Welcome to the Crazy Catch / Crazy Ball section of our site:
What makes the Crazy Catch different?
The Crazy Catch is a double sided rebound net. What makes it different is that it is the only rebound net in the world with an "insane" side! So what you may ask? The insane side ensures that the ball return off the net is unpredicatable - thus you never know where the ball will be going when it returns to you!
Have a look at this video 
You thus need to be constantly alert and focused when practicing the ball return; you need to learn to move your feet, your eyes and your hands at all times if you are to catch the ball. It teaches you coordination - an important tool at all ages.
Crazy Catch - unique sporting equipment : rapid skill development, unlimited healthy fun. Its double sided: the same side providing predictable ball return, while the insane side providing erratic and unpredictable returns.
The Crazy Catch – Original; Crazy Catch Wild Child and the Crazy Catch Upstart
We hope you find this section useful and informative of the fun and activities surrounding this exciting product.
The Importance of Coordination?
Why is it important to learn coordination at a young age? Research has shown that your co ordination abilities start at the age of 3-4 years old. Catching is one of the vital tools of learning to co-ordinate your eyes/ hands and feet and will play a major role in your child's natural co-ordination in later life! This will often lead to obesity and poor health Some articles of interest :
Physical Development : Strength and Coordinationby Dr Eric Strikland
Coordinated approach to Child Health - Catch; Article:
Physical control and coordination and adult obesity ;
Poor coordination, Physical Education in Childhood linked to adult obesity Medscape
How to develop hand to eye coordination for the young athlete ;
Learning to Catch by Drawk Kwast ;
Play Catch for Preschool and Younger Joy Suarez
Its important to have 60 minutes a day of physical activity this can be organised sport, activities at home or in the park or joining a club.. whichever way you choose its important to be fun, build confidence and build team work and social skills.
We `all know that physical education helps children prepare to become active, healthy adults.
The National Association for Sport and Physical Education has laid out some ideas - Click here to have a look.
Crazy Catch for :
Families:
The Crazy Catch can play a vital role in your child's coordination, to being a great fun product for the whole family.
Great for family bonding, lots of fun in the back garden, in the park or on the beach.
The ideas in the activity packs provided will give the whole family hours and hours of fun.
Fun for all the family, in your back garden, in the park on holiday or on the beach - you can play it just about anywhere!
Its light weight, pack away into a small flat cover.
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Schools:
From youngsters at Key stage 1 and 2 -- who are learning about the basics of sport and co-ordination; to the up and coming athlete and sports person, in Key stage 3 – 4 who wish to improve their basics skills; eye fitness and hand/foot eye co-ordination to the athlete who has achieved the top of their profession.
Crazy Catch and Crazy Ball now form part of the Your Activity programme for the Youth Sport Trust
Activity Cards: Each Crazy Catch has down loadable Activity Cards.
Crazy Ball - Activity Card Go Crazy - Activity Card Onemc - Activity Card
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Training:
Flicx offers half day training courses for training the trainers. This can be organised at a venue of your choice.
Schools and clubs in Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Lancashire , Lincolnshire, Cornwall, Cumbria, Devon, Yorkshire are where just some of the schools are located that are playing Crazy Ball.
Professional Athletes:
Crazy Catches are now being used by professional sports men and women from a variety of sports for both skill development and warm up games. The most recent exciting development is in the football goalie, where goalkeepers are now using the Crazy Catches to improve reaction timing and improved performance.
The Crazy Catch is being used by top international Cricketing teams ( England, South African, New Zealand and Australian), Top International Hockey teams ( Dutch, England Woman's and Welsh Hockey), Top International Rugby teams ( England, South African) Top International Netball teams ( New Zealand) amongst others.
Freddie Flintoff using the Crazy Catch at one of the 2009 Freddie Flintoff Summer Camps
The Crazy Catch is being used by the British Olympic teams for training for the 2012 Olympics – for sports such as Badminton, Hockey, Tennis, Fencing- all part of improving reaction training, eye fitness, peripheral vision.
Dr Sherylle Clader :
The Crazy Catch is endorsed by Dr Sherylle Calder !! 
Who is Dr S Calder ? and why does she endorse the Crazy Catch !
A Doctor of Sports Science, she played a key role in helping England win the 2003 Rugby World Cup and then joined up with South Africa as they won the 2007 title.
