Kiwi Sport

This week LS1 had kiwi sport on the school field with a different coach. This week for Softball we learnt to pitch.

When we first got to the field, the coach split us in to 2 different teams. We had to line up boy girl, boy girl, etc. We learnt about the 4 different bases. Home base, 1st base, 2nd base, and 3rd base. Both of the teams had to stand in a line and run to each base and we one person at a time from each team needed to run at the same time. You had to touch each base with your foot,if you didn't you had to go back to that base and touch it. One the team player was done and they came back to home base, the next person would go, and the next until the last person. The coach said that it was a draw.

After that, each team had to line up behind a cone. One of the rows of cones had a ball on each cone. Your partner would be someone from the other team. My partner was Raera. First we learnt to flick with the ball. You and your partner had to take turns with ball to try flicking it to eachother. To flick the ball, your wrist and hand is doing all the work so your arm doesn't move at all.

After practising flicking, we learnt to throw the ball. We had to keep our arm in a straight in a line, then move our body so that it is in a K shape, then swing your straight arm back which is holding the ball, then flick it when it get's to your leg. We practised doing this with our partner. I did some good and I did some bad ones, but it was still fun. We even had a competition between all the partners to see who would win. Who had to flick the ball and catch it, but if you didn't you needed to put your hands on your head. Sadly me and my partner Raera weren't able to make 10 throws before dropping it. The winning pair was Sakina and Mr Ogilvie.

Lastly we went over the technique we did and how we did and the different bases. I found this week kiwi sport very fun like all the other times and it was cool to learn something knew and how to pitch in softball.