Lesson video

Hi, it's Mr. Roberts, again.

For lesson two of year five athletics.

And the theme of this lesson will be around the slinging action of throwing.

So we're going to do three parts of the lesson.

The first part is going to be a up, and that's going to be just looking at reactive jumping.

Then the main part of the lesson will be around flying with a slinging action, and I'm going to challenge you.

So, for that we need to go outside and we need to find a lot of space in an ideal world.

And then we're going to finish off with a cool-down, and the cool-down will be some gentle stretching.

So, have fun.

Hope you make loads of progress, and then let's get on with it.

Okay, can I just remind you that for athletics lessons, you must have a grownup with you.

Maybe you could even get them to join in.

You need to make sure the lesson takes place in a space that's big enough for you to run around it.

That should really be outside.

If you can find an outside space.

Make sure you've got enough space for you to work safely in, especially above your head.

Use non-slip trainers on your feet.

Make sure the floor is not slippy.

And wear comfy clothing, and have your hair tied up if you've got long hair and remove all jewellery, and that applies for all of our athletics lessons.

Okay, so in this lesson, we've got two main parts.

The first part is the warmup.

And for that, we just need one simple piece of equipment, and that is a swimming pool noodle.

And if you haven't got a swimming pool noodle then what you could use is a rolled up towel.

Or you could simply just draw a line on the floor with chalk.

The second part of the lesson is the throwing session.

And for that, we need to have some targets, so that could be anything from boxes, hoops, buckets, shoe boxes, toys, and we need something to throw.

And what, for that, we just need one item, but it must be something which has got a little bit of weight to it.

And it could be a rubber ring, if you've got one.

Or it could be a bean bag, or it could be a ball.

And that's all we need for today's lesson.

We've got three parts to the lesson today.

The first part is the warmup and that is going to involve what we call a speed-bounce activity.

The main parts of the lesson is the throwing lesson and we're actually going to play throwing golf or throlf, as some people call it.

And that's a game which is going to challenge you to use your swinging action, but to use it accurately.

And then we're going to finish off with some stretching to cool-down, and that's going to be our cool-down.

Okay, in today's lesson, we've got two key words.

The first key word is sling, and sling is the actual style of throwing that we're going to be focusing on in the main part of the lesson.

And I'll explain more about that when we come to do that, back section.

And the second keyword is hydration, and hydration is where you drink water to help with your recovery as you're doing physical activity.

And what I want you to do in this lesson, and in all athletics lessons is just have a bottle of water with you.

And every time you have a little recovery or every time you stop working, and before you come back to the video, is have some drink.

Have a few mouthfuls of water to help with your recovery.

That's called hydration, okay.

Okay, so the first part of the lesson is the speed-bounce.

And the speed bounce is a jumping activity.

It's a reaction activity, where you're simply jumping back and forward over the obstacle, you're going to put on the floor.

And that could be the swimming pool noodle, which I mentioned earlier.

Or it could be the rolled up towel, or it could be just a line drawn on the ground.

And the way this activity works, is you stand with two feet together on one side of the noodle, put your hands out to the side to give yourself some balance, and you're going to jump back and forward under control over this noodle.

And so it's called a speed-bounce.

And I will show you a video of a little boy demonstrating in a couple of minutes.

But the objective is to have control, keep your back straight.

And you're going to jump back and forward.

Initially, I just want to have a little practise and get good at it.

So start off, just doing two jumps.

Every time you're on the air, that's one bounce.

So, back to where you started from, then do four in a row, then do six in a row, eight in a row and then finish off with 10 in a row.

What I want you to do is, pause the video, have a practise, and when you're ready, and you've had a drink, so you've hydrated, come back to the video, and we can try and make it a little bit more challenging.

Well done, so you've got the technique, and you're good at it now.

So now we're going to try and make it a little bit more interesting, and a little bit more challenging.

On your challenge is you're going to do as many bounces as you can in 20 seconds.

So the adult that's with you is going to do the counting, and they're going to time you for 20 seconds.

And every time you're in the air, that's one bounce.

And my challenge to you is to see if you can do more than 20 bounces in 20 seconds.

So that'd be one a second, obviously.

I want to have a go for 20 seconds, then have a rest and recovery, have a little bit of water, so you're hydrating, and then do it again.

