The long and difficult pre-season for OHA’s A-Pool men is finally at an end as we start the season regular, much to the delight of most of our squad. Our sessions of long distance runs, shorter agility courses, gym circuits and turf sessions, run from early December, will have hopefully prepared us for the upcoming season. But with a much shorter pre-season schedule, due to the early season start, to get in some match simulation we had to rely on a game played by the A-Pool squad for as long as I’ve been involved.
Bucketball is a fast-paced game played by two teams of any number, with any shaped ball, on a rectangular field of any size. The object of the game is to score more goals than the opposition, by passing to someone on your team into an ‘end zone’ placed at either end of the field. It is sort of a morphing of netball, touch football and gridiron and has a complex set of rules that we have compiled and can be adjusted depending on what the intended outcome of the game is. Whether it be fitness, game intensity, game tactics or a press simulation. Bucketball is the perfect game to allow the A-Pool boys match day simulation without needing the turf.
If you or your team would like to try out bucketball as a warmup or training drill, ask one of the A-Pool boys to give you a run down of the rules.
