Ball skills with Anton

Large Ball Skills - Ball Control

On Wednesday, Ruma Piwakawaka had a session with Anton (from Sport Waikato) learning all about large ball skills.

We were learning how to bounce a large ball correctly and keep control of the bouncing ball beside our hips.

We played 'traffic lights', where we had to dribble the ball while trying not to crash into other players. We had to stop when Anton called 'RED', and go when Anton called 'GREEN', and bounce the ball on the spot 5 times when Anton called 'ORANGE".

Then we played 'Shark, Ship, Shore'.  We had to dribble our ball to the called position without the shark getting us.

As well as having super fun, we learnt that to bounce a ball we have to:

-spread our fingers out

-curve our hand

-move our wrist

We are looking forward to our next session on Ball Skills!!