Pass and Catch Three Contacts
Tactical Problem: Understand concept of three contacts.
Skill development: Refining overhead and forearm pass.
Teaching Points:

Tactic

  • communicate with teammates (call the ball)
  • passing the ball to the appropriate position (target or hitter)
  • adjusting body position to ball being tossed
Skill
  • squaring to the target
  • forearm pass
    • knees bent
    • flat platform
    • shoulders facing target 
Diagram of 'pass and catch three hits'
Organizational Points: 
With your partner from the previous drill find another pair and form a group of four.  Number yourselves one through four.  Number one take one ball and put it away.  Number two take the other ball and the rest of your team and find an empty quarter of a badminton court.

Rules:

  • You must follow the proper passing order:
    • feeder to passer (1 or 2) to target to feeder
  • Feeder must toss the ball underhand
  • You must call the ball before making contact (MINE!)

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 Questions:
Why should we try to achieve three hits instead of putting the ball over the net right away?
     Because that way we will be able to get an attack eventually.
Why is calling the ball important?
     So no one runs into each other and gets hurt.
     So that the ball doesn't just hit the floor without anybody going for it.

Simplifications:
All contacts are a toss and catch.  (passers catch the ball from the feeders and toss to the setter, who then tosses back to the feeder).

Extensions:
First contact is a forearm pass to the setter.  Setter then catches the ball 'on their forehead' and pushes it to the feeder.

First contact is a forearm pass to the setter.  Setter sets the ball to the tosser.

With very advanced students the tosser can hit a downball instead of catching the set and underhand tossing.

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