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Basketball: Grip Game

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Each player has a basketball. At the end of each baseline put a football goal. The coach has a volleyball. Each player must hold his or her basketball with both hands (fingertips). The game starts in the central circle. The coach bounces the volleyball and players must hit the volleyball with the basketball and try to score a goal.

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Rules:

If the player looses their basketball or kicks the volleyball, the opposite team gets possession of the volleyball.

To restart the game the player can bounce the volleyball and must hit it with their basketball.

Penalty: If the goalkeeper or player inside the goal area kicks volleyball or loses their basketball the opposite team has a penalty. Only the shooter and the goalkeeper can be in the area. Player needs to bounce the volleyball and hit it with the basketball.

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Line Up:

Teams of 4-6 players with one ball. Players line up with their backs to the court and the gaps between the players are length of their hands. The first player in line has a ball. On the signal from the coach, the player with the ball hands it to the second player over the head and runs to the end of the line. The second player hands the ball to the third player under the legs and runs to the end of the line and continues over and under. The winner is the team who comes first to finish line.
Rules:
--Players cannot move their feet when they hand off the ball.
--If the ball drops to the floor, they must start again from starting point.

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Basketball Bulldog:

White Player 1 is 'On'

Blue Players 1 to 8 try to dribble their basketballs to the opposite line.

Any players that the white player touches are 'caught' and will be 'On' with white player 1.

The players that make it to the other side continue until there is one winner.

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Stuck in the Mud:

All players have a ball each.

The catchers have to try and touch one of the players without bibs. If they succeed in doing so then that person has to stand still and put their ball on their head.

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