Gate Guards

1. Mark an area 25 metres wide and 30 long. Spread six gates around inside it: two 1 metre wide, two 2 metres, two 3 metres.
2. Everyone has a ball except two guards in bibs (three guards with more than 12 players).
3. Dribble through any gate, in either direction, for a point, and keep your own score. You may not use the same gate twice in a row.
4. Guards may not tackle or stand in a gate. They tag a dribbler who is in a gate, and that dribbler's score goes back to zero. Play on.
5. Every 90 seconds, two new guards take the bibs and the old ones take a ball. Play until everyone has guarded once.

The dribbler has six gates and two guards to read. A wide gate is easy to get through, but a guard can wait beside it; a narrow one may be far from the guards, but it needs a tidy touch. So the head comes up between touches: where are the guards looking, and which gate is behind their backs? Then the timing: go through when a guard turns to chase someone else, or show one gate and break for another. The reset adds a second question: with eight points in your pocket, do you still take the gate right next to a guard? The guards decide which gates to watch, and the two of them have to split the area rather than chase the same player.