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Fielding Drills

Warming up your catching muscles

We continue our presentation of Steve Rixon’s drills. This week, a good warm up drill – throwing a Vortex!

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Catching and fine focus

Fielding positions

A good drill for fielders to practise their catching and their fine focus

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Warming up and catching

A good drill for warming up, and practicing catching technique.

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Catching in pairs

A great drill for practicing your hand-eye co-ordination and your catching technique.

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Slips catching

Re-produce the feeling of a slips catch by one person taking a bat and holding the bat out in front of themselves and throwing the ball onto the bat and letting it skip of the face of the bat and towards your teammate who would be about 3-4 metres away.

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Out field catching

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For the players to develop and pratise the skills needed to successfully take outfield catches.

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Throwing Technique

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For players to practise the correct throwing technique.

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Close catching basics

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For players to focus on their close catching technique, including stance, and catching position of their hands.

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Using a Slips Cradle

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OBJECTIVES For the fielders to practise good slips catching techniques. For the fielders to practise and develop good hand-eye co-ordination. For a slips cordon to gain familiarity with each other and determine a good working relationship. For the fielders to practise target throwing skills.

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Slips reflex catching

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This drill will enable players to use and develop their reflexes for catching the ball.

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