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.

A comprehensive guide to planning netball training sessions with an emphasis on decision-making, that will provide a key resource for all netball coaches and teams.

Includes 180 practices with progressions for decision training and gives details on warm-up activities, movement skills, attack, defence and shooting.

Superbly illustrated with 20 colour photographs and 180 diagrams.

Anita Navin is a highly experienced coach and coach educator has been involved with England Netball for over twenty five years.