Reaction and leapfrog games
Ready when: nothing needed.
What you are learning
Quick reactions, speed and agility through team chase games and a leapfrog relay. Wrestlers need to react in an instant and move their bodies with control.
Words on this card Leapfrog
- Leapfrog
- Jumping over a crouching partner with the hands on their back.
Show it first for the one teaching
- Two teams stand facing each other along the centre line; give the teams names.
- Call one team's name: that team chases the other back to its safe line.
- Show leapfrog: one crouches low with the head tucked, the other jumps over with the hands on the back.
Your part while they practise
Give the signals; count the tags.
Step by step
- Two teams face each other at the centre line.
- You call one team's name and it chases the other back to its safe line.
- Scatter and line up again on a signal.
- Leapfrog relay in pairs to a line.
How much: 10 calls and 2 relays 15 min a session once a week
Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.
The game: Call and chase
The called team chases; each tag scores.
Who plays: two teams of 3 or more against each other; you call.
How to play, turn by turn
- Turns
- Teams face each other at the centre line, a step apart
- Call a team: it chases; the other runs to its safe line
- A player tagged before the safe line scores a point for the chasers
- Everyone lines up again. 10 calls
- Fair play
- A grown-up plays walking only.
- Points
- 1 point to the chasing team for each tag before the safe line.
- Fouls
- The tag does not count
- Running before the call
- Pushing instead of touching
- Tagging after the runner crosses the safe line
- Winning
- The team with more points after 10 calls.
- 2 points for 1 star
- 4 points for 2 stars
- 6 points for 3 stars
Easier or harder
Walking only.
Start sitting or lying down.
What you will see, and what to say
- the child runs before the call
Wait for the signal
Listen for your team's name. - they push when tagging
Touch, never push
A light hand.
Self-check
The child reacts to 5 signals in a row correctly.
Fitness for this
Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.
This card trains reaction, speed, agility.
Basic is done when the coach says the child falls and grips safely.
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