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The Ultimate Training Tool

To take your club’s training to the next level, you need a tool with a big point of difference

The Crazy Catch nets are ideal for use at clubs. It’s two sided design with the unique sane or insane option challenges the very youngest at the club through to the elite. The insane side encourages development of the complex reaction, reflex, coordination and visual skills that are required to deal with the unpredictability of match day. Don’t forget, catches win matches!

Latest technology

We are always working on further development of the Crazy Catch prototype and our latest models are now faster and more insane due to advances in net technology. This will provide added fun and greater challenges to your training. 

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Coaching resources and Activities

Crazy Catch provides excellent skill development with lots of repetition in a fun way, and is great for use as a self directed activity for small groups. We have developed a wide range of activities and resources making it simple to incorporate Crazy Catch into your training programme.

Activities     Scoresheets     Download Results Graph

One Minute Challenge

See how your team performs with the One Minute Crazy Catch Challenge. The Challenge provides a lot of fun, excitement and training variety, as well as providing a useful ongoing assessment of players level of performance.

Activities      1 Minute Challenge Assessment Criteria

Feedback

We have researched realistic competency levels for each age group when using the Crazy Catch. We’d like to build on this knowledge and would appreciate your feedback. Simply download a scoresheet to record your team’s results, then fax or post us a copy. We appreciate your participation and welcome your feedback. *If you require a different file format, please contact us.

Scoresheets

Your Sport

Crazy Catch offers a wide range of activities and levels of challenges that provide training in all 6 areas of visual performance required in almost all ball sports. Also there are excellent fitness and coordination components to the training. For your sport we have listed some of the best Crazy Cards / Challenges / Game Variations. However we do suggest that no sport training is complete without having a go at the One Minute Challenges, Score 5, The Gut Buster and playing Crazy Ball.

 American Football     Rugby      Australian Rules     Rugby League     Tag      Touch Rugby

Crazy Catch is great to use with a rugby ball but also do not forget to use the insane side with the Crazy Catch Balls with all the Crazy Catch Activities. Rugby training can often focus too much on strength at the risk of losing finer motor skills that are often the winning of a match with, for instance gathering the bobbling ball or the intercept pass. You will be surprised how rapidly not only your catching skills develop but also your passing skills.

 Individuals

·           Use the One Minute Challenges 1, 2, 3 & 5 with a rugby ball. Try them together as in the Gut Buster Activity Card.

·           The standard One Minute Challenge but with kicking a rugby ball and catching the rebound. (Where kicking options are used the Original Crazy Catch with the larger target area is the best option).

·           Crazy Catch Bounce Back Activity Card. As well as passing try this activity with kicking into the Crazy Catch and gathering the bouncing ball.

 Groups

·           Use Crazy Card Rotate Your Mates with a rugby ball – excellent visual skills training. How many successful catches / regathering the ball can you and your mates complete in 1 minute.

·           Kick and Catch - Adapt the One Minute Challenge of Throw and Catch but with a group of you.

·           Use Throw and Go or adapt as follows: The person throwing the pass does so as they pass across the centre of the net from 2m (must be past the centre point before passing. A person running in from the other side must gather the rebound, run around the cone and then becomes the passer.

·           Try Score 5 with a rugby ball. You will soon be trying to work out the best angle to pass the ball to give you a better chance of gathering the rebound.

 Team

Crazy Ball. This is fast, skillful and lots of fun.

There are some excellent variations for rugby that you can use.

·           Use a rugby ball or a smaller version of a rugby ball

·           Kick the ball into the Crazy Catch rather than throw / pass

·           Where you want to emphasise development of kicking skills kick instead of passing to players at all times. (Before kicking each time the ball must be claimed – can’t just kick loose on the ground). (For Australian Rules either kick or punch).

Have a lineout when the ball goes out of play. The ball must be thrown in straight. Must travel in the air more than 5m but no more than 15m

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Baseball

Crazy Catch loves baseball and all the Activities are ideal to help improve your catching, batting and ground fielding skills. Quite simply if baseball is your sport you should have a Crazy Catch in your training kit.

Basketball

While the ball size is different the visual skills and coordination developed with Crazy Catch are excellent for Basketball. We recommend that with some of the Crazy Cards and Challenges set the rebound angle high and really challenge your leaping skills. Do try Crazy Ball as a variation for team training as there are many similarities with the game structure.

Cricket

Crazy Catch loves cricket and all the Activities are ideal to help improve your catching, batting and ground fielding skills. Quite simply if cricket is your sport you should have a Crazy Catch in your training kit.

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Football

·                     Try the first five One Minute Challenges kicking rather than throwing the ball and make up your own Crazy Catch Combo and Gut Buster. Make sure you develop your weaker foot.

·                     Play Crazy Ball with kicking the ball when passing to team mates but with the final pass into the base area being caught in the hands. From the base area kick the ball at the Crazy Catch and as with the standard rules the ball can be attempted to be caught. A variation on this is to achieve 2 points the ball must be headed. No points if the ball gets to the ground first.

·                     Although the ball size for the random ball return is different than a football, Crazy Catch is ideal visual skills training for goalies.

Gaelic Football

We recommend that with some of the Crazy Cards and Challenges set the rebound angle high and really challenge your leaping skills. The Crazy Ball game is a must as part of your team training programme.

Handball

Many of the Crazy Catch Challenges and Crazy Cards are ideal for training for handball. Definitely include Crazy Ball as a variation for your team training.

Hockey             Hurling             Lacrosse

(Especially with Hurling we reckon anyone playing this has to be a touch Crazy. We like that).

Try the first 3 One Minute Challenges with a hockey ball and stick and even include Challenges 6 and 7. Make up your own Gut Buster and Crazy Catch Combo. Adapt Throw and Go and Rotate Your Mates for Hockey. If you are a Hockey Goalie then the One minute Challenge No 8 of Throw From Behind will really sharpen up your skills especially on the insane side and if the throwers vary the direction of throw. Adapt Crazy Ball to your sport. For Hockey and Hurling a point is scored when the ball is passed into a player with at least one foot in the base area and contact is made between the ball and the stick in the base area. A further point is scored from the hit into the Crazy Catch with the first stick to intercept the ball on the full face of the stick (deflections don’t count).

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Netball

While the ball size is different the visual skills and coordination developed with Crazy Catch are excellent for netball. We recommend that with some of the Crazy Cards and Challenges set the rebound angle high and really challenge your leaping skills. Do try Crazy Ball as a variation for team training as there are many similarities with the game structure.

Softball

Crazy Catch loves softball and all the Activities are ideal to help improve your catching, batting and ground fielding skills. Quite simply if softball is your sport you should have a Crazy Catch in your training kit.

Tennis

While the current target area is a bit limiting for tennis with use of a racket Crazy Catch is excellent for developing your visual and coordination skills. While all Activities will help we recommend Bounce Back as being particularly useful for developing visual skills associated with the change in flight path of a bouncing ball.

Volleyball

While the ball size is different the visual skills and coordination developed with Crazy Catch are excellent for Basketball. We recommend that with some of the Crazy Cards and Challenges set the rebound angle high and really challenge your leaping skills.