Activities · practice · 10 min

Look before you catch

ToolReceivingperception

Cue

Look, catch, go.

Principle
A decision starts before the catch.

Set-up

Threes: passer, receiver, and a defender behind the receiver who shows one or two fingers or a side.

Rules

The receiver looks over the shoulder before the ball arrives and chooses on the catch: one finger = shot, two = drive, side = drive that way. Then live.

Where this fits

Period P3 · Game & tactics

Cells P3 · layer 0 P3 · layer 1 P3 · layer 2 P3 · layer 3

Solves Awareness Order

By layer

Layer 0Aware	Colour game: the coach calls a colour, the player runs to that cone and catches there.
Layer 1Control	Look and choose on a sign.
Layer 2Shape your own	Read the closeout before the ball arrives.
Layer 3Shape others	Include the help defender in the choice.

How do you coach it?

Player-centred: variation, questions and room to find a solution.

A real choice for the playerautonomy
Variation: angle, distance, defender, timecompetence
Questions instead of answers ("what did you see?")autonomy
Everyone can succeed; a challenge just above their levelcompetence
Partners rotaterelatedness

Precise correction of form is not the criterion here.

Works on

Getting information before the ball arrives; deciding on the catch

Easier

The defender shows the sign longer.

Harder

The defender really closes out and the receiver reads the body.

Question to observe

Does the player look before the catch, or after?