Kiwi Sport | Rippa-Rugby

This week Thursday we had kiwi can on the courts with coach Mr Hamish. Our sport this term is Rippa-Rugby. Today we were learning to step and side step people which is like tricking them because these are skills to use in rippa-rugby to not get your tag pulled. First everyone got a rippa belt from the bag and two rippa tags. Mr Hamish split us into 3 groups and we played a few games of rippa rugby. One team sat off under the hut while the other two teams played and then one team that was playing swapped positions with the people who sat off. After a couple round of this, the groups lined up on the cones. One person who volunteered from each group had to be the ripper and stood on the opposite side of their team behind a cone. Each group had a ball and the person at the front had to run and practice stepping the person without them getting you rippa tag. Stepping which is side stepping is when you put your foot out to the side to make it seem as if you were about to go that direction but trick them and go the other way and keep running. The person had to practice stepping the person behind the cone and then run the ball back to your group and give it to the next person in line. Now and then the person behind the cone had to switch with someone else so that they still get a turn. Next we learnt another skill which is one I already knew about and was using it in the games just like the other skill. For this we had to also put our foot out as if we were going that direction but go the other way by turning you body and keep running. Then we had to get into partners but I got into a small group of 3 with Nicole and Florence. One partner went one side and the other went on the other side. In our case, Nicole went on the other side and Me and Florence stayed. Mr Hamish numbered us off so when he called our number we could run. Me and Florence were both ten but I was ten 1 and she was ten 2. We all had to stand in a line on each side. If Mr Hamish called your partner number then you and your partner ran and one person had to try and rip the tag off while the other gets the ball and tries to get a touch down. When in the little game we had to use one of the skills we learnt. If your number was called you had to go around and up the line to get the ball from Mr Hamish and run to get the goal. After this we came back and took our rippa tags and belt off. We said bye to Mr Hamish and lined up ready to go back to class.