Triangle Tag

During my elementary physical education class, i tried having the kids play a game called triangle tag. This game is used as a warm up activity to get the students heart rate going. Well, when i read about this strategy and saw a video on how the game took place it worked out great for the teacher in the video. When i tried to impliment this, for some reason went anything but smooth. Some students were complaining that they were not with the group they wanted (their friends). The game involves the students holding hands and and running in a circle both clockwise and counter clockwise to try and protect one of the three people part of the circle from getting tagged. This did not work. Who knew that forth graders would have such a hard trouble holding hands with another classmate. This strategy surly did not work for me. Maybe fourth grade was too old for this particular game!