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Basic Skills for Kho-kho

Kho-kho is mainly based on touching, chasing and running skills. The players will
be able to develop the habit of playing higher level matches only after they have
practised these skills regularly. So, the following practices can be applied to develop
chasing and running skills.

a. Chasing Skill

Kho-Kho is played between two teams of runners and chasers having 9/9 players
each. Nine runners are divided into three groups consisting of three members each.
The first group enters the court. The chasers try to chase and touch the runners
and send them out. When the active chaser touches the seated chaser facing to the
opposite direction on his / her back with a “Kho”, the seated chaser turns into the
active chaser. When the seated chaser gets “Kho”, he/ she becomes an active chaser
and starts chasing the runner. As soon as the first group of the runners are out, the
next group of runners enters the court. After the runners play for nine minutes, they
become chasers. There will be an intermission of 9 minutes between two halves of
the 9/9 minutes’ play.Each half consists of two turns of 9/9 minutes with an interval
of five minutes. The team which gets more points during the play (specific time),wins

the match. The following stages / steps are to be taken to give “Kho”.
i. Giving Kho

The active chaser gives “Kho” to the seated chaser to touch and out the runner
observing the closeness of the runner. Generally, “Kho” can be given in three ways:
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