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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.

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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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Cone Twist:

Split your players into two teams and place 20 cones in the centre third (half upside-down and the other half the right way up).

Team A's challenge is to turn all the cones the correct way up and team B's challenge is to turn all the cones upside down.

Time limit 30 seconds.

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