After a brief introduction, start off with each player having a ball at their feet. Instruct the players to dribble around the open area with their ball. Upon the coach's command of "Leave", the players are to "toe touch stop" their balls, yet continue on jogging around the open space, leaving their ball behind. Upon the coach's next command of "Get a Ball", the players are to quickly go after any soccer ball and continue dribbling again as before.
With each "Leave" command, the coach is to remove one or two balls from the set of standing balls in the playing area. This means there are now fewer balls then players and some players will not be able to get a ball after the "Get a Ball" command. With each "Get a Ball" command, the coach is to determine which players were not able to get possession of a ball. Make these players do something silly or funny as punishment. The players without a ball are instructed to just jog around the open area in the same manner as the players with a ball.
Continue the game as described above, removing additional
balls. The player(s) who is able to get the last remaining ball or two are
determine the winners.
The crabs begin the game within the rectangular area and the other players begin the game lined up along the short side of the rectangular area with a ball at their feet. The object of the game is for the players to dribble their ball from one side the rectangular to the other side without having their ball knocked out of bounds by the crabs.
Typically the coach begins the movement of the players across the playing area. Whenever a player has lost their ball out of bounds either directly or indirectly from the crabs, that player becomes a crab and joins the other crabs within the rectangular area. You may have to adjust the space to either get more success with dribbling or to enable the crabs to have more success at getting players.
The last players left with their balls at their feet after
a sequence of drillings across the rectangular area are determined the winners
and become the starting crabs for the next Crab Soccer game.
After several Crab Soccer games, move to Team Crab Soccer. Here we select two or more teams, depending upon the number of players. Ask one of the teams to be crabs and position themselves within the playing area. The remain players of the other team or teams must each get a ball at their feet and also position themselves within the playing area.
Upon coach's command to begin, the crabs are to begin kicking the balls out of bound off the players within the area. Whenever a player has their ball out of bounds either directly or indirectly from the crabs, that players is eliminated. The game continues until no players remain in the playing area with a ball or after a fix amount of time.
This is a timed competition and the coach must keep track of how long it takes a team to clear the area of players. Also notice that this competition may require a certain amount of team work in order to get the balls off the players as the number of players within the rectangular area gets small.
Give each team a chance to be the team of crabs. The winning team is the one that is able to clear the area of players in the smallest amount of time.
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to the total number of players into the center of the field to start the
game. Each team is to select a differ square that is their home
square. They are to being the game within their home
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Upon the coach's command to start, the players are to
collect balls into their home area. The first team to get one more ball
than the number of players on the team within their home square under control is
the winner.
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Warn Down: Homework Dribbling
Review the inside top roll and magic hop and encourage them
to practice this at home.