The Color Reaction Game is a fun, high-attention warm-up where players must react quickly to color-based signals assigned to specific actions (e.g., sprint, dribble, shoot). It enhances cognitive response, decision-making under pressure, and readiness at the start of a training session. Color cues can be adapted to suit age, focus, or skill level.
Objectives
- Automate the pot.
- Improve the coordination dynamics.
- To dissociate the look of the ball.
Recommended age
- From 6 years onwards (School and Minibasket: categories pre-benjamin, benjamin, and fry).
Number of players
- From 1 players forward.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 5-6 min.
Equipment and facilities
- 1 Basketball player.
- A diaphanous space or a Basketball court (whole or half, is indifferent).
Initial layout and description of the Color Reaction Game
All the participants across the space.
The game is perceptual and the most important thing is to not be the last. The Coach will say a color in a loud voice, and the players, bouncing the ball, they must see it and go to touch the object or surface that has that color. When you say a color, it is likely that there are several objects or surfaces that color.
Make sure that the color is the one who has been appointed. It’s fun to look for colors that are difficult to locate.
You can also name the colors which will take the participants.
The last to touch the color is in evidence , nothing happens and it continues to play (in the categories of 12 years and older can be put in a ‘mini-punishment’ physical simple to make -it may be worth a burpee or a downswing.
Note: it Is important that in between color and colour, let a moment of 10-15 seconds for the participants looking at the environment to locate the colors.
Variants
- Dribble with the hand non-dominant.
- Bounce to a specific height (at the height of the knee, hip, shoulder, at the height of the head, above the head, etc…).
- You can name shapes.
- You can combine shapes and colors.
- Can you name the colors in English.
- Can be combined with the game of Numbers.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
