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Ball sports for kids in Melbourne
Get the ball rolling for your little Melburnian athletes! As the ultimate city for sports, Melbourne is a great place for your kids to engage into ball sports. There's no need to wait for summer! In Melbourne, ball sport camps and events happen year-round!
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Football (AFL) for kids in Victoria
Get your kids active and fit with football!<br /><br />The most popular among the ball sports for kids in Australia is football or AFL. If your family is living in Victoria, you can introduce football to them by watching a kids football game or letting them join youth football team.
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Lacrosse for Kids
Get fit with this exhilarating team activity!<br><br>It is a contact sport so padding may be required!
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Putt Putt Golf for Kids
Test your kids’ skill and agility with this fun game!<br><br>A great activity for kids and adults alike!
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Hobbies For Kids
Give your kids something to occupy themselves in their spare time!<br><br> Hobbies are anything your child likes to do in their spare time and can be as diverse as arts and crafts, cooking or driving remote control cars. As well as giving kids something to do with their time, hobbies can be educational and a great way to make friends!
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Basketball Camps and Clinics: Summer Fun for Kids Who Love Hoops
It's not all about technical prowess; these camps also focus on developing mental toughness, discipline, and a positive attitude.
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5 things you can do to set your child up for a great cricket season
Not every game of cricket is a winner, but with the right preparation you can help your child to feel like a winner every time! These five tips will help you to encourage your child into the sport and ensure they feel supported and successful.
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Tips for kids playing basketball
Basketball isn't just a great team sport to play - it's a skill that needs to be learned and practiced in order to continue improving. There are four areas where kids can focus to really start to improve their basketball skills and this article outlines all of them.
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Touch Rugby for your Kids
A low risk way to play rugby for boys and girls!<br>Touch rugby, also known as touch football is a form of rugby that has been around since the 1950s.
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Futsal - the best skills developer
A study has compared Futsal to Football and concluded that Futsal can help kids develop technical skills and transform them into quick decision makers. The study concluded that Futsal players execute passes with a higher intensity as they make 23% more passes per minute that are 18% more accurately than football players. Find out more here.
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Indoor Soccer (Futsal) For Kids
The most popular sport today: soccer! Get your kids to try it indoors!<br><br>Indoor soccer, also known as futsal, is simpler version of the regular soccer. The same rules apply but it is played on a smaller indoor field, almost the size of a basketball court, and played with a smaller and heavier ball (for it to bounce less). Indoor soccer was introduced in Australia in 1971. Now there are 18,000 registered indoor soccer players and 120,000 social participants in competitions nationwide.<br><br>
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Oztag for kids
Get tagged with OzTag! As a variant of tag rugby, OzTag is a non-contact team game that can be enjoyed by people of all athletic abilities from ages 6 to 60.
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Volleyball for Kids
Teach kids to play volleyball!<br /><br />. The purpose of teaching children how to play volleyball and other activities for kids as such is for them to develop a passion for the sport or activity as well as to provide them more opportunities to spend their time and burn their energy in a fun and meaningful way.
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Soccer for Kids
A great team and tactic sports! Soccer, or European Football, is a great way for your kids to get fun with friends or family in a park, or can be played professionally in a club. Competition or just fun, whatever the case, your kids will love it.
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Netball for Kids
The perfect safe sport for your kids, and especially your doughter! Your kids will have a lot of fun playing this derivative of basketball, which lies more on technique than physical condition.
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Rugby League for Kids
A great team sport for your kids who want to get physical! Rugby League provides many benefits,but the major thing it brings is the coordination, communication and strategy your children will have to develop while playing with teammates.
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Top 10 craziest hole-in-one shots
A hole-in-one is usually a once in a lifetime experience. Whether your playing as part of a fundraising effort, in a competition with friends or a more serious golf tournament (check out this first of its kind hole-in-one competition in New Zealand – for both amateurs and professionals) there could be a 3-par tee that has your name on it… or not.
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Backyard Cricket and Beach Cricket
Looking for something to do on a sunny afternoon? <br>Backyard or beach cricket is a great way to spend an afternoon with family and friends!
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Basketball for Kids
Has your kid played a one-to-one basketball game with you? Either professionally or in your backyard, basketball is a great sport to enjoy with friends or family.
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Softball for kids
Let your kids experience softball for kids - one of the many sports for kids which can be played by toddlers and children! Softball for kids is the same as baseball for kids, including the rules of the game, except that toddlers and children don’t have to fear getting hit by the ball. Softball for kids is modified according to children’s age so that they can progress to another level as they develop their physical strengths on a game of team sports.
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