​Capture the Flag is a game in which two teams compete, each one attempting to obtain the opposing team’s flag and prevent that team from stealing their flag.
Benefits: Capture the Flag has many health and fitness benefits associated with it. By playing this game, cardiovascular endurance, agility, coordination, reaction time, and speed can be improved.
Fitness Benefits : Capture the Flag improves agility, because you need to rapidly move to different locations in the play area to defend the flag and pursue the obtainment of the opposing team’s flag. Capture the Flag improves coordination, because many different movements are involved in capture the flag and legs especially need to respond quickly to visual cues. Capture the Flag improves reaction time because if someone begins to chase you, or someone enters your team’s area, in order to avoid getting tagged or allowing someone to take the flag, you need to quickly respond. Capture the Flag improves speed because one needs to run fast to evade being caught and catch up with someone attempting to take the flag.
Social Interaction: Relationships: Teamwork is required in Capture the Flag. Team members must work together to develop strategies and assign roles. Effective team cooperation creates desired results. If teamwork is not displayed, team members will most likely eventually learn that cooperation is key. If team members cooperate they can achieve more. By assigning specific roles to different players, more can be accomplished in an orderly manner. Individuals may have good ideas, and if team members work together, such strategies can help to win the game.
Social Interaction and Self Expression: Capture the Flag allows players to express themselves through the game and build stronger relationships with their teammates as well as learn how to effectively cooperate.
Self-expression: Capture the Flag allows you to express their thoughts and feelings. Your ideas and creativity are reflected through strategies. Personality can be shown through the role they are currently playing in the game. Confidence and determination can be expressed by going to get the flag, helpfulness by defending the flag, and thoughtfulness by helping others get out of jail.
Health Benefits: Capture the Flag improves cardiovascular endurance. Running to avoid being tagged or tagging another in the game strengthens your cardiovascular muscles because of the vigorous activity. More blood needs to be pumped throughout the body faster. There are many skills used in Capture the Flag. These include chasing, fleeing, and dodging. You need to be able to chase another player to tag them if they have the flag. You also need to be able to run quickly away from someone who is chasing you. You need to be able to dodge others when you are running, especially on the opposing team’s side. Evasive techniques like these help one not to get caught and to therefore end up in jail less frequently.
Enjoyment: Capture the Flag can be a very enjoyable activity. It can be very exciting because of the moments when you are chasing an opposing team member, sneaking to the other side, or being chased by someone. It can be fun to see strategies working. It is also very exciting the moment when you are running to your side with the flag. Capture the Flag can be played almost anywhere. As long as boundaries that are mostly equal can be defined, and play area is not too small, it can be played. There aren’t many costs to playing capture the flag. The only things needed are enough people, a play area, and the flags. The flags can be anything, as long as they are relatively easy to spot and the flags for both teams are similar or of similar sizes.