Lesson video

Hi, Mr. Wnuk here.

And today's PE lesson is going to look at throwing and catching in sport.

Let's do this.

If you're unsure about doing any of the activities in this lesson, make sure you have a trusted adult nearby when you start them.

This lesson should take place indoors, such as in your living room.

You should ensure there's space for you to work safely, including overhead.

Use bare feet, not socks.

Make sure the floor is not slippery, wear comfortable clothing, put hair up if needed, and remove any jewellery.

Pause this video now if there's anything you need to do to get ready.

For today's lesson, you're going to need to be in your PE kit.

Ideally, shorts and T-shirt.

And if you're doing this session indoors, please make sure you are barefoot.

If you're doing this outdoors, please make sure you've got suitable footwear such as trainers.

For the equipment, we're going to need a ball, ideally a small ball like a tennis ball.

If you don't have a tennis ball, a ball of socks would be great or you could even use a toilet roll.

You're also going to need something to act as a target, such as a basket or a bucket.

But anything you can place down that would be a target, and something to act as a marker.

And again, you can use some socks or a trainer or something around the house that you can use as a marker.

The area you're going to need to use around you is about two metres around.

So, if you need to pause the video to get any of this together, please do so now.

Now you've done plenty of warm ups before in school or throughout these lessons on Oak Academy, so you should know what to do.

I would like you to go and do a warm up now.

So pause the video.

Just remember that we need three stages of a warm up.

So, we need to do a pulse raiser, we need to do some stretching and mobility exercises.

And we also need to do some skill related practise.

So pause the video now and go and do your warm up and then rejoin me once you've warmed up.

So how is this lesson going to look? Well, firstly, we already completed the warm up.

Then we're going to get into some catching for activity one, followed by learning how to stop the ball in activity two, and then finally finishing off with some throwing.

And then you're going to do an exit quiz.

So what's the first key word of today's lesson? Well, it's hand-eye coordination.

This is the ability to process visual information to guide hand and arm movements such as reaching and grasping in sport, eye catching the ball.

So we're going to do some catching and throwing today.

And it is used in many sports, but predominantly in cricket, rounders, softball and baseball.

So we're going to be looking today at catching where we're going to use a W-shape catch, we're going to look at one-handed and two-handed catches, we're going to look at stopping the ball using two different barriers.

And we're also going to look at throwing techniques.

And just remember that we can use different techniques whenever we're doing any of these skills.

So we're going to get started with our first activity which is catching.

So, please make sure you've got your equipment ready and we will get on with activity.

Okay guys, we're going to work on some throwing skills today.

You've already warmed up, so we're going to get straight into the drills.

Now for this, you're going to need a ball, a smaller ball rather than a football-sized ball, a small cricket ball, tennis ball.

Or if you haven't got something like that, a bundle of socks rolled up into a ball would be brilliant.

You could possibly use a toilet roll, slightly bigger, but it'll still work just as good.

I'm going to use a wall that I'm going to be doing these drills off of.

If you've got someone at home who can help you, you can work with those guys.

But if you're going to do against a wall, make sure you've told people who are working in the house that you're going to be using a ball against the wall.

If you're doing it inside, make sure you've cleared the area that you're not going to knock into anything or break anything.

So you've got some space around you and they use a water bottle that's going to damage your wall.

So, key thing when we're catching a ball, we want to make a shape similar to our W shape that we've been doing with basketball and other ball sports.

We're going to make it slightly smaller and when the ball comes in, you're going to cup into the ball and bring it into your abdomen region into your torso and your chest.

And it works even better if you bring it into your preferred throwing hands.

So for me, it'd be my right side.

If the ball goes low, you can swing your arms around, hands around and cup the ball into a lower W shape.

So it's under still a W, but cupping it and bring it into your chest.

So if you just stand and throw it up in the air, catch it in W, bring it round if you need to.

And then just gently up, and cup it in low.

So practise, of course we didn't practise throwing up just gently, catching it high and catching it low, trying to make that cupping action with your hands, bringing it into your dominant into your chest, and then twisting slightly to your dominant throwing arm.

Pause the video, have a go.

Excellent stuff, now we're going to move to the wall, and we're going to do some two-handed catches.

So, you want to be facing your target looking at the ball all the time.

And we're going to work on those hand positioning.

So start off with two hands low.

So just throw it against the wall, two hands low, bring it in.

So you come to meet the ball, and then you guide it back into your chest, into your stomach.

So meet the ball, guide it in.

Meet the ball, guide it in.

Then we're going to go medium high.

Again, I'm going underarm catching here.

Oh, that was an overarm catch 'cause it popped up high, so be ready to move your hands around.

