Football/Soccer Session (Beginner): Athletics - Hurdles

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Name:	Waheed Ramzan
City:	Oxford
Country:	United Kingdom
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Football/Soccer

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Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Jumping over obstacles

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Jumping over obstacles

Objectives

- Lean the right technique for jumping ove hurdles

Material Needed

- Hurdles

- Cones

- Hoops

Set Up

- In a square area, 20x20

- Different objects will be placed there (hurdles, mini hurdles, hoops)

- Students will be in pairs, while one is inside jumping the obstacles, the other element of the group will be outside counting how many obstacles is pair done.

- Each obstacle jumped will count as one point.

- Students should have 3/4 goes each.

Progressions

- Everytime they touch a obstacle or crash agaisnt another student ,they lose a point

Coaching Points

- Run tall, as if looking over the garden fence

- Pick their knees up and pull their toes back towards the knee (the knee cap should point forward down the lane of obstacles)

- Maintain an even stride length

- Count their stride pattern

- Make contact with the ground as quickly as possible after clearing the hurdle

Football/Soccer Session Plan Drill (Colour): Hurdling Technique

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Hurdling Technique

Set Up

- Four to six rows of hurdles or assorted obstacles in a grid (see diagram).

- Allow space between the rows for the studenst to run back to the start.

- Each row should vary in terms of the distance between the obstacles.

- An approximate distance between obstacles would be between 3 - 6 adult strides.

- Students take turns to run over the obstacles thinking about which leg they lead with.

- Studenst move up the hurdle grid when they can comfortably manage a three stride

pattern between the obstacles?

- Encourage studenst to take turns at being the coach and to look for areas of performance, which need practising.

Coaching Points

- A stride pattern is counted from the moment the lead leg touches the ground after clearing the hurdle until the same lead leg prepares for take off at the next obstacle.

- Odd number stride patterns are encouraged for sprint hurdles where the runner leads with the same lead leg throughout the race.

- Students sometimes find counting 3 strides difficult, because they tend to count the

flight phase as an extra stride. Encourage them to count “1, 2, 3, Over, 1, 2, 3, Over”

- Leading Leg

- Trailing Leg