The activity challenge: Play Goalball Shuttle 

Goalball is a Paralympic sport. It is played by athletes with a visual impairment. Everyone who plays it wears a blindfold so you can play it too. To play goalball you need to judge where you are in a space so you stay in the court and do not bump into others. Play Goalball Shuttle to practise moving whilst blindfolded! 
 
Time needed: 5 minutes 
 
Get ready: 

• A blindfold, e.g., scarf, tea towel, sleep mask. 
• Two guides – two people who will clap (or rattle) and give instructions. 
• Timer, e.g., watch, phone, counting. 
• Optional: rattle, e.g., dry pasta shells in a plastic bottle

Play: 

• Find a long rectangular space without any obstacles, e.g., garden path, yard, corridor. 
• Guide A stands at one end of the space, guide B stands at the other end, facing each other. 
• Put on the blindfold. Move from guide A towards guide B.  
• Guide B claps to guide you. If you go off course, guide B shouts left or right to correct you. 
• When you reach guide B, turn around and return to guide A. 
• How many shuttles (there and back) can you do in 60 seconds?
• Repeat and see if you can do more next time. 

 
Change the game: 

• Create a code of claps, e.g., different beats for straight, left, right etc. 
• Move differently, e.g., walk, crawl, lunge, jog. 
• Make the space shorter, longer or add an obstacle to be guided around.  

Discover more: 

• Discover more about the sport of Goalball
• Goalball in schools
• Goalball at the School Games
• Goalball clubs