Her speciality is the field of hand eye co-ordination and human movement, an area which leading sports coaches like Sir Clive Woodward and former Springbok rugby coach Jake White believe contains the potential for significant enhancement of individual skills by all sports men and women, from potential world champions down to ambitious junior athletes.
Dr Calder has worked extensively with the British Olympic teams, England Rugby and Cricket teams in developing and improving their performance. Stars such as Johnny Wilkinson( England Rugby, Simon Taufel ( International Cricket Umpire) Maurits Hendriks ( Head Coach - Spanish Hockey Team) Testimonials
Some recent press articles UK Sport.gov Times On Line
Watch her recent interview regarding the importance of vision in sport . (Dr Calders presentation starts after 3 minutes into the video)
View Crazy Catch - Original
View Crazy Catch - Wild Child
Crazy Ball : 
Crazy Catch is an extremely versatile product that can be adaptable for any sporting or fun activity.
Together with the Youth Sport Trust Flicx UK has incorporated the crazy catch into a game - Crazy Ball.
CrazyBall is fast furious and fun and is now being played in schools and clubs around the country..
- it is easy to set up and take down
- can be played across all ages , genders and skill levels
- suitable for sports & activities where multiskilling play an important role
Rules:
The Rules of Crazy Catch are simple and easy to follow.
Watch the video on the basic rules:
Testimonials
Crazy Catch Benefits
While expensive, this was labelled “the best toy ever!” by one young tester and would be a popular investment-buy for a school or crèche. The children spent all afternoon devising their own games to play with the Crazy Catch net, and it was popular with dads too, who pointed out that it would be great for cricket and baseball training. Click here
Football
“Using Flicx revolutionary crazy catch we are able to test all our keepers reactions to the full. All our keepers thoroughly enjoy using it, and the crazy catch will now regularly feature in our shot stopping sessions in the future, for all of our keepers.”
Dave Woodhall MD of Goalkeeper Development Scheme, and Walsall FC Centre of Excellence Goalkeeping Coach.
“I use the Crazy Catch in training during the week; it helps me get my eye in before my shooting drills.”
Shwan Jalal, AFC Bournemouth First Team Goalkeeper.
“A great piece of equipment, great for hand eye co-ordination, reaction work and a multitude of goalkeeping drills.”
Neil Moss, Between the Sticks Goalkeeping Academy, and AFC Bournemouth’s First Team Goalkeeping Coach.
Schools
“We have now purchased over 40 Crazy Catches for my partnership in Lincolnshire.. I find the smaller model, Crazy Catch Wildchild is suitable for the primary schools - they are portable, easy to set up and put away, can be moved from school to school.
Pauline Yemm, Partnership Development Manager
“A remarkably versatile piece of equipment that is limited only by your own imagination. I have now used the Crazy Catches and played CrazyBall for the last 6 months in my position as Special School Sports Co-ordinator and so I have found many uses for it in my own work with children with and without special needs”
John Duggan - Special School Sport Coordinator,
Leicester City Schools Partnership
Crazy Ball is a great activity for young people to get involved with. A throwing and catching activity for the 21st Century. It can make physical activity more exciting for older age groups.
Matt Baker Youth Sport Trust Innovations Development Officer,
Loughborough
The great thing about crazy catch is that it can either allow young people to use skills they already have to play an exciting, fast moving game with their friends, or to further develop their hand-eye coordination skills.
Maura Hyland –Director of Specialism Haydock Sports College
St Helens, Lancashire
Cricket
Crazy catch is a great innovation. We used them at the Andrew-Flintoff Academy where the kids had a crazy catch one minute challenge which they thoroughly enjoyed.
Paul Atkins - former Surrey batsman, Bucks Captain for 10 years, Andrew Flintoff Academy coach.
“Crazy catch is great fun and children really enjoy the fielding practices whilst using it. I'm looking forward to really wane the ball in to the insane side to see what happens,”
England World Cup winner Caroline Atkins
“You can't catch it on your own so anything that helps youngsters get a bit of extra practice in when they need it is always useful. Someone who may be having a few problems with their catching can do five or ten minutes a day developing their own skills. Crazy catches something different that can provide a bit of fun or competition.”
Former Worcestershire and England batsmen Graeme Hick
“Brilliant, fun, love ‘em! You can do a multitude of different things - play competitive fielding games like crazy ball, test hand eye coordination in a way that you can see players fundamental skills visibly improve.”
Rupert Kitzinger, Head Coach, Andrew Flintoff Academy