Precision throwing game for 2 teams with 2-4 players each.
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Two players compete with each other. The game has gotten popular the last couple of years also on social networks.
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
Precision throwing game for 2-4 players. Practice approach shot precision.
Approaching game 3-6 players per team for 10 to 20 min.
Relay game for 2 teams with 3 players each. 3-5 min fast paced running game. Suitable for non-beginner players with good situational awareness
Simple putting game for 2 to 4 players. 5-10 minutes of fun and mildly competitive putting practice.
The game does not have a clear end point or overall winners. The idea is that it adapts to everyone’s putting level until it is an even competition, and everyone’s team will eventually win a round.