And then go high above your head if you need to, cup it in and bring it in remember.

So we're going to move faster, cup it in.

Try one where it goes up high, and you got to get underneath it.

Okay, so higher, the better.

And then mix it up, like high, medium without dropping.

So I want you to pause the video and practise how many 200 catches you can make consecutively and mix it up from low, medium, high and then to really high ones you got to get under the ball.

Pause the video, have a go.

Excellent stuff.

How many catches did you make consecutively? Brilliant.

So now we're going to do some one-handed catches and it's the same principle.

You're going to bring your hand towards the ball to meet the ball and guide it backwards.

And you can bring it into your abdominal area to throw it again.

Now we're bringing it into abdominal so if we do miss it, it's going to bounce off our abdomen, and then we're going to be able to catch it again.

But if we bring it out here and we miss it, the ball's going to go all the way over there.

So face your target, one hand gently meets it, and we can try bring it in.

Remember to bring it into your body if you need to one hand, then once you've caught it, you can cup it over with the second hand to make it extra secure.

We can go higher and also change sides to your left hand.

Once again, I want you to pause the video.

I want you to practise one-handed catching off the wall and see how many catches you can make consecutively.

Pause the video now, go on and have a go.

Superb work with the catching.

I hope you managed to do plenty of consecutive catches off the wall and are very confident when we move on on to our next activity.

So one of the key words we're looking at is visual input.

And this is gathering sensory information using sight to see, observe and make connections.

Now when we're playing sports, such as cricket or rounders, it's important to gauge visually where the ball is going so we can catch it.

So, when preparing to catch a ball, you should make a W shape with your hands.

Is that true or false? Yes, it's true, your hand should be up in front of you in a W shape.

Now this applies to all ball sports where we are catching a ball.

So your hands should be out in front of you in that W shape.

And it one it shows that you're ready to catch the ball.

And it's also able to clasp the ball and bring it into your body.

So another key word we're going to be looking at is the flight path.

Now in general, most objects in the air such as a ball will follow a typical parabolic curve, which is this upside down U shape and it's symmetrical on both sides.

So whatever the one side looks like the other side tends to be the same and that's what a parabolic curve is.

And when we're trying to catch a ball, it's always good to have that in our minds 'cause it can help us anticipate where the ball is actually going to end up and get our bodies there ready to catch the ball.

So the flight path is the trajectory, or the course the ball is following while it's in the air.

So, let's get ready for our next activity, which is going to be stopping the ball.

So, if you need to get your equipment ready, please do so if not, I will see you in a few seconds.

Great stuff, everybody, we're going to now practise a movement called a long barrier, which we use to stop the ball while it's on the move, it looks like this, let's assume the ball's about there on the floor coming towards us.

We're going to come towards the ball, we're going to walk, move towards the ball.

I'm going to put my foot parallel to the angle the ball, sorry, perpendicular to the way the ball is moving.

So, I'm going to face that way.

I'm going to bend my knee down to the ground.

And this is where I make my barrier.

And then I'm going to look and head down to the ball cup the ball and then stand up and throw it back to where I need to throw it.

Now it's important to make this barrier because if you miss it with your hand it's going to bounce off your feet, and then you can catch it with your hands afterwards.

So first move, ball on the floor, step back from it, walk towards it stepping foot perpendicular, right angle, crouch, pick the ball up.

And you can roll it off to your partner if you're using a partner or against a wall.

So I want you to stop the video, I want you to practise that movement.

Excellent stuff.

Now we're going to put that long barrier into practise while the ball is moving.

So I'm going to roll the ball against my wall, and then I'm going to come forwards to meet it, try and get in the line of the ball.

Remember, you're going to place your foot down, then your knee down, then you're going to bend your knees, crouch down your knees, obviously on the ground.

So you're bending your knees at the same time and then reach your hands down to pick the ball up, roll it back against the wall and do it again.

So, off the wall, step forward, long barrier pick the ball up again.

Against the wall, okay.

So you go against the wall, long barrier.

So I missed it but my long barrier prevented it from going anywhere.

It shouldn't hurt.

So, try to anticipate the movement of the ball, anticipate the angle it's going to come through there.

Pause the video and have a go, good luck.

Excellent stuff, how did hat long barrier work go for you? We're now going to put into place a short barrier.

Now short barrier is a quicker movement.

a long barrier is good for a defensive sort of positioning where you're trying to stop the ball going out of the boundaries.

The short barrier is good for close and quick attacking style play.

So, place the ball on the floor.

I'm right handed so I'm going to approach the ball with my left foot forward first, going forward first.

So I'm going to step forwards, I'm going to place my right foot back behind it.

