To ensure the ball is being fed to your players in the shooting circle we begin with a fun warm-up game of netball tag to get your players passing and moving from the word "Go".
From this point it's then time to think about progressing the ball up the court, to get this across to your team they'll need to pass 10 times before being allowed to shoot, but the Goal Shooter and Goal Shooter will need to stay on opposite sides of the circle to ensure they're offering two different passing options.
Don't let the Shooting circle go hungry!
in more ways than one
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in more ways than one
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