In Guard The Pin, offensive and defensive teams attempt to outplay each other. Offensive players work together to try to hit a pin that the defensive players are guarding, learning to read the ball and shift their position along the way.
Players stand in a circle formation outside a ring of cones. A hoop is placed in the centre of the circle with a pin or large cone standing inside it.
Offensive players work together to knock over the pin with a thrown ball. Defensive players work together to keep it standing.
All throws should be directed downwards.
Builds allow you to increase the game's complexity, one layer at a time.
All players stand in a circle formation. They are given a ball which they have to pass around to each other.
Players may not pass the ball to the players to their immediate left or right.
The group must find a passing pattern that allows every player to touch the ball without breaking the no passing to your neighbours rule.
Have the group run their pattern two or three times before moving on. The pattern needs to be automatic before the next build adds more balls to it.
Players continue to pass the ball in the pattern they developed in Build One. The teacher then adds additional balls to the game.
The group's challenge is to see how many balls they can keep moving without dropping any, and without any player ever having more than one ball in hand.
The teacher places a hoop in the middle of the circle. One player is selected to be the target and another is selected to be the guard.
The target player must stand with both feet in the hoop.
The group's challenge is to complete a pass to the target player without the guard intercepting the ball. If a pass is completed, the target player returns to the circle and the guard becomes the new target player.
This is the build where the learning target really shows up. Prompt the guard to notice where the ball is and where the target is, and to position themselves between the two.
The same rules as the previous build apply, except that the target player is replaced by a pin which the guard must defend.
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