Year 8 - Physical education
Design set plays to overload the attack
Invasion games: tactics and strategies to outwit opponents in donor sports
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Unit Summary
This unit explores a wider range of tactics and strategies to include dispersal, penetration, support and screening in attack whilst defensive strategies of delay, compactness, depth, balance and control/ restraint can be applied in many sports with the ball in hand, at feet or on a stick.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to create a small sided game to explore set play tactics to outwit the opposition.
Key Notes
- Move: effectively using a screen requires a wide stance and sideways body position.
- Move: effective implementation of any attacking tactic requires correct technique for passing, dribbling and shooting.
- Think: knowing when to use attacking tactics, such as screening, can prevent a defender from getting to the ball holder.
- Feel: empathy enables us to understand the feelings of others and supports us to respond/behave appropriately.
- Connect: leadership requires an ability to listen and take on board everyone's ideas.
Vocabulary To Learn
- fast break: a quick attack towards goal in an attempt to score before the oppositions defence is set up
- outlet: a pass made from a defender to initiate a counterattack
- counter-attack: an attack made in response to one by the opposition
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Teams don't discuss tactics properly and instead focus on just wanting to play a game.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: effectively using a screen requires a wide stance and sideways body position. Move: effective implementation of any attacking tactic requires correct technique for passing, dribbling and shooting.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'fast break'
a quick attack towards goal in an attempt to score before the oppositions defence is set up.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Teams don't discuss tactics properly and instead focus on just wanting to play a game. Correction: Forming a number of predetermined plans can be an effective way to capitalise on set play situations and being aware of which team members are the biggest threat to the opposition can leave other players more open.
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