Animal Moves Relay

Objective

• Develop the running, jumping, hopping and landing that everything else is built on

Set-up and how it runs

• Set two lines of cones 12 yards apart. Split into teams of three or four behind the first line.
• Call an animal: bear (hands and feet), crab (on your back), frog (two-footed jumps), flamingo (hop on one leg), cheetah (sprint).
• First player travels to the far line as that animal, runs back normally and tags the next.
• Run four or five rounds with a rest between each.
• No ball at all in the first rounds — this one is about the body.

Equipment

• 8 cones

Coaching points

• Land softly, with bent knees
• Hop on both legs across the round, not just the strong one
• Big arms when you sprint
• Finish the movement properly rather than racing through it

Progressions

• Dribble a ball on the way back
• Two animals per leg — one out, one back

What it develops

Psychosocial

Cooperation

Physical

Basic motor skills