Turtle tag

by Dan Cottrell in Attack, Mini tag

Use this quick attack-defence-evasion game to improve your players’ awareness and speed. It can easily be developed to include other elements like self-organisation and decision making.

Put four attackers in the middle of the box and four defenders on each corner.

Shout out a colour, and the attackers need to run to that line without being tagged.
The defenders race off their cones to tag a player.
Repeat three times before changing teams over.

NOTES

Don’t swap a player to a defender if they are tagged. Give them all the four chances. Also, note which way they are facing to give them more chance next time.

DEVELOPMENTS

Give every attacker a ball.
If an attacker is tagged, they don’t carry a ball next time.
Play with one ball. The ball can be passed in any direction. When you shout the colour, the ball must be passed by a static player.
Change the square into a rectangle.
Have one of the defenders call out the colour to attack.
Have the attackers stand facing inwards.

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