Start your skipping series with forwards and backs. In this case, I am going to give a verbal command. Athletes can do this on their own by simply in their mind or using lines create a stimulus of which when they want to change direction.
Ready! Go! Back, forward, back, forward, back, forward! Good! Back, forward, back, forward, back! Good!
Now let us go to lateral. Pushing away this time, focus on control the body movement.
Ready and go! Change! Change! Change! Change! Change! Change! Relax! Ready and go! Change! Change! Change! Change! Stop!
Now let us take our two drills and put them into one. She is going to go to multiple directions, forward, backward, side to side, on my command. I am going to change this up, it is going to be complete stimulus variation to enlist that chaotic response of control that we have to have in performance. We started skipping then we are going to take it to a regular running motion.
Right, left, back, right, left, forward. Relax!
The ultimate skill that we are trying to improve is our running and our lateral movement like normal athletic movements. We use the skipping to teach specifics of pushing into the ground. Then we have to contrast by coming back and actually doing the running and the sliding or shuffling action.
And go forward, side, side, back, forward, side, side. Good!
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