Netball

Netball is a team sport like basketball, mainly for girls and women. Netball is played mainly in the English-speaking world, especially in Australia, Britain and New Zealand and South Africa.

Description and Rules

The Netballfeld, the netball and the baskets

Netball is played on a hard court, which usually has a coating of non-slip asphalt cement. The Netballfeld is 30.5 m long and 15.25 m wide and thus slightly larger than a basketball court. The baskets are in the middle of the baseline. The game field is divided into three thirds at Netball each 10.16 m, the defense third, the middle third and the attacking third. Furthermore, can be found on the Netballfeld a center circle and two opposing gate circuits with a radius of 4.9 m in front of the basket. On the edge of the lateral line usually is a table for the timekeeper and the Anschreiberinnen. The referee moves parallel to the sideline.

The Netball is a hollow ball with a radius of 22.4 cm with a leather or rubber skin. It is much lighter and softer than a basketball. The basket is mounted in 3.05 m height. Unlike basketball is behind him no board, of which the ball could bounce in the basket.

The gameplay and the Netballspielerinnen

The aim of the game is how to throw in the basket also in basketball, netball. However, this is only permitted within the gate circuit. A Netballmannschaft consists of seven players, with each player is allowed to move only within certain third. The ball is passed by bobbling, and can only do so towards the basket to be moved. Has a player the ball, they can not dribble, but make with the ball in their hands a step.

In Netball you can defend only indirectly, namely by catching a pass. The defending players are allowed to ( ≈ 90 cm ) approaching her opponent only up to three feet. This particular way of playing netball there are in addition to the usual passing forms, such as the chest pass and the shoulder pass, and passing forms like the underhand pass or an indirect source player ( passing with ground contact ).

The radius of action of the individual players:

15 players

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