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Frozen Kingdom: Escape the Ice Queen
Encourages constant movement and ball mastery and helps build confidence for dribbling under pressure
WHY USE IT
This fun game for younger players encourages constant movement and ball mastery and helps build confidence for dribbling under pressure. It works on core skills such as dribbling, turning, awareness and acceleration.
Set-up
Mark out an area relative to the age, ability and number of players. Each player has a ball (their magic crystal). Select one to three players to be the Ice Queens/Ice Monsters. These players don’t have a ball. Place a small Frozen Castle (square of cones) in one corner.
HOW TO play
All players with a ball are Snow Explorers, dribbling around the kingdom. The Ice Queens try to freeze players by tagging them. If frozen, the player stands still, legs apart, holding their ball above their head. A team-mate can unfreeze them by dribbling their ball through the frozen player’s legs. Rotate Ice Queens every 60–90 seconds.
PROGRESSIONS
To make the game easier, make the area bigger or reduce the number of Ice Queens. You can also allow frozen players to unfreeze themselves after 5 toe taps. To make the game harder, add more Ice Queens, limit touches (e.g. 3-touch max), stipulate players can only use their non-dominant foot, or stipulate frozen players must go to the Frozen Castle and complete a turn before rejoining play.
For more advanced players, you can progress the game so that Ice Queens must win the ball cleanly, not just tag, or stipulate that unfreezing requires a pass instead of a dribble. You can also add a time challenge: “How many players can you freeze in 60 seconds?”
COACHING POINTS
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Head up: “Can you spot the Ice Queen early?”
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Change of speed after a turn to escape danger
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Ball close when in traffic, push away when space opens
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Decision-making: escape or help a frozen team-mate?
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Praise creativity: spins, feints, disguises
1. Set up an area relative to the age, ability and number of players
2. Each player has a ball (magic crystal) except for one to three players who are Ice Queens or Ice Monsters
3. Ice Queens freeze players by tagging them, if frozen the player has to be unfrozen by a team-mate
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