Sack race is a fantastic way for people to get plenty of outdoor exercise and enjoy being silly!

As well as
boosting their self-esteem and general wellbeing, they’ll have heaps of fun testing out their balance and
coordination.

Sack race is often used to help build camaraderie and team spirit and has been highlighted in activities
as early as grade-school and carries on with adults as old as 60 years old as long as they are fit enough to
undergo the rigors of the activity.

How was sack race discovered and when did it began? It all started in year 1967, where it was invented
by the very poor parents of a young farm boy. They couldn’t afford for lavish equipments on the young
boy’s birthday, they emptied a potato sack and made the guests stand inside the sacks to race.

Racing is a competition of speed. That’s why you need speed and power on your lower body part as your
skills fro sack race. Everyone preparing for a race needs to have speed work because speed work
develops your fast-twitch muscles. As you hop, the force of about 3 times your body weight is placed
through each leg. Having the muscular strength and stability to absorb that force each step will minimize
the load through your joints and reduce your risk of pain or injury.

For the materials to play sack race, you just need a Potato sack, or laundry bas or burlap sacks.

These are the mechanics when playing Sack race:

• To play, you need one burlap sack for each individual participant. Participants will run to the
sack, put both feet in and begin hopping toward the finish line.

• Contestants must keep both feet in sack and at least one hand on the sack at all times.

• The sack must remain as close to the waist as possible and should not fall below the knees.

• When the “GO” signal is given, they hop towards the reference point the chair), go around the
chair and hop back to their lines.

• The first racer to the finish line wins.