Category: Defense Drills
Type: Drill
FLAG DRILL
The drill begins with all of your players lined up in 3-4 lines (enough to give the players room to swim) at around the middle of the pool. There are three (3) gestures that the players have to respond to. They are the hand direction (point your arm in the direction that your players will swim), and arms up in the air (this signifies the players to do vertical egg-beater kick). The drill starts with the coach blowing the whistle and doing one of the three hand gestures. The players are to respond by doing what is shown by the coach (swim in that direction or egg-beater kick). After some time, or not much time at all, blow another whistle showing another hand gesture (or the same one, to keep your players paying attention to the ref) All swimming should be done as heads-up freestyle, and vertical egg-beater kicks should be done with arms fully out of the water. The more direction changes, the harder the drill becomes. After the time of the drill is over, get your players to reset in their original positions, allow about 15-30 seconds, and begin the drill again. A set of 5 will be more than enough. The goals of this drill is to get the players aware of the referee and his whistle, to make the transition game faster on both offense and defense, as well as a general conditioning drill.
Submitted by: Coach Dave
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