SmartSpeed Drill - Serpentine

Overview:

The Serpentine drill is used to train athletes to reactively change direction in response to a defender immediately in front of them. Each athlete is assigned a colour for example:

• Athlete X = red
• Athlete Y = green

Upon commencement of the drill, the athlete must run through the gate corresponding to their colour. The athlete continues to repeat this for a set time, with the goal being to cover as much distance in the time as possible. 

In a team situation, each team must work together to move the ball as quickly as possible from point to point.  This can also be an unplanned S run for a single athlete with skill elements (like a Jump) assigned to different flashing coloured light signals. 

Minimum number of timing gates: 2

Suitable for SmartSpeed Pro

Drill options:

• Colour Flash - Red, Green, Blue and All Colours (Red, Green, Blue) 

To setup in SmartSpeed app:

1. Log in to SmartSpeed app
2. Select Start Session
3. Select Drill: Serpentine
4. Select My Drill: Standard (unless using a custom drill created in SmartSpeed Online)
5. Select your Team
6. Select Mode: Automatic (unless using SmartScan RFID reader)
7. Confirm Re-arm: 500 ms. The time is takes for gates to reset for the next athlete - adjust as required
8. Name session as required for your reporting
9. Select Ready
10. Set the timing gate order. Walk through the timing gates in the order the athlete will pass through.
11. Select your Number of options. The number of colour flash choices to use.
12. Select your Flash Choices 
13. Select your Delay. The minimum and maximum amount of time delay between colour flashes 
14. Select your Tag Result preference. If you select On, you then select the amount of time to tag a result valid or invalid.
15. Select the Tick Icon 
16. Run through the drill as prompted by the timing gates and drill set up.