Side+Gallop

Introduction: Year 1 Mastery: Year 4 Introductory Focus Components
 * __SIDE GALLOP __**
 * = **Global** ||||||= **Legs** ||||= **Head and Trunk** ||
 * **Does it look right?** || 1. Smooth rhythmical movement. || 2. Brief period where both feet are off the ground. || 3. Weight on the balls of the feet. || 4. Hips and shoulders point to the front. || 5. Head stable, eyes focused forward or in the direction of travel.  ||

**Equipment - **A flat, open area approximately 15 metres long. **Observation position - **To the front. **Instruction - **"Side gallop from one end to the other and return."



__**Activities**__


 * Man Overboard **
 * Equipment |||| Cones - 4 per group, bench, rope - 1 per group ||
 * Space |||| Open space with a boundary ||
 * Formation |||| <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Team of four ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructions || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Students side gallop from one island (cone) to another in a zigzag manner. When a student hits the beach (rope), s/he yells "land ho!" so that another student can move through the island maze. || [[image:pdhpe_-_side_gallop2.jpg]] ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Variation |||| <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Have a collection of supplies (balls, beanbags, etc.)that have to be transported from the ship to the beach. Which ever team finishes first wins. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Sitting Ducks **
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Equipment || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Weapons: As many nerf balls or very soft foam balls as you have; Supplies: a collection of small balls, bean bags etc; Pond: hoop ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Space || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Flat ground, with a wall behind. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Formation || <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">In teams, how many and of what size depends on how many nerf balls, and well positioned walls you have. ||


 * **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Instructions **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> One team are the ducks and the other team the hunters. By side galloping, the ducks have to transport the supplies one at a time from one line, across the target zone to the pond on the other side. (Each child may carry only one object at a time, but more than one can cross the zone at any one time.) Then run around the hunters back to the supplies and take another across. The hunters try to stop them by throwing nerf balls at them. If a duck is hit, they have to gallop back to the supplies and start again. Ducks can not be stopped by balls bouncing off the wall behind and hitting them. || ||