The game serves the purpose to develop soft hands which will be useful while catching the ball on the ground. To play the game, you would need hot water balloons and a warm sunny day to enjoy. The water balloons you buy for the game should be of specific size. They shouldn’t be too small which breaks easily but shouldn’t be too hard that breaking them becomes an issue.
There will be too coaches or the admin players in the game and both will have to stand about – feet apart. Before starting, you need to teach everyone that the water balloon is supposed to be caught without breaking the balloon.
The game starts when one coach tosses the water balloon to the other one. The other one should hole the water balloon with soft hands. While putting the water balloon in his belly, he should very gently sweep it inside. This is similar to when you pull the glove up when grounding and sweeps the glove up in the belly before you make the throw. While teaching the play, you can make some intentional errors example you can break the water balloon while catching or sweeping it to show how the bare hands ruin the game. Explaining them how hard hands or stiff hands looks like, what is the position of hands which makes the water balloon burst and how one should avoid that position.
It is very important to have soft hands when you catch the water balloon. For that, you need to be act relax which will directly have an influence on the position and movement of hands. To have the best soft hands, one should always pull their gloves up into their belly. This activity should be performed before each throw.
