The Burnout Tag is a traditional tag-and-throw game in which players try to hit opponents with a soft ball to eliminate them from play. While not strictly a basketball drill, it’s often adapted to encourage mobility, throwing accuracy, agility, and group dynamics in warm-ups or end-of-session activities. The simplicity and excitement make it a favorite across all ages.
Objectives
- Automate the Pot.
- Work the different heights of Pot
- Work changes of direction and pace
- To dissociate the look of the ball.
Contents
- Boat
- Changes of hand
- Concentration
- Dissociation oculo-manual
- Changes of address
- Change of pace
- Relay
Recommended age
- From 8 years onwards (Minibasket: categories, benjamin and fry).
Number of players
- From 2 players on.
- It is recommended for groups of up to 20 people but you can do more (the only thing to keep in mind is the time of each round and the waiting times for the team tracker).
Recommended time
- Minimum do two rounds for both teams to play two different roles (persecuted and persecutors).
- Then if you make more rounds and is a tie in any round, you can make a third or break the tie is picking the best time in the first two rounds.
- The duration of each round varies in function;
- Total number of players.
- Space in which it is played.
Equipment and facilities
- Minimum 1 ball to the team that catches.
- If we have a ball per person, much better.
- The recommended action to play a half-court, although you could play on the court in whole or in a diaphanous space always and when we differentiate the limits.
Initial layout and description of the Burnout Tag
The team that catches a long line india and comes back from the perimeter of the circle in the center. The team that hunted will be located within the triple of that same mid-court (in case of out of bounds, it shall be deemed that you have been caught). The goal of the team tracker is to do it in the shortest possible time, and the goal of the team that hunted it last as long as possible.
Starts the round and the first person on the team persecutor leaves dropping the ball. You have to tag another person on the other team (with touch is sufficient). The person caught will come out of your bottom line (and I encourage you to throw away to encourage the practice -games delete often do not like it, because it may be boring for the first few that have been caught-but it is also the grace to continue playing). The person that got runs back and hits the hand with the next person in line for the relay.
Stops the stopwatch when the last person has been caught.
Tip: it is advisable to invite the teams to reflect on what will be the order of departure of the team’s players tracker and about who is best to catch it first and who is better to leave to the end.
Note: in case of being odd, we’ll repeat a person the team with fewer players (when the role of the team is the persecutor, that person will have a life and if it is when the role of the computer to be the persecutor and then shall he depart twice in the same round).It may occur that a person take long to get another and run the risk of busting the time at the computer. In this case, we can give the baton to not harming the computer.
Variants of the Burnout Tag
- Dribble with the hand non-dominant.
- You can get the option to attack the tracker. The attacker must dribble the ball to catch. It may happen that one person on the team chased ‘from hosing’ the pot to the person that is caught, leaving him momentarily out of the game for not having the ball dropped to be able to grasp.
- Vary the game space. When there are only a few you can restrict the play area within the triple within the restricted area of 3 seconds.
- Another option is to change seconds by boats of the person who is caught.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
