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Associated sport: Diving
Indoor-friendly: No
Pool-friendly: No

Game description

A relay race using various diving positions. (Play in teams of 6–8.)

What you need (setting up)

• An flat, obstacle free indoor or outdoor playing area 20 metres in length.
• 4 x cones spaced 5 metres apart for each team.

What to do

• Teams of 6–8 players line up behind their starting cones.
• When the coach says 'Go!', the first player runs out to their first cone and sits in a tuck position.
• The second player runs around the first player to the second cone and sits in an open or closed pike position.
• The third player runs around the first two players to the third cone and stands in the straight position. When their hands are raised into a T position this is the signal for the fourth player to begin.
• The fourth player weaves around the three players holding the  diving positions and back to take the place of the player holding the ‘tuck’.
• The player holding the ‘tuck’ takes the place of the player holding the ‘pike’.
• The player holding the ‘pike' takes the place of the player holding the ‘straight position’, who then runs to the end of the line. 
• The game finishes when all players have had a turn at each of the positions.

Change it

• Players assume the same position and the team goes through the game 3 times until all players have held each position at each location.
• Reduce or extend the running distance between cones.

Safety

• Do not bounce in any position.
• Be careful running around those holding a position.

Ask the players

• What do you have to remember to do in the tuck position?
• What do you have to remember to do in the pike position?
• What do you have to remember to do in the standing position?