And you're going to do it three times in total.

So pause the video, go and see how you get on.

And when you've had your goals and you can do as many as you want, but I'm going to say, a minimum of three attempts.

So that'd be a minute in total.

So it's three times 20 seconds.

When you're ready, come back to the video and we can move on with the main part of the lesson.

Okay, so the main part of the lesson, is the throwing session.

And this is called, throlf, or throwing golf.

And it's quite easy to set up.

And what you're going to do, is you're going to put down five or six targets on the ground.

And on that video, I've just put down three to show how simple it is.

But it should be a lot more complicated than I've made it.

So I want you to try and make the distances a little bit further away than my demonstration is.

And they're going to be different types of distance.

You might put one about 10 metres away.

You might put one 20 metres away.

If you've got enough space, or maybe you could go to the local park or go to a field, and do a third one around 15 metres away in different directions.

And you're going to be throwing like in a game of golf, from the start line or the T, you're going to throw to the first target.

And you're going to see how many throws it takes you to reach that target.

So you throw the first one, where it lands, that's where you throw for the next attempt.

And you keep going until you hit your target, and keep that total.

Then you go back to the start line or the throwing line, or the T as it would be called in golf.

And then you do the second one.

And then the third one.

Now, my demonstration is really, really simple.

We've deliberately made it simple.

So you can see all of the targets in one go.

But you can make it a little bit more interesting or a little bit more challenging than that.

If you've got the space available to you.

Okay, so go and set it up, and then come back to the video, and we can talk about how to actually do the activity.

Okay, so we'd need to have some top tips or some teaching points to make this really good, to make your throwing more effective.

So remember, it's a slinging action.

And we start off, we must look towards the target.

We have our ball, a bean bag or a hoop or whatever it is that you're going to throw in our best hands.

So I'm right-handed, so it'd be in my right hand and I have my left foot forward, and I'm pointing towards the target with my left hand.

Start off with the ball quite low.

And you're going to swing the ball past your hip, towards the target, and you're going to release it high.

So you're going from a low to a high position.

And as you release it, you're reaching towards that target.

And you're trying to throw it with some height, to come down as close to the target as possible.

Okay, and that's called a slinging action.

Okay, so you've set up your targets, and there are varying distances from your start line, or your T, as they call it in golf.

So you're going to attempt to do the first one.

And it's just like golf.

You throw the ball with that slinging action, you release high, you start off low into swinging action past your hip, and remain balanced after you released it.

And wherever it lands, that's where you have your next throw from.

And you keep going until you actually get it onto the target, and it could be a bucket.

It could be a Skittle.

It could be a hoop.

It's your choice.

And you've set up, I've suggested five or six targets, even though I only had three on my video, but you're going to set up a variety of different targets at different distances away from the T.

And you're going to try and do them all.

So, you've done the first one.

You walk back to the start line and then you go for the second one and you see how many throws it had, it takes you to reach that target.

You return to the start line, the T, and then you do the third one.

And so on until you've done all of your targets.

Have as many goes as you want.

Have a go at doing all five or six targets and then go again, have a practise and see if you can get your score down.

When you're happy, and you've had lots of goes, and you think that you are ready for a new challenge, come back to the video and then we can see what we can do to make it more challenging.

Okay, so you've done really well and you've been practising , and you've done it on these relatively simple targets.

Now we can think about what could we do to make it a little bit more challenging? So the first thing you could do, is you could vary the distance.

So you could have some of the targets a lot further away than some of the others, just like on a golf course.

Make some of the targets on different heights.

So you could put one on a chair, you could mark one on a tree or probably on a fence, but they don't have to be on the same height.

And it certainly don't have to be on the floor and we could use different types of ball or different types of throwing implement.

So you've been maybe throwing with a bean bag.

You could throw maybe a tennis ball.

Maybe something even bigger, maybe throw a football.

But have different types of throwing implement to make it more challenging.

So, pause the video, and go and have a little go at making it more challenging in those three ways I've shown you.

Have a practise.

See if you can get your scores down, and see if you can become really effective.

And when you're ready, come back to the video and we can see how we get on.

Hey, well done.

So you've done really well, at your throwing golf for your throlf session.

