Self-Analysis: Netball

Activity: Netball
Name of player: Tara Johnson (self-analysis)
Position: Centre Identify the important skills and techniques needed for a participant in her position: Netball centres need a wide range of skills and techniques in order to carry out there position responsibility efficiently and accurately. One thing centres vitally need is good cardiovascular fitness. They need this as centres are constantly running up and down the court throughout an entire match as they both defend and attack in each of the court segments. They are also dodging a lot and therefore in order to continue with a lot of movement for quite a long period of time they need to get oxygen to muscles quickly and continuously for a whole match meaning they need a
Agility is needed in order to dodge opposition players and get into space in order to receive a good ball. It is also needed so they can change direction quickly if the ball gets intercepted so they can quickly switch roles and begin to defend rather than attack and visa versa. Power is a basic necessity for a centre as passing either a long or fast ball requires this. For example, if your team players can not dodge around the opposition you need to send it over head, especially around the shooting circle, this requires accurate power. Finally, speed is essential to a centre player. Without speed a centre would find it difficult to get into good space and become free meaning interception would become easy to the opposition player. With good speed it is easy to get into space away from the defending centre. Speed is also essential for a centre as they often need to get from one end of the court to the other very quickly if an interception takes place. Speed mixed with agility is a lot of what netball is about as getting free and receiving a clean ball to get it down the court quickly is the aim of the
To help your team as much as possible you must be the best you can at your position in order to win back the possession of the ball and to help your team win the match. I have reviewed my personal weaknesses as centre position and have come up with some training methods to address and improve these weaknesses efficiently. I thought that using just one or two methods would get boring and mean I would lose interest, so I am going to use four training methods to ensure I continue and stick to the six week training plan and to make sure I improve in all the areas I need to as best I can. I am also going to do the training methods on the same days each week so i have the same gap between each training method every week. I will look for progression in both of my weaknesses over the next six weeks so I can see if I am improve, and if so, how much I improve