Skill: LISTENING
Drill: Ears On
Equipment needed: 2 rings per line
Instructors needed: 1 per Line
Description: The students will practice having good LISTENING by demonstrating their ability to wait their turn and stay focused on listening for their number, if they lose focus they may miss a point. This will challenge them socially by requiring them to stay focused on their instructor and not their friends I this drill.
Step 1
Divide your students into lines
Step 2 – Setting Up the Drill:
The students on each line will sit across the mat from each other.
Step 3 – Explain the Rules:
  • They will all be given a partner and a number their partner will share that number.
  • Once all the students all know their numbers, the instructor will call the students in order, for round 1.
  • When the students number is called, they must run to their team’s ring in the middle of the mat.
  • The 1st person to sit in their ring gets a point.
  • Once everyone has been called the instructor can mix the number up and call them again.
Step 4 – Takeaways:
  • Sit on bottom so that its fair
  • Listen for your number so that you can get a point
  • Try not to mess with your friends as you sit with them.
Step 5
  • Continue until each student has 2-3 turns.
 
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