Game Skills and Strategies

You will be analyzing a team game of your choice based upon the movement skills, concepts and strategies used in the game.

Ideally, this will be a game that you will participate in during your 20 hours of activity, but if it is a game that you have played in the past that will also be fine.

Download the template Games Skills and Strategies and complete the blank form of the template.  An example is provided for you.

Sport Name

Ultimate Frisbee

Movement Skills

Provide one example of each movement skill for the game you selected, and a brief explanation/example of how it is used in the game.

Stability

When you jump to catch a moving frisbee, you need to maintain stability in the air so you can land on your feet, and avoid injury.

Locomotion

You need to run quickly to try to intercept an opponent thrown disk.

Manipulation

Throwing: You need to be able to throw the disk to be able to pass it to your teammates.

Movement Concepts

Provide one example of each movement concept for the game you selected, and a brief explanation/example of how it is used in the game.

Body Awareness

The forehand throw:  You need to learn to snap your wrist and throw the disk in a sidearm manner

Spatial Awareness

A field.  You need to keep yourself in the defined outlines of the field of play.

Effort Awareness

Freeing yourself from an opponent.  You need to change from a jog to a quick sprint to be able to provide some distance from your opponent to allow you to catch the disk.

Relationships

You need to have an understanding of where your teammates are in relation to the defense so that you can move to an open and accessible part of the field.

Movement Strategies

Name two strategies you could use in the selected game and a brief description of the strategy.

#1  Vert Stack

You align your players vertically so that you can then have them move into the open lanes in a relatively controlled manner to avoid collisions and create potentially linking throws.

#2 1,2 Kaboom

This is a quick strategy to try to get a quick score.  You pass 1-3 times amongst close teammates, while one teammate sprints to the end zone.  The idea is to catch the opponents watching the quick passes, and not the long run.