Year 9 - Physical education
Advanced defensive strategies and positional play
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies through handball
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Unit Summary
This unit explores ways to adapt skills, tactics and strategies and apply them with adherence to the rules of handball. Pupils will develop their resilience as they utilise the full rules and officiate their own games.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to adapt defensive strategies depending on the situation.
Key Notes
- Move: defenders stand tall and reach in towards the ball with one hand, whilst blocking a bounce pass with the other.
- Move: moving as a defensive unit helps to block the ball carrier's path to goal.
- Think: physical contact is part of the game, however you are not allowed to deliberately run into another player.
- Feel: when marking stronger players, or the right hand side where more attacks come, requires increased persistence.
- Connect: good communication from teammates helps with the decision making process when marking a player.
Vocabulary To Learn
- close marking: defending very close to assigned attackers to limit movement and options
- block: when a defending player uses their body/arms to stop or deflect a shot, or a pass made by an attacker, usually to prevent a goal
- shifting: move as a unit to cover spaces and close gaps as the ball moves
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think the only way to defend is to mark 1 player on the opposite team.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: defenders stand tall and reach in towards the ball with one hand, whilst blocking a bounce pass with the other. Move: moving as a defensive unit helps to block the ball carrier's path to goal.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'close marking'
defending very close to assigned attackers to limit movement and options.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think the only way to defend is to mark 1 player on the opposite team. Correction: Sometimes moving as a unit, where you shift together, can prevent any of the attackers from making a break and getting the ball up the court.
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