Edison

Field Events

Shuttle Relay: Use batons to pass on designated Grade/Gender Teams

  • Red 4th boys, Blue 4th girls, Yellow 5th boys, Green 5th girls
  • First person on team stands on middle gym line to receive baton, then run to opposite wall
  • Starting with the second person, the team lines up
  • On signal the second person on each team starts the race and hands the baton to their teammate standing on the center line
  • The person receiving the handoff runs to the wall, touches the wall and returns the baton to the next person in line (Run past the person in the middle this time)
  • The next person in line runs and this time they pass the baton to their teammate in the middle, then wait there for the baton to be passed to them
  • Middle person runs to opposite wall and returns the baton to the next person in line
  • Continue for four minutes - How many laps can your team do?
    Sprint Start :
  • On your Marks - Place thumb and forefingers on the line - Raise fingers
  • Get Set -Right handed students put left foot forward, right foot back
  • Raise front leg to 90 degrees
  • Go - Drive arms - push from legs

    High Jump - Jump:

  • Practice jumping and landing on back
  • Line up in front of high jump mats
  • Stand with heels a foot or so away
  • One by one students jump onto mats landing on the mid to upper back (dead bug position)
  • Don't look back when jumping - watch hands and feet
  • Jump and Clear:
  • Place the "crossbar" or equivalent at the same height as the top of the mats

 

   Line up in front of high jump mats
  • Stand with heels a foot or so away
  • One by one students jump onto mats landing on the mid to upper back (dead bug position)
  • Don't look back when jumping - watch hands and feet
  • Chose Take Off Foot -Then Jump without crossbar:
  • Almost all right handed students will take off from the left foot
  • Right handed - Line -up on right side
  • Vice versa for left-handed
  • Place three pieces of tape four feet apart leading to the mats
  • One by one students  lined up on the right side stride forward
  • Hit the first tape with the left foot
  • Hit the second tape with the right foot
  • Hit the third tape with the left foot
  • Jump over crossbar and onto mats
  • Jump with crossbar:
  • Do a full run-up in the form of a "J"
  • Extended run-up is four strides in a straight line ad four lines on a curve
  • Hold the "away arm" back on the final stride into takeoff
  • Add the double-arm drive-up on takeoff
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Shot Put:

  • Place outside of left foot (right handers) against the toe board in front
  • The right foot is near the middle of the ring
  • Turn shoulders toward the back of the ring
  • Bend at the waist
  • Rise, turn and release while driving off of the right foot
  • Hold the shot in a cradled (not gripped) position
  • Hold the ball at the base of the four fingers
  • Hold under the chin with the elbow up and behind the shoulder
  • Propel forward with a pushing motion (not throwing)