Warm-up · U10 drill · ages 8–10

Shuffle Tag

Slide only. Tags count at the knee. Twenty seconds and everyone is burning.

AgesU10+
Players6–20
Time5 min
Spaceany flat surface
Equipmentcones or lines to mark a box
Levelbeginner
Court diagram of the Shuffle Tag basketball drill: start positions and movement
Basket at the top. Orange circles: offense, X: defense, wavy line: dribble, dashed line: pass.

Setup

Mark out a box about the size of a volleyball court and put everyone inside it. No ball needed.

How it runs

  1. Everyone may move by defensive slide only – no running and no crossover steps.
  2. For ten to twenty seconds, everybody tries to tag as many other players as possible.
  3. A tag only counts at knee height and may be deflected by the player being tagged.
  4. A player who is tagged steps out, does one tuck jump or push-up, and rejoins immediately.

Coaching point

Knee-height tags force everybody to stay low, which is the whole reason for the game.

In the U10 Drill Book, page 11

The full drill

  • 2 more coaching points
  • 3 common mistakes and how to fix them
  • 3 progressions to make it harder
  • a way to make it competitive

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