Netball Practices and Training: A Practical Guide For Players and Coaches

NETBALL PRACTICES AND TRAINING offers a comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making. Ensuring a player is equipped with the technical and tactical skills should not be the only focus of a coach, and by integrating practices that incorporate decision-making, a coach is successfully preparing a player for the demands of competition. The book outlines a range of practices for integrating game principles, skills and tactics for all units of the court. The book includes: ?180 practices with progressions for decision training ?sections addressing warm-up activities, movement skills, attack, defence and shooting ?a section showing how a coach can integrate sport psychology into their practices ?information boxes containing key points; detailed analyses of the movement and individual skills in netball ?reviews of the tactical aspects and game principles in attack and defence ?supporting information on differentiating a practice for players of different levels of ability AUTHOR: Anita Navin is a highly experienced coach and coach educator. She is currently Director of Student Affairs in the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. Anita has been involved with England Netball for over twenty-five years as a player, coach, tutor, technical writer, scout and as a member of the board of directors. She has coached at international level with the Northern Ireland Netball Assocation and is involved in the England Netball Home Training Programme for under-nineteen international players. ILLUSTRATIONS: 20 colour photographs o80 diagrams