Coaching Points
Stand on the rope with the balls of your feet, that is the padded part just behind your toes. Spread your feet about shoulder width apart, pulling up on the ends of the rope and pushing out with your feet. Keeping your feet wide will help you to stay balanced, and keeping the tension through the rope will help it to not escape as you jump and land.
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Bronze Challenge
Place two different coloured disc cones about 20 steps apart, stand facing your partner in the middle of the line. A third person calls one of the colours and the two centre players race to that colour. The winner is the person that gets to the cone first, jumping sidewards on the rope. Compete in 15 races to complete this challenge.
Silver Challenge
Gold Challenge
Place two different coloured disc cones about 20 steps apart, stand facing your partner in the middle of the line. A third person calls one of the colours and the two centre players race to that colour. The winner is the person that gets to the cone first, jumping sidewards on the rope. Win a streak of 3 races to complete this challenge.
Coaching Points
Place your middle three fingers in the centre of the cones and rest your thumb and pinky finger on the outer edge. As you lift the cones from by your knees to release the ball, try and rotate your pinky fingers up through the midline to thrust the ball up into the air. When catching; keep your eyes on the ball and be ready to move your body and hands to where the ball is going to land. Make a bowl out of the two cones under the ball as it falls and then close it back up to secure the ball once you have caught it.
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Bronze Challenge
Can you catch 10 in a row from 6 steps away?
Silver Challenge
Can you catch 15 in a row from 8 steps away?
Gold Challenge
Can you throw and catch for 90 seconds without dropping a single catch?
Coaching Points
This challenge is won and lost in the throw of the hoop. Try to get the hoop to fly flat in the air. If it is spinning or close to vertical, the hoop is sure to hit the body. Once you have thrown the hoop, stand in the tallest and straightest shape you can. To stay safe, nestle your head in between your arms so that it is protected.
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Bronze Challenge
Can you do this task with a large hoop?
Silver Challenge
Record yourself performing this skill, watch it back and think about what you did well and how you could improve.
Gold Challenge
Can you do three in a row without the hoop touching your body at all?