Safety considerations:

• Players that are lying down need to keep a long narrow position to avoid being stepped on.

• Players that are running need to pay close attention to the players lying down so that they are not stepped on.

Variations:

• Front Crawl

  • The same as Snake Skin except that the back player crawls on hands and knees (better suited for grass surface than a hard gymnasium floor) underneath her team which is standing in a line with their feet spread out.

  • When the back player gets to the front she stands up and spreads her feet so the next player can go between them.

  • Once the back player has gone underneath the second-last player then that player goes on hands and knees and crawls underneath the team.

  • Go through the line a specified number of times.

  • Could also do a front crawl until everyone has completed the event once and then do it in reverse order with a backwards crawl to get everyone into the original position.

• Slalom Skier

  • The same as Snake Skin except that players kneel sideways and the other players jump or do two-footed hops over the kneeling players. As a safety concern make sure players that are kneeling stay low to the ground and far enough apart from the last player they jumped/hopped over so that people do not jump/hop into them.

•  Frogs and Snakes

  • The same as Snake Skin except that the second player in line leap frogs over a kneeling first player and then takes up a position with legs straddled 3 paces in front of the first player.

  • The third player leap frogs over the first player, then crawls like a snake between the second player’s legs, then sets up to be leap frogged over....

As a cool-down:

• Works well as a cool-down but emphasize going at 3/4 speed and picking a distance not a time limit.