;acrosse Session plan

Lacrosse Passing and Distribution:

The group consisted of:

Ashley Marsden (Me), Jonathan Pennington and Jared Brooks.

A joint action by a group of people, in which each person subordinates his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group.

This is the plan we used for our groups assessed session:

We started off with the main a fun team based game:

We would start off with all the participants having a lacrosse stick, before splitting them into four teams, who will be situated behind a coned zone in the four corners, when instructed all four teams will run into the middle and collect their teams colour of bean-bag the first team back wins. This competitive activity will have them motivated for the session straight away, whilst in this fun context they will learn about manipulating the stick, scooping the bean-bag and holding the stick. The objective is to collect all the teams corresponding coloured bean bags before the other teams.

Once the participants master the above drill, we then plan to place a more competitive spin on the activity by, allowing the teams to collect any bean bag regardless of colour the winning team will have the most bean bags, this will progress the athletes as they have to work and think much quicker.

The next drill we hope to implement is a communication and co-ordination related game that requires, Scooping the ball up and placing the ball into a team mate’s lacrosse stick, then you can learn the fundamental movements required to pass the ball and again how to manipulate the lacrosse stick.

Once they grasped this we will then progress the activity again, we would have the participants perform simple passes on the floor rolling the ball to another team mate, in order to again learn to manipulate the stick, and learn about weighting and power required, as well as the skill of scooping up the ball.

In order to progress this further I would then emulate the last drill, of passing to a partner but in order to progress the drill I would add movement into the drill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

As shown by the simple diagram above the drill consists, of four participants in the middle indicated by the four way arrow, and four people on the outside (the four blue dots) all they have to do in a clock wise motion is pass the ball to each of the four players in the middle whilst moving in a clockwise motion. This will progress the drill as they now have to consider movement, special awareness of the other participants and weighting and power of the ball.

A further progression, would be to have a small passing match, where the participants would have to make a selected number of passes to their team mates before shooting such as five passes, to encourage, team work, movement and distribution.

Contingency plan:

An alternative drill could be to have the participants split into two equal teams and in their selected zone complete five passes (or more), before moving onto the next zone the aim of the game is to catch the other team by playing the passes as quickly yet accurately and move to the next zone in a clockwise motion as shown below; To catch the other team the following is required; team work, accurate and concise passes.

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This is shown in the basic diagram below.

http://www.ndt-ed.org/TeachingResources/ClassroomTips/Teamwork.htm