Tennis skills and other fun at Epping Forest Sportability

We had a bit of a mixed bag of ball sports this week at Epping Forest Sportability Club. After a warm up we started by doing some more throwing and catching work in pairs. This reinforced the work we did last week. We then moved on to some Tennis games practicing racket skills and ball control. We played a wonderful new game called Hamburger where teams have to control a tennis ball along a course by sandwiching the ball between their rackets (hopefully the picture below will help explain it better!). The kids really enjoyed this new game so one that may make another appearance again soon.

Georgia works with Thomas doing some catching practice.

After a break the second half of the session consisted of two team games. Firstly, we played Goalball with teams aiming for the big coloured circles as their goals. Afterwards we finished off with some games of benchball, which is always a favourite. All these games involved control a ball and included elements of throwing, catching or balancing a ball.

Hal and Theo (with help from Georgia) play Hamburger, a balancing and control game.

At the end of the session the coaches all agreed that Hal was the Star of the Week so congratulations Hal and well done for particpating so well.

Our Star of the Week Hal, pictured with Georgia and Anand