Skill: RETENTION
Drill: Grab the Pad
Equipment needed: Multiple Different Pads
Instructors needed: Multiple to Monitor
Description: The students will practice having good RETENTION by demonstrating their ability their ability to understand how to hold pads for any strike or kick correctly. This will challenge the students mentally by requiring them to have a vast knowledge on how to hold each pad.
Step 1
Have students find a partner.
Step 2 – Setting Up the Drill:
The 1st partnership will stand up and face all the pads laid out in-front of them.
Step 3 – Explain the Rules:
  • When the instructor yells a technique, the partnership must run down to the pads.
  • One partner must choose the correct pad for the technique then they must count 10 reps for their partner.
  • The 1st team to finish will earn a point for their team.
Step 4 – Takeaways:
  • Move fast to the pads.
  • Hit the pad hard on each rep.
  • Be a good leader as you guys go through the reps.
Step 5
  • Continue until each student has 2 turns.
 
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