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Island Hopping

Score by passing to a teammate who receives with one foot in a hoop, and the islands move.

Game 20 min 8 to 10 players Cage Half pitch 2016 to 2017

Pass, Receive, Heads Up Lift each other

At a glance

  • 25 by 30 m, 4v4, with six hoops (islands) scattered about. One ball.
  • Score 1 by passing to a teammate who receives with one foot inside a hoop.
  • That teammate passes on. Defenders may not step into a hoop, and a team that wins the ball scores the same way.
  • Every 2 minutes the coach moves two hoops.
  • Progress 1: Take two hoops away, so there are four islands.
  • Progress 2: After winning the ball, make one pass before a pass to a hoop can score.

If it's not working: Add two more hoops, so there are eight islands.

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4v4 keep-ball with six hoop islands scattered about, all eight players drawn. Blue pass to a teammate who receives with one foot inside a hoop, which is a point, and that receiver passes straight on. Defenders may not step into a hoop.

Full details: set up, how to play, tips and age tweaks

Set up

  • Mark a 25 m by 30 m area.
  • Scatter 6 hoops inside.
  • Two teams of 4 wear bibs (5 each with 10 children).

4v4, or 5v5 with 10 children. 25 m by 30 m.

How to play

  • The team with the ball scores a point by passing to a teammate who receives with one foot in a hoop.
  • That teammate passes on.
  • A team that wins the ball scores the same way.
  • Every 2 minutes, the coach moves two islands.
  • Defenders cannot enter a hoop.

Keeping everyone moving

Everyone plays all the time, the islands move and spare balls restart play at once. Nobody is out.

Make it easier

  • Add two more hoops, so there are eight islands.
  • Defenders walk.

Make it harder, step by step

  1. Take two hoops away, so there are four islands.
  2. After winning the ball, make one pass before a pass to a hoop can score.

Three things to say

  • Look up for a free island.
  • Pass to the receiver's safe foot.
  • Receive and play on.

Words that work: "Brave pass to a far island!", "Great work to get free!", "You lifted the team with that call!"

Colts habit

Everyone must receive on an island before a team scores a bonus.

Both feet

A practice-foot pass to an island scores 2.

Heads up

Moving islands.

For your birth year

Pick a birth year to show the tweak for that group.

2018 to 2019
Try Touchdown! instead.
2016 to 2017
As written.

Safety: Hoops can slip. Use flat discs as islands on wet grass.

Keeping score: Each team counts island points in a game and tries to beat its own total.