So essentially, this is where the barrier comes, hits my foot if I miss it in my hand.

So I'm going to step forwards, crouch, pick the ball up, and then play a return shot.

Let's go a bit quicker, ball's on the floor.

I'm going to step forward to create that barrier, and then pass the ball back.

So pause the video, set it up so the ball is on the floor, walking approach it, non dominant foot, non dominant hand foot is going to go to the side of the ball, your dominant hand foot is going to go behind the ball, scoop it up and roll it back to where you want to roll it to.

Pause the video, have a go.

Okay, we're now going to practise that short barrier with a moving ball.

So we're going to use a ball against the wall, roll it against the wall, meet it with my short barrier and roll it back.

So meet it, short barrier, roll it back.

Roll against the floor, meet it with the short barrier.

I'm catching it off the wall 'cause it would be too quick to do otherwise come too close.

So I meet it and I play it back.

Pause the video, have a go at that short barrier.

Okay, final one we're going to do is chasing the ball.

Now we're going to imagine you're not always going to be in line with the ball, you're not always going to be close to the ball.

So this time you're going to roll the ball and then come at it from an angle.

The key thing is to do is to get your dominant hand and foot around the back of the ball to pick it up to be able to return it to where it needs to go.

So I'm going to come from here, but the ball is going to be going over there.

So I came here I meet it with my non dominant hand and then play it back in.

I'm going to meet it with my non dominant hand, play it back.

So, pause the video, roll it over a slight angle come to meet it with my dominant hand round the back of it, dominant foot there to protect it, scoop it up and play it back in against the wall.

Pause the video, have a go.

Brilliant work on stopping the wall using the long barrier and the short barrier.

And we, in all of the instances, we were retrieving the ball or building the ball while it was on the move.

Now that took decision making.

And decision making is a process of evaluating several alternative options and choosing the right one for a particular situation or goal.

So when the ball was moving, and you were running towards the ball, and then fielding it from the floor, you were making decisions about which way you should go, you're interpreting the path of the ball, getting your body behind the ball, and making the right decision about how to scoop it up, ready to field it.

So, we looked at the long barrier.

And this is generally used as a defensive fielding technique and is aimed at stopping the ball reaching boundaries, particularly in cricket.

And we move towards the ball, when we are trying to complete this technique, that's one of the key aspects of the long barrier.

We tend to get in line with the ball the direction the ball is moving, we need to bend both our knees and twist our bodies sideways and to place one foots on the ground, and then the other knee on the ground with the lower leg resting on the ground as well.

And that creates the barrier shape, which if you miss the ball, it can with your hands, the long barrier of the leg will stop the ball.

And obviously you reach down pick the ball up and then we field it.

The other technique we looked at was a short barrier.

The technique for this is used as a more of an attacking play.

So when we want to stop the ball quickly and return it quickly.

So again, with a short barrier, you need to move towards the ball, you need to place one foot in front of the other, you bend your knees, you reach your arms down, and our hands open and in front of the ball in front of the foot, sorry.

And the back foot is in line with the hands.

So that back foot is there to create that short barrier, in case you spill the ball.

So let's get ready for activity three, which is going to be throwing.

So once again, if you need to gather your equipment together, please do so.

If not, I will see you in a few seconds.

'Cause we've been working on our catching we can now progress to our throwing and we're going to throw the ball against the wall and then catch it.

So we're going to start off with an underarm throws.

So, with an underarm throw the key thing is about transferring your weight forward.

So, you're going to step forward with your non throwing hand as you release the ball.

So I'm going to start with a ball gripped to my hand, Hold your waist tight and just step forward, push it towards my target, and then release it.

I catch it now when I release it, I'm pointing my hand towards the area I'm aiming for.

And this is what's called follow through so reconstruct and then follow through.

Step forwards, catch.

Step forwards, catch.

Remember that catching motion, we catch it, bring it into our throwing hand, and we can just keep going in a circle cushion it, come in to step, underarm.

That stepping action.

Now we can go lower or we can go higher.

We just keep going.

So I want you to pause the video and I really want you to focus on your your throwing and aiming at a particular point in the wall and seeing how you can get consecutively without dropping.

Pause the video, and have a go.

Right, next what we're going to do is an overarm throw.

Now, an overarm throw is very similar where we start with our feet, can be face facing the target, or we can be side on but the key thing is the ball is going to start up by your ear above your head so elbow up high, above all by your head.

And then we're going to step forwards as we throw.

Now I'm going to use my other hand, to direct the angle of my throw.

So I'm going to point where I want it to go and then I'm going to step forward at the same time, transfer my weight and bring the ball through.

