Serpentine drills are designed to test speed and cognitive agility.
The athlete passes through the gates in order. As each gate is broken, the following gate in the sequence will display a randomised colour signal (red, green, blue, or all / white).
Before passing through that gate, the athlete must complete a predetermined action based on the colour presented on the LED display. These actions are decided prior to beginning the drill.
Suitable for SmartSpeed Pro and SmartSpeed Plus.
SmartSpeed Plus
Set up a Serpentine drill in SmartSpeed Plus
The below steps outline only the steps relevant to the Serpentine drill in the SmartSpeed Plus app.
Having trouble connecting gates and setting up a session? Read our step-by-step guide on setting up and running a drill in SmartSpeed Plus.
| Total gates | Minimum 2 gates per track |
| Drill type |
Serpentine |
| Drill name | 30m (30yd) Serpentine User-created custom Serpentine drill |
| Signals | Designate the signal colours to be displayed on the timing unit LED display. Can choose up to four different signals - red, green, blue, all / white. These will be randomised for each trial. |
| Signal delay | Toggle on a delay before the signal appears on the following timing unit. |
Run the drill
Click Ready to begin your session. You will see the name of your first athlete appear both in the SmartSpeed Plus app, as well as on the LED display of the first timing gate.
After breaking the beam of the first gate, their time will begin and the next timing gate will display one of your designated signal colours (this will be randomised for each trial).
Once the trial has begun, each gate other than the next gate in sequence will be disarmed until the trial has been completed.
Live results in the SmartSpeed Plus app will show the split times (S), signal colours (Sig), and cumulative time (C) for each trial.
SmartSpeed Pro
Drill options:
- Colour Flash - Red, Green, Blue and All Colours (Red, Green, Blue)
To setup in SmartSpeed app:
- Log in to SmartSpeed app
- Select Start Session
- Select Drill: Serpentine
- Select My Drill: Standard (unless using a custom drill created in SmartSpeed Online)
- Select your Team
- Select Mode: Automatic (unless using SmartScan RFID reader)
- Confirm Re-arm: 500 ms. The time is takes for gates to reset for the next athlete - adjust as required
- Name session as required for your reporting
- Select Ready
- Set the timing gate order. Walk through the timing gates in the order the athlete will pass through.
- Select your Number of options. The number of colour flash choices to use.
- Select your Flash Choices
- Select your Delay. The minimum and maximum amount of time delay between colour flashes
- Select your Tag Result preference. If you select On, you then select the amount of time to tag a result valid or invalid.
- Select the Tick Icon
- Run through the drill as prompted by the timing gates and drill set up.
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