Passing Refinement

Tactical Problem:  Setting up to attack

Skill development: Accurate forearm passing to a target

Teaching Points
Tactic
  • Return to base position
  • Get behind ball/square to target
  • Anticipate direction of freeball
Skill
  • Ready position, feet shoulder width, on toes, head up
  • Forearm pass
  • Arms form platform
  • Use legs to generate force, not arms
  • Square to target
  • Lateral, front and back movements

Diagram 4

Passing Refinement

Organizational Points
  • Put students into threes
  • Put students on a half court
  • One setter, one tosser, one passer
  • Initiate with a free ball (underhand toss)
  • Tosser tosses to passer
  • Make the passer move a little
  • Passer attempts pass to setter
  • Setter catches and gives the ball to tosser
  • Repeat
  • After five good passes (within a step of the setter) rotate
Questions

       Q.  How do you get the ball to the setter?
       A.  Square to the target. Get behind the ball.