Netball: Footwork Warm Up

Develop your player's defensive movement, in order to intercept the ball or force errors to secure the win.

Get your players turning in the air and developing this attacking principle, giving them the advantage on court!

Jogging and footwork patterns.

Players jog around the court, preforming different footwork patterns along different sides can be any lines on the court, players do not have to run around the perimeter).

With older players allow the player at the front of the line to lead, the other players must follow their example. Regularly change the player at the front of the line.

Two lines stand about 5 meters apart with another two lines stood perpendicular so that players are stood in an 'x' formation.

As one player runs out without the ball they receive a pass from directly in front of them.

They must immediately pass the ball to the player on their left and then run to the back of the line opposite their starting line.

One team runs clockwise round the inside of the circle with the other team running anti-clockwise around the outside of the circle.

In this example the defenders are red, and the attackers are red.

When the coach shouts 'Jailbreak' the players inside the inner circle try to 'escape' to outside the 10m x 10m square (yellow cones).

The inside team scores a point for each 'jailbreaker' - swap over. If you have an odd number of players give the defenders the extra man.

Players start inside the safe house (the white area).

On the coach's call players must sprint around the entire perimeter of the court, they can only stop running once they are back inside the safe house.

Players are given 10 seconds resting time (increase resting time with younger players) before having to repeat the run.