Pippies are doing so well

Ok I havent updated about the Pippies.........

for a little while so for everyone wanting to know how they are doing, here it is!
The team has continued to improve thanks to all the work that their coach has put in. She hasnt made the error of trying to get them to learn to much to quickly and only adds one or two new skills each training. All the girls then get to work hard on the skill and actually learn and understand it. We consentrated on the stepping rule this week, and the girls have done really well with it. They look like little netball players when they catch the ball now!

Stepping is a hard rule for netta players to understand and actually use in a game. As you can imagine, you don't get taught to stop when you catch a ball! They have also been working very hard on defending from infront of the player. Another words keeping the player behind you (still facing the forward) and shadowing their moves so it is hard for the attacking player to get free. Once again this is hard for Netta players to pick up, and use consistantly as they need to use their parifial vision. Also young Netta players tend to raise there arms when defending from the front so that they can stop the attacking player from driving forward. As we know you are not aloud to have your arms up, so that is also another skill that needs to be learnt and mastered when defending from infront of your player. They have done very well at keeping their arms down.

We are still working at letting the ball go quicker when attacking, I think that when they have mastered that skill we will look like a completely different team out there on the court. We got a glimpse of this on saturday when the girls put an excellent passage of attacking play together and then finished it off with a goal. All the attacking moves were quick and sharp and all players actually let the ball go quickly so that the other teams defence didnt get time to set up and intercept the passes.

We even scored 2 goals in one of our games! That is the first time so a big congats to the Pippies. As I have said they continue to improve and they are really enjoying playing the game of Netta.
Our fastest improver at the moment would be Katie. I can see a real little defender in her already. She was such a gentle timid little thing at the start (she is still very gentle thankfully!) but she is really starting to show her true potential. Like I was telling her mum she is technically aggressive not physically, which is what you are looking for at this stage of development. Great work Katie!