Football

First of all I think that Zach, Seth and David did a fantastic job of organizing, encouraging and teaching us how to play football. Even though I've been around football all my life I've never really understood all the aspects or much less played it.
So the first thing we did was split up into three groups to learn different techniques and skills we required to play the game. I was in Seth's group first where we learned how to throw and catch.
Next, we rotated to the next leader (group which was David) who taught us the to combine running and catching the football at a short distance. His activity also got me pretty warmed up! Thirdly, we rotated to Zach's group where again we learned different routes on a larger; more game-like scale. We also had two people run at the same time and Zach threw to one of us, making the activity very game-like.
This was a great idea to split up into three groups because it kept the activity organized and it's a great example of avoiding 'diminishing marginal productivity,' in which case there weren't too many of us in a group to be distracted by, and each of us got more time and individual attention to attune our newly taught skills.
The next thing we did was paly 7 on 7 where it was more game-like. This activity was a little rocky because it was a little slower but I'm glad we did it because it helped me understand better how we the skills we just learned were going to be incorperated in the comming scrimage.
Lastly we broke off into teams and actually scrimage. Each of the leaders helped his team pick plays and were very encouraging but when it came down to it, they let the teams decide for themselves what play they would do. They portrated excellently what we learned in the first chapters of "Leading Self Directed Work Teams" by empowering the group to accomplish their goals but not dictating or controlling them.
Another concept I noticed was social facilitation. I noticed that the people who knew football like the back of their hand performed much better in front of others as opposed to people who weren't as comfortable with the game.
Another concept that played a role was how being less efficient brought about more productivity. It was the perfect atmosphere to where we weren't being worked and worked to the point where we wouldn't perform. I think we did each activity in a good amount of time and the leaders provided the encouragement and instilled confidence in each of us that made us want to perform better.
All in all the guys did a great job and I look forward to the next activity today!