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Rounders: Batting Technique

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Players work in fours with one batter, one bowler and two fielders.

The basic structure of this drill is that the ball is bowled to the batter who has to try and hit the ball.

To improve hand-eye coordination there are 3 stages to this drill.

Firstly the batting player should hit the ball with their hand (or yellow hand CP where available), then with a paddle bat and lastly a rounders bat.

COACHING POINTS

Stage one: Stepping into the bowled ball and then using their hand to gently bat the ball to one of the fielding players.

Stage two: Repeat using a small tennis racket or paddle bat.

Stage three: Repeat using a rounders bat.

The batter should stand side ways on, with the bat back ready to swing at the ball.

Players' weight should be on their back foot, ready to transfer onto their front foot when they swing at the ball.

As players step they should remember to follow through.

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The batter gets several balls feed them to practice hitting.

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Divide players into two teams, one fielding and one batting.

The fielding team bowls 4 consecutive balls to a better. Once the batter has hit all 4 balls into the field, all of the batters on the batting team must run around all the bases at the same time, as many times as they can before all of the balls have been returned by the fielding team.

The next batter then does the same, and all of the batters run when all 4 balls have been hit. Do this for each batter on the batting team, before the fielding team goes in to bat.

Winner is the team with the most rounders scored.

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Split the group into teams of 5. One team throwing the ball around posts.

One team running around the posts.

The ball starts by the batting square and has to be thrown to post one then 2 then 3 then 4 then back to the batting square.

The running team have to run and tag.

The first player in the batting square has to run to tag 1st post player this player has to run to release the player at 2nd post etc until the player on the forth post is tagged and runs back to the batting square.

Start again when ball and players are back in position again.

Best of 5 runs.

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