Frogger

I like this drill a lot. It's really easy and you can change it depending on the skill level of the people doing it. I don't know why it's called Frogger, but I guess there's a sense in which it's like the video game in that you have to move around obstacles (other skaters) and stuff?

This was the version I played as a kid. Oh, memories.

You start by making a pack with all the skaters in it and have the skating as a pack. This is really important for the drill. Then, the person running the drill (presuambly not in the pack) will call out specific commands either for the entire pack, or for individual people.

Commands you could call for the entire pack are:

• speed up
• slow down
• stop
• touch two people (to make sure that you were still close enough in the pack)
• (in theory I guess you could say stop and turn around but we didn't)

Then there were specific commands, so you'd call out someone's name and then say something like:

• go to the front
• go to the back
• go to the inside
• go to the outside
• hit [some other person]

and the last one was fun because if you were hitting or being hit, you might be on opposite ends of the pack and you'd have to find the other person while the pack was still moving.

We did this one for about 10 minutes, then had a break and then did it again. I really liked it, you have to look in all directions and people started calling out where there were holes that needed filling and moving people into the right spots and it worked really well and was pretty fun to boot.