Red Light, Green Light is a reaction and control game where players advance only when the caller turns their back and says “green light.” If the caller turns and sees someone moving, that player must go back. This version adapts it to the court to develop body control, timing, and explosiveness in a fun, pressure-free format.
Objectives
- To strengthen the foundations of the stops and exits (with and without the ball). .
- Work the association between exits and stops.
Recommended age
- From 6 years onwards (Schools and Minibasket: category benjamin and fry).
Number of players
- From 3-4 players on.
- A person league.
- The greater the number of participants, the greater the difficulty for whom the league.
Recommended time
- Recommended time: 2-3 minutes per round.
Equipment and facilities
- A diaphanous space, a court in whole or half a pitch.
- You can play without material or with all participants with the ball (except who the league).
Initial layout and description of the Red Light, Green Light
The coach chooses a person to flirt and tells you in which wall be placed to sing.
All other participants are placed in the wall further away.
The game starts when the person that league will put face to the wall and sings:
‘1, 2, 3, hideout English
without moving hands or feet’.
While singing this rhyme, the participants will have to take to move as fast as possible with the aim of reaching to the wall where you are the person that league.
When the person that league finished singing this rhyme, will be given a half turn. The participants will have had to stop. If any of the participants is found by scrolling, shall be appointed by the person in the league and will have to go back to the start position.
After checking that no one (else) is moved, the person that league will return to sing.
The game ends when one of the participants reaches out and touches the wall where is the person that league.
Variants
- You can play in pairs:
- You have to move by giving it passes with the ball.
- You have to move:
- holding hands.
- with the laces intertwined.
- The participants have to move:
- with feet together.
- in an all fours (at four legs).
- Players can only take a certain number of boats.
- The players have to dribble to a certain height (the height of the knee, hip, shoulder, or above the head).
Note: All variants variants proposals are combinable.
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
