Year 9 - Physical education
Solutions to tactical challenges
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies in contact sports
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Unit Summary
This unit explores ways to adapt tactics and strategies in full-contact sports like rugby. Pupils will learn how to respond to specific types of breakdown such as free kicks, rucks, mauls and scrums as they seek solutions to gain territory, maintain momentum and counterattack.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to solve problems and tactical team challenges in response to significant rule changes to play a different contact game.
Key Notes
- Move: a fast chase uses a low body position and quick directional changes around the turning pole.
- Move: tagging needs controlled movement with a light hand touch to stay safe and accurate.
- Think: choose the right moment and best teammate to pass the chase for a quicker tag of the runner.
- Feel: not giving up when you're tired or get tagged shows determination and helps you grow as a player.
- Connect: treating others with honesty and compassion helps ensure an enjoyable game for all.
Vocabulary To Learn
- Kho kho: a team game from India where players run and chase to tag opponents while using teamwork, speed and quick direction changes
- chaser: a player who starts seated and takes turns chasing/tagging runners
- turning pole: the pole at each end used by chasers to legally change direction
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think you can constantly change directions when chasing.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: a fast chase uses a low body position and quick directional changes around the turning pole. Move: tagging needs controlled movement with a light hand touch to stay safe and accurate.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Kho kho'
a team game from India where players run and chase to tag opponents while using teamwork, speed and quick direction changes.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think you can constantly change directions when chasing. Correction: Remind pupils that in Kho Kho, chasers cannot change direction freely. They must run around a turning pole to change direction. Turning mid-court is a foul.
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