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Defensive Skills

This document outlines several defensive drills for touch football: 1. 1 on 1 drill focuses on individual defending techniques to prevent an attacker from scoring. Players rotate roles after each play. 2. Clap-clap drill has defenders spread along a score line trying to prevent attackers from crossing. Distances and numbers are progressed. 3. Rob the bank has teams of robbers and security guards. Robbers try to steal gold balls while evading guards, who aim to prevent movement with side to side movement. The drills provide progressions by increasing distances, numbers of players, and incorporating passing. Key techniques include effective movement, communication, and preventing forward progress of attackers.

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Defensive Skills

This document outlines several defensive drills for touch football: 1. 1 on 1 drill focuses on individual defending techniques to prevent an attacker from scoring. Players rotate roles after each play. 2. Clap-clap drill has defenders spread along a score line trying to prevent attackers from crossing. Distances and numbers are progressed. 3. Rob the bank has teams of robbers and security guards. Robbers try to steal gold balls while evading guards, who aim to prevent movement with side to side movement. The drills provide progressions by increasing distances, numbers of players, and incorporating passing. Key techniques include effective movement, communication, and preventing forward progress of attackers.

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Defensive Drills

1 on 1
- Students are split into two even teams per playing area of 10x5m – 15x10m
- Two cone are positioned half way along the side of the player area, with half the team
behind each cone
- The attacking player starts with the ball (orange), runs around the cone closest to them,
then switches direction to try and score a touchdown at the other end
- At the same time the defending player (green) runs around their cone and turns to face the
attacker and prevent them from getting a touchdown
- Focus should be on the defender using techniques to prevent the attacker from scoring
- Players rotate after a touchdown is scored or the defender
wins
Stage 1
Progression
- Increase playing area
- Have 2v2/ 2v1
- Include touches and roll balls
KTP
- Moving forward to meet the attacker
- Prevention of attacker to progress forward
- On toes, face movement

Clap – Clap
- Students are organised into two even groups, with one being the attackers and one being
the defenders
- The defenders spread themselves along the score-line, having to have both feet on the line
- The attackers position themselves 5 metres away from the score-line (use cones if needed)
- Defenders are only allowed to move laterally along the
score-line
- Attackers aim to get past the defenders and get two feet
over the score-line to score one point
- After this has been done for enough time, a ball can be
added so that attackers have to score a touchdown (placing
ball down over score-line) worth 5 points
- If a defender is touched by an attacker at any time, they are
to run 5m backwards (cones placed 5m behind score-line)
and can then come back to join the defence
- Students rotate through roles
Stage 2
Progression
- Increase distances
- Have different numbers in attacking and defending teams
- Include passing, touches and roll balls
KTP
- Effective movement along score-line
- Communication amongst defensive team
- Prevention of attacker to move forward

Rob the bank


- Students are organised into two even teams – one being the robbers and one the security
guards
- Robbers aim to get past the guards without being caught (touched) and get to the bank vault
and steal as much goal in 2 minutes
- Guards aim to stop the robbers from getting into the bank by making a touch and sending
them to prison
- Guards can only move sideways, and robbers have to go through bank doors on the way to
the vault (don’t have to when running back to ‘van’)
- Balls are used as gold, with robbers trying to get past guards and retrieve balls, and guards
aiming to use defensive techniques to prevent movement of robbers
- After 2 minutes, students switch roles
Stage 2/3
Progression
- Increase distances and number of students on field
- Allow defenders to move forward and/or backwards
as well as laterally
- Change to scoring a touchdown rather than just
collecting balls
KTP
- Effective movement sideways to block attackers
- Communication between defensive team
- Effectively preventing attacking team moving forward
- Awareness of space and positioning

3 on 2
- Students are organised into teams of 5, with 3 Attackers, and 2 defenders. They are then all
positioned on a corner cone of the area (20x12m)
- On the whistle the attacking team (green) run up around the top cone (X) spread out and
attack back towards the score-line (orange).
- The defensive team run to the middle of their defensive line, they need to be held here until
the attackers are in position to attack, having to do 5 star jumps before they can start
defending
- The attackers then try to score a touchdown in the 3-on-2 situation.
- Include a 3-touch situation, allowing attackers three touches before they can score. If
touched, players must perform a roll ball to start play again
- Once a touchdown is scored, players switch roles
Stage 3/4
Progression
- Increase playing distance
- Include more numbers in each group
- Encourage attackers to use switches and wraps
KTP
- Effective prevention of attacker movement forward
- Initiating the touch on attackers
- Communication and awareness of positioning

(Touch football Victoria, n.d: Austouch, n.d)

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