Hi Shiela You could explore the continuous shooting mode on your camera if you know you want this type of shot. You would need to make sure you have an aperture to give you a good size dof and a shutter speed to freeze as much of the action as you want. So check exposures first and adjust ISO if necessary to get the desired effect. But primarily as far as I know people who get the real stunning shots have not usually just been lucky it is because they have spent hours/days/weeks and taken loads of shots to get the one they want. So the main ingredient is patience.

And every one said, 'If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,---
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!'
Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.

Edward Lear
http://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ns/jumblies.html