Kabaddi, a traditional sport in India, involves elements of wrestling and tag. In this lesson, the modified form of Kabaddi is carried out improving the ability to control objects through effective tapping and evading strategies, promoting the cognitive grasp of the sport’s cultural context as well as imparting values for teamwork and tactics.
Objectives
Motor: Student that is chosen as the raider will be able to tag another person who is not by tapping them at least 2 times during a 30 second round of Kabaddi game in ¾ trials when verbally prompted by the instructor.
Cognitive: Students will learn the Indian national form of Kabaddi as a cultural heritage game and understand its historical foundations on which it evolved to serve as one that promotes physical fitness among citizens, by discussing with classmate during the reflection portion of the activity when verbally prompted by the instructor..
Affective: Students will encourage the spirit of teamwork coupled with tactical thinking through involvement in the game of Kabaddi, to realize the importance of coordination and communication during the activity.
Skill Focus: Object control by tagging and evading, cultural attendant, and teamwork.
Equipment
Open area
Cones
Activity Description
It will begin as a warm-up. Introduce Kabaddi while giving a brief culture of kabaddi and its significance in the physical fitness.
Draw up boundaries for play and create teams.
Outline basic rules of play by explaining how one incurs a point by tagging an enemy without being captured within 30 seconds.
Divide the class into two groups and describe the pattern of playing a Kabaddi match, wherein each team sends one 'raider' at a time into the opponent's half, to tag members and earn points for their team before returning without getting caught.
Collect the student for the discussion on experiences during the game, focusing upon the need for object control in relation to tagging and evading strategically during the play.
Conclude with one reflecting session asking students to express how participation in Kabaddi benefited them to use and control objects through hands or other parts of the body and understanding of cultural sports.
Modification
Challenge: Vary the rules, enhance the object control by limiting the number of steps a raider is allowed to take.
Simplified: Change the game to simple tagging and not require evasion, thereby giving more encouragement to students who may be newcomers to the Kabaddi game.
