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Rounders: Beat the ball

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For this practice you need 8 players per group. Set out 4 cone in a square about 5 metres apart. Set out 2 flags a further 5 - 10 metres away from the square . and finally a finishing post. The race is for the runner to beat the ball being thrown via every gold player to the finishing post.

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The skill of the practice is to position the 2 flags around which the fir=elders have to throw the ball just far enough away for the runners to have a chance of beating the fielders to the post.

and vice versa if you want the runner to win positioning the posts a bit further away so it takes the fielders a bit longer to get the ball round to the finishing post.

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Ground Fielding:

Long barrier Team A must roll the ball past team B to score a point (goal) and vice versa.

Ground Fielding

4 ball rounders:

1 player hits 4 balls anywhere into the field.

Once the batter has hit all the balls they run around all 4 posts as many times as possible, before the fielders get all the balls back into the square.

Ground Fielding

Ground Fielding:

Fielder 1 feeds from an angle, fielder 2 runs in and flicks at player 1 moving to the post. Player 1 touches the post with the ball.

The batter is either in or out.

When 3 lives are used up the team is out, then batters change with fielders.

Ground Fielding

Ball drop and pick up:

Players work in groups of 5, in a grid with 5 cones set up in a zig-zag formation, roughly 7 metres apart.

Each player stands on a cone. All players, except for those queueing behind the first cone require balls.

On the coach's call player 1, on the first cone, aims to get to collect the ball that has been dropped from shoulder height by the player on the cone in front of them, before the ball bounces twice.

This is one pick-up.

Player 1 then gives the ball back to the player on the cone, and sets themself before the coach gives the next call.

Again the working player aims to get to the next ball before second bounce.

This process is repeated until all players have performed 4 pick-ups.

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