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Tactics in net and striking games

Net games like badminton and volleyball, and striking/fielding games like cricket and rounders, need very different tactics from invasion games, because the two teams don't share the same space.

Part of your national curriculum
  • Technique and performance: Use and develop a variety of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in invasion, net and striking and fielding games

Lesson overview

What you'll learn in this lesson

Use and develop a variety of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in invasion, net and striking and fielding games

Key learning points

  • • Net games: placement over power
  • • Striking and fielding: field placement
  • • Adapting tactics mid-game

This lesson at a glance

  • 20 minutes
  • 14 parts to scroll through
  • 3 quick checks
  • Marked quiz at the end
  • Gentle pace: short sittings with pauses

Words to know

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Tactics in net and striking games

An English teaching video on this topic from Joey Feith. Watch it, then scroll down for the lesson.

In a nutshell

Use and develop a variety of tactics and strategies to overcome opponents in invasion, net and striking and fielding games

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 1 of 2

Part 1 · Net games: placement over power

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Net games: placement over power

In games like badminton or tennis, placing a shot into open space or to an opponent's weaker side often wins more points than simply hitting the shuttle or ball as hard as possible. Moving an opponent around the court to force them out of position, then hitting the shot they can least reach, is a core net-game tactic.

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Striking and fielding: field placement

In cricket or rounders, fielding captains position players based on where a batter tends to hit the ball and the type of bowling being used, aiming to cover the most likely scoring areas without leaving big gaps. Batters, in turn, look for gaps in the field rather than just hitting the ball hard.

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Quick check

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Quick check

In net games like badminton, what is often more effective than power?

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Reset break

Part 6 of 14

Pause

That's sitting 1 of 2 done

Stretch, get a drink, look out of the window. There is no timer and nothing is counting down — your place is saved, so you can come back in five minutes or tomorrow.

Stop here for now
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Quick check

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Quick check

In cricket, why might a fielding captain move players around?

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Learning cycle

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Learning cycle 2 of 2

Part 2 · Adapting tactics mid-game

A short piece of teaching, then a check to make sure it has landed.

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Explore the idea

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Adapting tactics mid-game

Good players and teams adjust their tactics based on what is and isn't working — for example, a badminton player who keeps losing points to drop shots might start standing slightly further forward. Being locked into a single tactic regardless of the score or opponent is one of the most common mistakes in game-based sport.

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Quick check

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Quick check

Why is it a mistake to stick rigidly to one tactic all game?

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Challenge round

Part 11 of 14

Game · Sort it

Which of these are true?

Drag each card into the right column. Tap a card first if dragging is fiddly.

True

Not true

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Challenge round

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Game · Fill the gaps

Finish the sentences

Choose the word that belongs in each gap.

Good players and teams adjust their ____ based on what is and isn't working — for example, a badminton player who keeps losing points to drop shots might start standing slightly further forward.

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Mastery quiz

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Marked quiz

End of lesson quiz: Tactics in net and striking games

3 questions, marked with the reasoning shown. No timer.

  1. 1. In net games like badminton, what is often more effective than power?

  2. 2. In cricket, why might a fielding captain move players around?

  3. 3. Why is it a mistake to stick rigidly to one tactic all game?

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Luna: 0 out of 3 on the practice checks. Only if you feel up to it — one more?

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Do the work

Your written work for this lesson

This is the part you'd do in your book at school. Pick the pieces below, write here or on paper, and photograph anything you draw or work out.

Article

What a warm-up is actually for

A warm-up raises the heart rate, sends more blood to the working muscles and raises muscle temperature by a couple of degrees. Warm muscle stretches further before it tears, and messages between brain and muscle travel faster, so movement is more accurate.

A good warm-up has three parts: a few minutes of easy movement, mobility that takes joints through the range the sport needs, and short bursts at close to game speed.

Long, still stretching before explosive sport can slow the muscle down. Save that kind of stretching for the cool-down.

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Reading questions

  1. Explain in your own words two things a warm-up does to the body.
  2. Design a ten-minute warm-up for one sport, with times for each part.
  3. Keep a training log for three sessions: what you did, how long, and how you felt after.

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    Write what you did, for how long, and how your body felt afterwards.

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