Netball: Interception Triangle

Develop your players' defending capabilities by breaking down an interception into different elements.

• Get into 4's with 1 ball 
• 3 players will create a triangle shape and will each be a feeder 
• One feeder will start with the ball (in the example, the player at the top of the triangle) 
• The worker will receive 3 balls from each post:
  1) The feeder will simple drop the ball, the worker will need to drive forward to collect the ball and pass it back to the feeder 
  2) The second ball will be over the workers head - so the worker will drive back on an angle towards one of the spare feeders and intercept the pass. The ball will then be passed back back to the feeder 
  3) For the final ball the spare feeder (who the worker did not drive towards) will enter the triangle. The worker will need to cut across and intercept the pass 
• Once the worker has recieved all 3 balls from that post they will move onto the next post and do the same 3 balls 
• Once all 3 posts have been used (so the worker has recieved 9 balls) they can switch out

Two defenders work inside a circle of players with one ball.

The red players must pass the ball around the group and try to keep possession.

The two defending players must work together to mark the ball, keeping the 3ft distance, while the other defenders 'zones' the space.

So, if Red 1 receives the ball, Green 1 (the nearest defender) calls "ball" and goes to cover the ball and Green 2 moves back, calls "hole" and zones the area.

Get your players into two teams of 4/5/6, one team wears bibs.

The aim of the game is to get as many clean intercpetions as possible within the third over 60 seconds. You count how many clean intercepts each team can get when they are defending over the course of the 60 seconds.

Once a player intercepts the ball they must put the ball down on the ground for the attacking team to pick up and keep going.

Change over teams once the 60 seconds are over (attackers become defenders and vice versa) and see which team can get the most interceptions.

Player 1 has the ball. The middle player takes two steps forward to receive a high ball from player 1. He feeds the ball back to player 1 and then moves to the line as player 1 passes to player 2. The middle player moves back to intercept a pass from player 2 to player 1.