Lesson 11 – 30 minutes
Learning outcomes
- Attempt or perform a beach relay baton change
Preparation
- Batons: flag/hose/pipe etc
- Marker cones
IMPORTANT
- If you are not confident coaching the skills in this lesson bring in a surf sports athlete or coach to help deliver the lesson
COACHING POINTS
BEACH RELAY BATON CHANGE
- Incoming runner holds baton up early
- Outgoing runner forms a ‘V’ with hands and looks through ‘V’ at the baton
- Focus only on the baton, not on other teams or competitors
- Take baton as close to the changeover line as possible
Demonstrate
- Use a participant to help you with this demonstration.
- Tell them you will talk them through the demonstration as it happens.
- Demonstrate the baton change with the participant while you talk the participants through the technique.
Activity 1
- Set up a beach sprint area approximately 30-40 metres long with cones on the start and finish line to mark the lanes for teams to stand behind.
- Divide the participants into an even number of teams so there is a minimum of 4 participants per team and allocate them to cones on the start and finish line.
- Ask the teams on the start line to pick a starter to remain on the start line while the others stand back 5m.
- Conduct a relay, having all participants in the team run through it once.
- Discuss any issues that you may have seen in the first exercise.
- Repeat the relay 4 or 5 times
- Mix up the relays by making them skip, hop or jump etc.
- Handicap teams that keep winning by making their track distance longer.
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