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Netball: Channels to Feed the Circle

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Set up: Shooting circle, 4-7 players, 1 ball, cones.

Divide three channels across the court (you can refer to these as channel 1, 2 or 3 or first, second, economy class).
Use cones to determine channels for players that are learning the areas.
One channel in front of center transverse line (center pass area).
Another channel between transverse line and top of circle.
Final channel is from top of the circle to baseline (shooting area).
Center feeder to pass ball to first attacker who will drive from WA position to middle of the first channel.
Attacker to turn and pass to second receiver who will drive circle edge and pass the ball into the shooter.
Shooter to shoot.

COACHING POINTS

Ball is to continue travelling from center pass into feeders.
The ball is to make it to the circle edge. Attackers need to work a strong cut and drive.
If players are on the circle edge too early they are to drive off to drive back on.

Common errors:
Attackers drive to the same area – defenders are good at forcing attackers to use different driving points. Encourage defenders to keep eyes up and stay side on to force errors, ideally pushing attackers to the outer court edge.

PROGRESSION

Circle defence added.
Center pass feeder skips first channel and passes to second channel. Initial first attacker (who did not receive the pass) is to drive circle edge to follow up the first pass and feed into the shooter.
Defenders added into midcourt channels.

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Body Angles- 5 Points:

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Players set up like five points on a die- these are the feeders.
Workers start in the middle facing out to one of the feeders who has the ball.
Worker recieves a pass in the middle and passes back. They then drive on an angle towards the the far point on the same side as the ball ensuring they can see the ball and body angle is indicating where they would like the ball. Feeder sends a long pass to the point the worker is heading to.
Worker then passes a long pass to the far diagonal feeder. They then front cut the middle point to receive another pass on the drive and pass back to the feeder.
Once again they turn body angle to see the ball as well as indicate where they are heading and drive to the last far point on the die and receive a long pass from the feeder.
Repeting again, the long diagonal pass and front cut for the pass in the middle.
Roatate players after player makes a few successful run-throughs.

Movement

McD's- Midcourt driving options into shooter.:

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Set up: Goal third, 1 ball, 1 passer, 2 midcourt, 1 shooter, 2-3 defence.

Ball starts with passer behind transverse line.
Both midcourt players drive from the transverse line to circle edge then back off again (creating the âMâ).
Passer delivers ball to one of the midcourt players off the circle who then delivers the second ball to the other midcourt plyer on the circle edge. Option: Passer candeliver directly to shooter who may choose to come out of the circle. Shooter then is to deliver a pass to a midcourter and get into position.
Ball delivered to shooter, who puts the shot up.

Movement

Zig Zag- Finding Space and Changing Direction:

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Set up: Half court, 3 stationary feeders, 3 balls, 1 attacker, 1-3 defence.

Feeders are placed in an extended triangle formation. Each feeder has a ball.
Attacker drives out from transverse line to first feeder where a pass is received, attacker returns pass and moves around the feeder.
Attacker does so with the other two feeders in the extended triangle formation creating a 'zig zag'.
Attacker works her way through the 'zig zag' in both directions without errors.

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