SKILL FOCUS: Foot-coordination, Speed & Agility. EQUIPMENT: Jumping rope, speed ladder/ speed hurdles, hoops, marker cones (3 stations) & soccer balls. WHAT TO DO: SET UP: Create two, 3 point stations in a triangular form. From station 1 to station 2 to station 3 (two grids for two teams). Station 2 form part of both teams route. From Station 1 to Station 2 place hoops in a zigzag form (see demonstration). From Station 2 to Station 3 place marker cones one meter from each other (4 cones). From Station 3 to Station 1 place the speed ladder or speed hurdles. PLAY THE GAME: At the first Station the first member of each team must skip with two legs for 20 times (depend of the level of athletes). After theyâve jump 20 skips they need to run the hoops (one leg in one hoop). At station 2 two the learner/athlete must skip 10 single leg skips per leg before they advance to station 3. From station 2 to station 3 the learner must dribble the soccer ball around the cones. At station 3 the learners will do 10 cross over skips before they run to station one where there partner will start at station 1. From station 3 towards station 1 the athlete must run the speed ladders or the speed hurdles. The first team to go through the course wins.
Let the athelete count loudly as they skip, to make sure they do not cheat.
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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