 Hi everybody, today's episode I want to do something a little bit different. This is kind of a drill I used to do with the kids a lot. It's kind of a fun drill. It kind of breaks away from the normal routine and especially like over summer times. If you've got children's classes, sometimes summer's a good time to experiment. And there's a lot of games you can do with them that can teach them valuable skills and lessons and they're having fun at the same time. So I would just like to share one that I do on occasion. The kids love it. It's a lot of fun and it really kind of pushes their boundaries a little bit. It's called the Ninja game. I call it the Ninja game and it's no disrespect to Ninja 2 or anything like that. But it is a game of stealth and infiltration and the kids really get into it. So the main objective of the game is quite simple. Basically, you know, we take all the wave masters. We take the wrestling mats. We take whatever we have in school, the pads and we make almost a structure out of it. We call it the castle or whatever you want it to be. You make a structure, you make an obstacle course out of it. And this is basically the temple. And you put some sort of treasure in the middle of the temple for them. In our case, we had like dodge balls or they're like beach balls or whatever. They're spotted. So we're like, oh, we're going to call this the dragon egg. Whatever you want. It doesn't really matter. Basically have some sort of objective that one student who's the main player is going to try to retrieve. Now, you set up this obstacle course and what you do is you take a bunch of other students, maybe five, six, seven, even eight and you put blindfolds on them or get those like sleep masks, something where they can't see and you position them around the room. Basically third guards of the temple and you can give them something like a fuzzy sword or if you've got some of these blockering pads or even something simple as a pool noodle that you can cut up. These are like imaginary swords. So you arm them with these and the whole objective is the game takes place at night. So whoever the ninja is or the infiltrator is, their objective is to climb the obstacles, walk around the obstacles, get inside the temple, retrieve the artifact and leave without getting caught. And basically if they make any noise, the guards are going to know where they are. And it's funny when you see kids blindfolded, they're like this and they're listening. Any sound they hear, they start swinging around at it. It's pretty fun. But what's the big deal? How hard is it, you say? Well the trick is the kid who's the infiltrator has to wear a bell around their wrists. So they have to move in a way very softly, step softly, especially if they're going to climb. They've got to be careful not to ring that bell because I tell you right now, you hear that one ding ding ding ding ding, you see the whole room start swinging around. It's actually pretty humorous to watch it. And you can even take it up a few notches. Like at the time we had different formats, you know, we got red and black here. At one point they were blue and black. So the black areas were the actual ground, the interior of the castle. So we built our frame around it. The blue areas were water. So we made a rule of, if the ninja was going to go into the water, they had to crawl, like they were swimming. And we would put even like kicking shields around that could be like leaps stones. So they risked going around that way by jumping and crawling, they had to not make noise. And the rules were simple. If they got tapped by a sword, they were out, they were caught. Now if you have a large class, you don't necessarily want 20 kids out there with these things swinging around. Or if you want to have four or six, whatever it is, you can still engage the rest of the class, put them around the edge and they're like the wind. Or they can make owl sounds, they can scrape the floor. They can make ambient noise that might make it harder to pinpoint where the one kid is. So we did this a few times for the past couple of years over the summer. We had like, during the summer camp there was, we kind of combined two classes into one. So we had like an hour and a half to two hours to do this game. And they had an absolute blast with it. And you see them really trying to work on their technique. And you really try to see them listening. So it's kind of funny when you take away a kid's eyesight, how, how alert they get. And they're really trying hard. And you'd run through it a couple of times. So only a few kids actually made it because when they got panicked, they would run. What happens when they run? That bell will go ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. And of course the swords would swing around, they'd get tagged out. And it was next kid's turn. So this was just a fun drill. I just wanted to share with you, I had a lot of success with this with the kids. They got a great big deal of fun out of it. It's something different. They're learning some valuable skills out of it. And it's just something throwing during the summer game. So if you guys want to try it, please give it a shot. And if you have any other games that you guys like to play or any creative drills with your kids, please share them below so that we can all give it a try. So thank you so much for watching. Please be sure to subscribe, share this video, click on the icon, and we'll see you next time. Thank you.