These can be classified into two types — chasing and running skills.
Chasing Skills
Giving Kho – a member of the team which is chasing gives kho by lightly touching his teammate on the back and says “Kho”. Fig.
Kho giving
After receiving kho a chaser should take the first step in the direction in which she/he wants to go.
The chaser after reaching the pole holds the post with one hand and with strongly holding the feet on the ground. She/he moves body forward as far as possible to touch a runner with the other hand. This skill is also called pole dive See Fig.
Kho chase
When an active runner touches by extending an arm, it is called trapping.
Chaser can bounce or dive to touch a runner if she/he feels that she/he can do so. A dive can be of the following types — sitting dive, turning dive, running dive, pole dive and side dive.
Techniques of Getting up
These techniques can be monkey crawl, standing or both.
In monkey crawl, both hands should touch the ground without the body weight falling on them. Torso should be parallel to the ground. Eyes should watch the runner’s feet but the head should not be lifted up. In this, the chaser can use any method to touch the runner.
In the standing style, the chaser gets up slowly while turning the shoulder and then decides the direction to be taken to chase the runner.
Techniques of sitting in a square
There are two techniques namely the toe method and the paralled toe method.
In toe method, the players sit in the square keeping feet apart with one foot ahead of the other. The player shall sit with the support of the hands spread out.
In parallel toe method, the chaser sits in the square and the feet are kept parallel to each other. Hands are placed outside the centre lane and fingers form a bridge. The knees are kept bent and parallel to each other.
Running Skills
The runners come in batches of three and take up scattered positions on the court.
In chain, the runner runs in a zig-zag manner from one post to the other. When the player runs around two chasers in a zig-zag manner from one post to the other, it is called a double chain.
