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IN NEED OF AVDICE, girls bored at netball training

Our girls have recently become unmotivated and bored with netball, i want to make training tonight fun and exciting, does anyone have any ideas of what we can do. Drills and or bonding excersies? xx

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Hi Kitty,

I love this drill! Remove the christmas theme and I think your girls will enjoy it too!

Let me know your thoughts,

Tara

Christmas Stocking Warm Up

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4 teams have a 'Christmas stocking' (box 2m x 2m) each and they each start with 4-5 objects that are 'presents' (spare shoes, coloured cones, bibs etc). They learn which objects belong to their team and each team puts all their objects in a ball bin (or coned area) in the middle. Play starts, only one person from each team can run forward to collect an object from the middle at each time. The other players can steal presents from other teams, but they have to put it back in the box in the middle. Teams can try to defend their stocking. Teams are aiming to fill their stocking again with the presents they had originally.

Christmas Stocking Warm Up

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Make sure your training session has a flow to it so the girls don`t have time to get bored. I`ve found that if I make things up as I go along or if I have to work out the drill or game during training, the girls tend to get bored just standing around. Also alternate drills with fun games. The one Tara mentioned above is a favourite with us too and this website has plenty of examples of other fun games. Something I haven`t tried, but I think might be fun is to use music in the warm up session. Good luck!

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