Sleeping lions is a game where its a process of elimination, well not for the first couple of goes anyways. The children line up but then lay on their fronts and face the coaches. Then the coaches kick a ball per child away from them and until they have all landed and stopped, we ask the sleeping lions 'children' to wake up at which point they run off to collect a ball each, this is used as a final game as it's to see how quickly they're able to react to a ball. This will help the children with reactions and vision and also a great ay to burn off any more energy they have at the end of the session (if any)
This practice has no coaching points
This practice has no progressions
in more ways than one
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