So I've got a question for you.

What sports do you think would use that type of throw, or transfer that type of throw into other types of skill? And that's got a transfer of skill.

So there are a variety of different sports, not just athletics that would use a sling action.

Have a think, and see what you can come up with.

Right, so what sports did you come up with? I've got a few, just to give you some examples of what I'm thinking.

The first one could be something like ten-pin bowling, where you actually bowl the ball, but it's with a slinging action.

The second one could be rounders.

Rounders, it's actually where the bowler pitches the ball to the batter, that's a slinging action.

And where the batter actually hits the ball, that's also a slinging action.

Although the opposite, they don't let go of the bat.

How about fishing? Where you cast your hook or cast your bait into the water.

That's a slinging action.

Skimming a stone across a lake or go to the seaside where you skim a stone.

And also tennis where you hit the ball with forehand or backhand, that's a sling action.

They are all slinging actions, which are transferring into their respective sports.

And that's called the transfer of skill.

Can you think of any others? Did you come up with some better examples of my five? I hope you did, well done.

You've done really well with the throwing part of the lesson.

Pause the video, go and get yourself a drink.

And when you're ready, come back to the video and we can move on with our cool-down.

Okay, so the next thing we have to do is a cool-down.

And a cool-down is a stretching activity.

It's got three simple stretches for you to do.

The first one is a toe stretch.

And what you're going to do is you're going to stand with your feet together, lock your thumbs together and you're going to make a pencil shape.

So you can be very, very tall, arms up towards the sky, back straight, and you get to hold it of a five seconds.

Then you're going to have a rest.

Then you're going to go into the second stretch, which is a wall shape.

And what you're going to do on this one, is you're going to do a star shape, feet wide apart, arms wide apart and a big star shape, with your back straight again.

Hold for five seconds, hold your breath for five seconds.

And the third stretch is a ball stretch.

And the ball stretch is where you scrunch yourself up really, really small.

You can either do it standing up as you can see on the photograph of a little boy doing it, where you just go down and touch your toes and tuck your chin in.

Or you might find it easy to sit down, pull your knees up to your chest, tuck your chin in and make yourself very, very small.

And again, hold for five seconds.

Hold your breath for five seconds.

And you're going to repeat each of those three stretches three times.

So that's nine stretches in total.

After you've done the stretches, come back to the video, having had a drink and we can just finish off the lesson with a couple of questions and a couple of ideas for next time.

Okay, so you've done a really good lesson today, and you've done three principle activities.

The first activity was the warmup, and the warmup was a speed-bounce.

The main part of the lesson was a throwing activity where you looked at the slinging action, and you were actually playing a game of throwing golf, where you're throwing for accuracy over varying distances.

And then we did a cool-down, which was some simple stretching.

Well done, you've done a really good effort.

I've now got a question for you.

And I want you to think about what are the take homes? What are the key teaching points or the top tips for someone who's actually going to throw with a slinging action for accuracy? I want you to think about what would you think are the main teaching points? If you're going to teach someone else to throw and they're going to throw accurately.

So you can come up with four or five different good teaching points.

Okay, so you've come up with some top tips, or some teaching points, or some take homes.

So these are my take homes.

The first top tip would be to ensure that you're focusing on the target all the time.

And what I want you to do is always encourage anyone who's throwing to point towards the target within non throwing hands.

So I'm right handed and I will point towards the target with my left hand.

And my left hip and my left foot would also be pointing towards the target.

So, I'm sideways onto the target.

The second top tip is to ensure that you go from a low to a high position.

So I start off holding my bean bag in my right hand, quite low down, but when I release it, I want to release very, very high.

So it goes from a low to a high position.

My third top tip will be to reach toward the target as I release the bean bag.

And my fourth top tip would be to stay in a balanced position after I've let go of the ball or the bean bag.

So they're my top tips or my take homes.

How did they compare with yours? Did you have any others? Anyway, you've done very well in today's lesson.

You did a really good warmup.

You did a really good throwing lesson with some, with slinging action.

And it was around the principles of a game of golf.

And then we finished up with a good stretch using the toe, the wall and the ball stretches.

Excellent stuff, and I look forward to catching up with you in our next lesson.

Well done, everybody.