Raiding Skills
The raider uses the following skills to make a successful raid.
Feint or fake – A movement the raider uses to confuse the defender about his next move.
Leading leg raid – The raider assumes a boxer’s shuffle stance throughout the raid.
Shuffling raid – The raider shuffles his/her feet throughout the raid and suddenly changes the direction.
Reverse step raid – The raider keeps changing his/her attacking front foot and back foot throughout the raid.
Hand touch – The raider extends his/her arm towards the defenders and tries to create a struggling action to make one opponent out.
Hand Touch
Hand swings – These are used by the raider to touch his/her opponents or to touch one of the opponents.
Toe touch – Here the raider extends his/her toes forward to touch the defender to touch out one of the opponents.
Foot touch - In this skill, the raider tries to touch the defender with his/her foot to touch out one of the opponents.
Foot Touch
Kicking – The raider does a back kick, side kick or roll kick in order to touch the defenders.
Safe raid – Here the raider during a struggle can use the following tactics: jumping over a player, diving towards the centre line or rolling tactics.
Defensive skills
The antis use various techniques to save themselves and/or score point.
(a) Catch or hold – while catching a defender should keep feet apart, knees bent and body weight on the toes. The different types of holds are wrist catch, ankle catch, dive and catch as well as trunk catch.
(b) Blocking – Defenders block the path of the raider by creating wall of obstruction like full circle and half circle.
