GAME OF THE MONTH
RING TOSS
This game encourages student-athletes to rely on the fundamental skill of bike-body separation to achieve a goal – landing a bike tube or ring on a target, while inadvertently strengthening timing and coordination on the bike – a skill used often in the feed zone!
This game is customizable to suit all levels of riders, and it can be a super fun addition to a short course or practice station. This game also serves as a great way to assess your student-athletes’ skills on the bike before riding trails. Get the whole team involved with a ring toss relay, and make sure to jump in for the fun, coach!
Where: Open space
Objective: I can have fun. I can build timing and coordination skills.
101 Skills: Braking, Bike-Body Separation
202 Skills: Ratcheting
Setup: Place a traffic cone and create a line with rope, hose, or small cones about 12’ away. Riders ride parallel to the line and throw the inner tube over the line onto the cone.
Rules: Toss an inner tube onto a traffic cone while riding past at a distance.
Progression: Add multiple cones with different values and different distances away from the rider line. Add smaller or larger tubes worth different values. Create teams and have them accumulate points. The first to earn a certain amount of points wins.
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