How to do Combo Games and Drills

In this final section we will use combinations of various tools to share even more ways to add fun and variety to training sessions. And again, like in the other sections just use a leveled surface like a gym floor, tennis court, playground, or home driveway.

Let's start this session with an agility course that is guaranteed to help young athletes develop the agility and quickness required for any movement based sport. Whether it be basketball, soccer, tennis, football, baseball or any of a dozen other options. Here we see a young athlete moving through and around, cones, spots, lines, and ladders.

Just establish a starting point and a finish line, then use a whistle and a timer and watch the fun begin. Using ladders and cones together as relay race tools combine the linear skill building of footwork ladders with the circular agility require for quick stepping around cones. Here we have created a simple relay race course by setting up a starting point marked with cones, a footwork leather to run through, and then several cones to zig-zag through before turning around to tag a teammate. Options are unlimited with variations including cone placement and the type of footwork pattern used to move through the ladder. Just imagine, several teenage performing the same exercise side by side for a high energy group workout. Great job!

Here is another idea that uses spots and lines, another pair of common tools. Here we see our young athletes paired up as a team. From a designated starting point each child runs through the lines in one of the footwork pattern, such as triplets that was demonstrated earlier in this DVD. Then they move through the spots in a hop-scotch pattern, turn around at the end and then run back the same way they came to tag their partner.


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