Catching Drills

I have one I do in my room - throw a ball at one corner of the room, where two walls meet at a right angle - aim for the join, but most times it'll hit one wall before the other, then the other and bounce back at an unpredictable angle. You can choose how hard/high you throw the ball (I suggest a tennis ball or lighter).

I'm sure I drive my flatmates mad with this!

Every training session, my coach takes out a Krazy Catcher, It is a very good item because there are two sides: sane and insane. Sane isnt as hard as insane, sane is just throwing the ball at the net and bounces back to you. Insane side goes everywhere, good for slip pratise.

I got another tip. I do this in my living room all the time and really makes my mom angry. WARNING: Only do this if you have a carpet floor (you can't really call it a floor if it's carpet...whatever).

Anyway stand at one end of the room. throw the ball randomly and dive and try and catch it. It'll get the fear out of you of diving...if you're afraid of diving.

Well, no, that's not what I meant.

You're saying that the ball should bounce off the wall first, and then you should dive for it?

I find JP catching thing really useful.

That's a really hard one but a very useful one as well.

Ofcourse, Using a soft ball is also much more safer for the things around you if you are doing catching drills in your living room or bedroom like me.

I did the same thing 2 weeks ago at my aunts house and she didn't say anything to me, since I was a guest.

But I managed to temporarily fix the picture frame and hang it back up.

Our coach does that too, except we play indoors. He sometimes drives the ball really hard on the ground towards us or somewhere in our direction. He sometimes gives a fast catch that is coming at us or in our direction. And sometimes he gives a surprise slow catch and you have to be ready for it, so you can run, dive, and catch it.

in my house, my broi and I play cricket in the corridor at times....I smaked the ball and hit this glass picture frame...I never got in trouble coz everyone understood the reason afterwards...lol...

I have a simple but effective catching drill:
You choose a section of the wall that is fairly big, you stand in front of the wall, and someone else stands behind you. The person at the back throws the ball anywhere on the wall and the person in front (having not looked where the other person is going to throw it) has to catch it after it has deflected off the wall. If you are more confident reduce the gap between you and the wall. This is ideal for playing the back garden.

So what do you think of it saad? any good? Its simple but effective.

cool, nice idea.

Originally posted by Warne in making Me and my mates use a slip catching cradle. We line up (3 of us) and the coach lobs it in. Were divin at all angles tryin to stop it

Excuse me, but how exactly does that cradle work?

sorry f0r digging an old topic up but i was wondering if anyone had any tips on cathing.....

by this i mean is there a simple technique. this came abouts after thurdays training session. i can catch most balls thrown at me but the ones thorwn high up in the air i struggle with.

i bruised my hand trying to catch a highen, anyway if you guys have any tips on catching techniques.

cheers people