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Netball: Crab Relay Race

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A fun flexibility drill, with an element of competition to get teams moving.

Players are on their hands and feet, with their stomachs facing the sky.

In two teams players race in this crab position around a cone and back - scurrying along as fast as possible!

Which team will get all their crabs around the cone and back first?

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Variation:

If you have an indoor ball at hand why not play a quick game of crab football - it's a lot harder than it looks!

Players must try to score through by kicking the ball through their opponents goal.

Play first to two goals wins.

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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.

Warm ups

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.

Warm ups

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.

Warm ups

Bulldog:

Setup:

Choose 1 player to be the catcher - they start standing on the line between 2 thirds, wearing a bib.

All other players start spread along the goal line facing the catcher.

Game:

The aim is for all the other players to run and get past the catcher into the end zone without being caught - the last player still active is the winner.

The catcher must try and catch as many players as possible before they reach the end zone.

Rules:

If a player is caught by the catcher they then become a catcher and start this role on the line for the next run back.

Players must not go outside of the blue coned area.

Once a player has reached the end zone line they must wait there until the coach signals they may try to run back once all players have attempted to run across.

Players can only wait a maximum of 5 seconds after the coach signals they can run from the end zone line - if they do not move after this time they automatically become a catcher.

Warm ups

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