The Ripple Effect

The Voice of TEAM  Number 24  Spring 2004

(The Spring issue of The Ripple Effect is only available online.)

Bag of Tricks: "Slow Tag" 

by Chris Cavert

Make a good size boundary to fit the size of your group. Ask everyone to get their own personal space within the boundary -- no one should be able to touch anyone at this point.

This is tag game. If you get tagged, you must sit down.

The leader will call, "Step".

Each player can take one step -- one foot in any direction (if the other foot moves from the spot where it is at, the player has to sit).

The leader calls "Step" again. Now the other foot can take a step in any direction. 

There will be some interesting tactics develop during this game. When you are sitting, you are not out of the game. You are an "Ankle Biter" and can still tag players who are still in, but you must be in the SITTING position (however this is defined at the beginning of the game), and you can't tag the player who tagged you.

Play until there are two players left -- or go for the dual. Whatever you have time for.