So the motion I want you to see step forwards, do this and transfer my weight.

Step forwards and twist.

And as I move I'm bringing my back foot forwards as well.

Step over and throw.

Now just do it gently against the wall to start with.

Swing arm up, follow through, throw it, step forward, just keep going.

See how many consecutively you can get in a row.

Excellent work with that throwing and I hope you were successful.

But when throwing an object or any object, you should transfer your weight towards the target.

Is that true or is that false? Well, the answer is true.

Well done if you've got that one right, fantastic work.

Okay, so let's look at these options on the screen.

And let's answer this question.

Which of these is the correct definition of hand-eye coordination? Is it the ability to move the hands and feet at the same time? Is it option two? The ability to process auditory information to guide the hands? Is option three, the ability to process visual information to guide the feet? Or is it option four, the ability to process visual information to guide the hands? Which of those choices is the correct definition of hand-eye coordination? Okay, I want you to shout it out to the screen.

And shout out now.

Did you shout out option four? Or did you shout out the ability to process visual information to guide the hands? And if you did, you are right.

Fantastic work, you are awesome.

So now we're going to look at throwing and catching and linking those skills together.

So when we need to stop a moving ball, you should wait for it to come to you.

Is that true or is that false? And the answer is false.

You should move towards the ball predicting the line of travel.

Yes, we're anticipating the movement of the ball and predicting where it's going to end up and then move our bodies accordingly.

This was more efficient fielding, it'll be quicker, and therefore you'll be able to get the opponent out quicker.

So what is hand-eye coordination? I want you to pause the video whilst you write the answer down using this sentence starter, "Hand-eye coordination is.

." So hopefully you've written something along the lines of hand-eye coordination is the ability to process visual information to guide the hands and our movements such as reaching and grasping in sport.

And if you linked it to any of the skills that we've looked at so far in cricket, or rounders, then you can have yourself some bonus points.

Well done.

Excellent work with that throwing everybody.

Now what we're going to try and do is link some skills together and work on our throwing at targets.

So the first thing I want you to do is try and use some objects you might have around the house as a target.

So I've put a bucket down there, and another bucket over there further back.

And I'll just start throwing over on, I'm going to try and hit the further target.

So, remember to stand you can stand side on if you want or you can stand square.

Ball's going to be above your head, you're going to step forward and transfer your weight and aim for the bucket.

I missed, that's not a problem, pause.

So let's try it again.

Step forward and aim for the bucket.

When you hit the one bucket, you can transfer to the other one.

So I'm going to now go underarm and aim for this one.

So remember to step forwards underarm and hit the bucket.

So firstly set up two targets, and try and aim for those targets.

Okay, I'd like you to now pause the video while you set up this target challenge.

So I want you to set up a series of targets at varying distances away from you, and attempt to throw your ball at these consecutively and incorporate catching and stopping the ball so you could roll it off the wall, you could have someone feed into you.

And please make sure that this is done in a safe environment.

If you can use some of the skills, the different throwing techniques that we've used today to hit those targets.

That's even better.

Once you finish doing this, you can resume this video.

So pause it now and crack on with that target challenge.

All right, we're at that stage of the lesson now where we need to cool down.

As with previous lessons, and at school, you've done plenty of cool downs in your career as a student.

So I'm not going to demonstrate how to do a cool down but I am going to remind you what a cool down needs to look like.

So the first stage of a cool down should have a pulse lowering exercise, something that will bring your heart rate down.

This can be a gentle jog, or walking around the area you've just been doing your sports in, trying to gently bring that gradually bring that heart rate down.

Then further out with some stretching and ideally some static stretching where you're holding the stretches trying to alleviate any muscle tension and allow you to recover quicker Pause the video now and complete your cool down.

So in today's lesson, we looked at throwing and catching in sport, and we looked at various techniques.

We started off with catching and we talked about the correct hand position, where we started with a W and ultimately cupped the smaller ball either high up on your face or low, and then we bring our hands around in a circle slightly lower.

We looked at one-handed and two-handed catching and we gave that some practise.

We then moved on to the long barrier and the short barrier and then applied that to a moving ball at an angle.

So we were trying to field the ball defensively and offensively.

We then moved on to some throwing practise where we looked at both overarm and underarm and then you applied it to some target practise where you are linking in some of the other skills such as catching and fielding a moving ball.

We really focused on hand-eye coordination, particularly using visual input.

And then we really focused on decision making and the ability to evaluate the situation we're in and anticipate the movement of the ball by predicting things such as the flight path to make the correct decision.

And that's what sport is so good at not just physically but improving your mental processes such as quick decision making.

Fantastic lesson everybody, I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

And I'll see you very soon.