Precision throwing game for 2 teams with 2-4 players each. First team to reach 11 points wins.
Category: accessory exercises
Categories
Briefings
Junior trainings are a good place to teach kids about etiquette, rules, tournament playing and other related topics. Briefings can be added as a separate module in the training session or combined with cooling down, stretching etc. Here are some suggestions.
Etiquette
- speed of play
- cheating
- lost and found discs
- disc golf spirit
- respecting the course
- stealing
Rules
- OBs
- mandos
- throwing order
- penalties
Competing
- how to sign up to tournaments
- how to playe during a competitive round
- scoring
Categories
Warm Up
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Warm up is an integral part of all training. Warm up can consist of dynamic warm up exercises, strength and conditioning, warm up games, running games and motor skills drills.
In junior training the games are always group favorites and work like a charm. You should still adopt some of the other types of warm up exercises there too.
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Some more ideas
- pendulum jumps
- twisting jumps
- windmills
- arm rotations
- cross legged running
- core rotations
- lunges
- side lunges
- hip rotations
- leg pendulum swings
- towel drives
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Here are some ideas for kids strength excercises.
Lower Body
- Skater jumps: lateral power for bracing
- Standing broad jumps
- Alternating leg bounds
- Single leg hopping
- squat, lunge, squat…
- reaction sprinting
Upper Body
- “Butterscotch”
- Everyone lay down all tumbled and grab each others hands or legs. The instructors try pull out pieces from the “butterscotch”. Whoever is gotten out of, joins pulling the others.
- Tug-of-war
Mid Section
- Crab toe
- Touch the opposite foot with your hand while in crab position.
- Side plank
- Top leg touches the floor in the front and behind the body.
- Elbo to the knee pushup
- The elbo touches the knee in pushup position.
Motor skill drills and training activities can improve a variety of abilities, including agility, coordination, strength, balance, and endurance. These improvements can lead to more efficient movement and make it easier to learn disc golf specific skills. Here are some examples.
- Cross step + cross hand
- When walking, touch the opposite side shoe with your hand. Behind and in front of the body alternating.
- T-A-X-I
- Form letters with arms and legs, jumping between letters.
- Motor skills obstacle course
- Build a course with jumps, skips, climbing, balancing etc.,
- Sideways X-step
- Practice disc golf x-step looking forward
- Moving forward and backward doing X-jumps
- “Skiing” with jumps
- Jump with moving the opposite hand and leg
- Alternating X-jumps and “skiing” jumps
