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Footwork Drills

The footwork drills and videos below will ensure your players don't give away free passes when catching, lunging, landing, pivoting, and passing. Foo...

Defence Drills

There are three stages of Defence in netball: Shadowing - Being on your toes, ready to pounce 2. Pressure (3 ft) - Make things difficult for the opp...

Holding Your Defence

category: Shooting

Set up: Split players into groups of at least 7 with 1 ball using the goal third. Number 1 starts with the ball. The Drill: Player 1 passes the ball...

Follow The Ball

category: Defence

Players stand in pairs, with the worker standing behind the ball holding player. Depending on where the ball holding player holds the ball the worker ...

Popping Over

category: Shooting

Blue shooter (Blue 1) has the ball inside the circle.Pretend to shoot, with white 1 defending, instead of the shot, blue 1 pops the ball over the defe...

Feint Shot In To A Pass

category: Shooting

Blue number 1 dummies a shot and passes the ball to number 2.   Number 1 runs across towards the goal, to receive the return pass and shoots....

Holding Space

category: Getting-free

Players work in 4s, with 1 ball. GS and GK work in the middle with a feeder either side. The GS in the middle positions herself on the opposite side t...

3 V 2 With Gs Blocking

category: Getting-free

In this exercise look at how the GS is blocking the GK in the circle from moving to wards the side the 2nd pass is thrown (right to left). By the GS t...

Shooting Technique

category: Shooting

Working on their own each player has a ball and takes it in turn to work on their shooting technique. Stood about a metre from the net players should ...

Shooting - Group Practice

category: Shooting

Player 3 starts with the ball and passes the ball to Player 2 before running around behind player 2 in to the circle. Player 2 then passes the ball t...

Goal Attack

category: Roles-responsibilities

Where can they go? They are allowed to move in the centre and attacking third including the circle.

Shooting

category: Shooting

The shooter has 10 shots from under the post while the rebounder has to defend each shot and then collect the rebound. Players should then change role...

Norma plummer's netball drills -- defence

Norma Plummer, one of the world's best netball coaches gives tips on defensive skills and how you can't smoke if you're serious about your sport. Make...

Netball coaching tip - defensive blocking

Lisa Alexander guides defensive netballers through blocking -- holding the offensive player away from the circle edge. For more Coaching Tips and advi...

Netball coaching for defence on circle edge

Extract 4 from DVD 3 of the set - Jill McIntosh presents Coaching for Excellence. Available from www.bestcoach.co.za.

How do you defend a shooter who holds space?