Netball
2009 Holiday Special Sports Part 4

In this next part of the sports special, we move away from racket sports and look at netball. Frankly, I know nuts about netball. My first impressions about netball is that it involves a lot of physical contact, somewhat like basketball. In principle, you can shoot netball like you are shooting basketball with the main difference being that you bounce the ball in one and you toss the ball around in the other.

Anw, shooting this netball match was not easy, given the lousy lighting conditions. You have to go up to ISO3200 to only get a decent shutter speed [Note: Decent not equal good=(] I guess that pre-focusing can help quite a bit in such situations as focusing can get a bit haywired in dim conditions like this. There are other ways to work around it too.;)

Lastly, one unique feature about netball is that players have designated positions and they have restrictions due to these position. You don't see cases in soccer where a defender can run all the way to the front to score a goal here. Having some knowledge about the designated positions can help better in shooting the game. This is the same with every sports out there: Learn the game before you shoot it;)