Catching Drills
High Catching Skills
Skills: High catching, ball overhead, running catches.
Set-up: You need a set of stumps, a bat and a ball. Or a tennis racquet and tennis
ball
depending on age/skill level
of players. (and hitting skills of the coach!)
Activity: Coach starts next to the stumps, and w/k is on the stumps ready to take
return throw.
Player starts next to the
stumps as well. Coach hits the ball high in
the air, and only when the
ball
is struck can the player run from their starting
position to try to get under the high catch.
Once
they’ve made the catch, they
throw the ball back over the stumps.
Variations
Pairs: With a slightly larger group of players, send them out in pairs. Both have
to start at the
same
time, one calls
the catch and when they’ve taken it, pass it to
their partner to throw back
to keeper.
Encourage thrower to be within
2m of the
catcher when the catch is taken.
Blind Catch: Set-up with both players facing away from the way they are going
to run. They are
only allowed to turn
and look for the ball once they’ve heard the
ball on the bat! One.catches,
and
one throws back.
Fitness Catching: Not for the faint-hearted.
Set a challenge of a number of
catches,
e.g. 8
per pair.
The first player catches the first half
with their partner
throwing back
to the keeper,
and vice-versa
for the second half. Coach tries to
time it so that the players have to run and catch
each one, and the
partner has
to be within 2m of each
catch. It’s harder than it sounds!
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