warm Up:

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.

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Ball Collection - Reflex test:

Both players move in the same direction with the feeder moving backwards.

The feeder must play the ball to any side of the receiving player, within arm's reach, for them to react to, collect and pass back as quickly as possible.

Players progress like this from one side of the court to the other, taking short fast steps, staying up on the balls of their feet.

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Numbers Game:

When the teacher calls out a series of players' numbers they should run onto the court.

The players' whose numbers have just been called then play using normal netball rules until a goal is scored.

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Cat and mouse:

1 player is a cat
1 player is a mouse
The other players lie (or stand) in lines (can have 2-4 groups depending on numbers)

The Cat tries to tag the Mouse.

If the Cat manages to tag the Mouse then they swap roles (she becomes the Mouse and the Mouse becomes the Cat).

The Mouse runs away and joins the end of a group "in the mouse hole" to be safe. When the Mouse joins the end of a line then the person at the other end of the line becomes the new Mouse to be chased by the Cat.

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