Skill: Perseverance
Drill: Pyramid
Equipment needed: None
Instructors needed: A few to monitor
Description: The students will work on their perseverance by working as a team to not give up. They must try to keep up if they fall behind to show great perseverance.
Teaching SKILLZ:
INTRINSIC MOTIVATION – The instructor can as the students if they want a blackbelt challenge, and if they want to be strong like a blackbelt, then they will do one more round with more reps. This will motivate the students to get stronger, since they have a common goal of getting a blackbelt one day and doing five more will help them get there.
Brain SKILLZ:
WORKING MEMORY – The students must be able to remember what number they are on and what number is next as they are running and doing their exercises. This works on holding onto information while completing a task, as the counting style is different so it can be easy to mess up or forget.
Step 1
Divide your students into two lines.
Step 2 – Setting Up the Drill:
Each line will be facing each other, on opposite sides of the mat.
Step 3 – Explain the Rules:
  • The instructor will call the name of an exercise, for example: squat jumps.
  • The students will run to the middle of the mat and perform 5 reps by the instructor’s count, then run back to their side.
  • Then they will run back to the middle and perform 4 reps by instructor’s count, then run back.
  • Continue for 3 reps, 2, then 1.
  • When finished they must sit and say “finished sir/ma’am” as a team.
Step 4 – Takeaways:
  • Do each exercise better than your opponent.
  • Give 100% on each rep you do.
  • Don’t stop or lose technique in your exercise.
Step 5
  • Continue for a few different exercises.
 
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