The Alcatraz Escape Game is a high-intensity full-court chase drill where players try to “escape” from a designated zone while defenders attempt to trap or tag them. It develops explosiveness, spatial reading, and transition speed, and adds a layer of fun pressure to improve decision-making on the move.
Objectives
- Work feints.
- To encourage the Game Without the Ball.
Contents
- Agility
- Attention
- Perception
- Speed of reaction (reflex)
- Gestural speed
- Feints
- Dissociation oculo manual
- Changes of address
- Changes of meaning
- Turns
- Displacement defensive
Recommended age
- From 8 years onwards (Minibasket: categories pre-benjamin, benjamin, and fry).
Number of players
- From 3-4 players on.
- The person in the center is the prisoner and the others that are out are the guardians.
Recommended time
- Total duration of the game 4-6 min.
Equipment and facilities
- You can make this game in a open space or in a field (whether half or whole).
- Enough pins to be able to define a circle (5 or more). As a safer alternative may be to use a few patches of soil. In case you don’t have material, we can use circles painted on the basketball court or play in the area for 3 seconds.
- We can play it in a progressive way, first without a ball and then with the ball.
Initial layout and description of the Alcatraz Escape Game
A circle with a few mushrooms/cone low. The player that will play the role of prisoner will remain in the center and guardians will be placed on the outside.
The Prisoner must get out of the circle, avoiding to be touched by the guardians.In case of being touched by a guardian, you will return to the center (as if I returned to his cell).
Note: the concept of the game is very instinctive. Reminiscent of other games such as Pilla-Pilla or the game of the Wall/Spider/Bulldog
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Variants
- Include a countdown.
- Compete by seeing who manages to escape before.
- Go to modulate the space (restricted area of the 3-sec – zone).
- You can make a smaller space but there are one or two guardians pìllen the prisoner.
- You could put two other concentric circles to play with an option of continuation after the prison escape (something as well as out-of-state/province/municipality).
Cedric Arregui Guivarch
National Coach of Basketball (CES 2014)
