1. Gymnastics involves physical exercises that build strength, flexibility, balance and coordination through movements involving the arms, legs, back and core.
2. The document describes 7 fundamental gymnastic exercises - the straddle sit, balance on one foot, log roll, forward roll, splits, cartwheel, and backbend.
3. It also discusses 3 categories of fundamental movement skills - balance skills, locomotor skills like running and jumping, and ball skills like throwing, kicking, and bouncing.
1. Gymnastics involves physical exercises that build strength, flexibility, balance and coordination through movements involving the arms, legs, back and core.
2. The document describes 7 fundamental gymnastic exercises - the straddle sit, balance on one foot, log roll, forward roll, splits, cartwheel, and backbend.
3. It also discusses 3 categories of fundamental movement skills - balance skills, locomotor skills like running and jumping, and ball skills like throwing, kicking, and bouncing.
1. Gymnastics involves physical exercises that build strength, flexibility, balance and coordination through movements involving the arms, legs, back and core.
2. The document describes 7 fundamental gymnastic exercises - the straddle sit, balance on one foot, log roll, forward roll, splits, cartwheel, and backbend.
3. It also discusses 3 categories of fundamental movement skills - balance skills, locomotor skills like running and jumping, and ball skills like throwing, kicking, and bouncing.
1. Gymnastics involves physical exercises that build strength, flexibility, balance and coordination through movements involving the arms, legs, back and core.
2. The document describes 7 fundamental gymnastic exercises - the straddle sit, balance on one foot, log roll, forward roll, splits, cartwheel, and backbend.
3. It also discusses 3 categories of fundamental movement skills - balance skills, locomotor skills like running and jumping, and ball skills like throwing, kicking, and bouncing.
• It is a type of sport that includes physical exercises
requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and endurance. The movements involved in gymnastics contribute to the development of the arms, legs, shoulders, back, chest, and abdominal muscle groups. GYMNASTIC EXERCISES 1. STRADDLE SIT
• An act of sitting with
one's legs wide apart • It’s also a movement that will appear as an isolated skill or in transition on vault, rings and bars 2. BALANCE ON ONE FOOT
• It is the ability to keep your body's center of
mass over your base of support—the area under your feet that's connected with the ground.. • How to balance on one foot: Standing up straight, gymnasts should lift one leg off the floor (or beam) and hold that position for at least 5 seconds. BALANCE ON ONE FOOT 3. LOG ROLL
• It is a sideways roll with the hands
next to the waist and the pencil roll is with the hands stretched above the head. A sideways roll can also be performed when a gymnast over-rotates or loses their balance in a vertical, forward or sideways direction. 4. FORWARD ROLL
• It is a basic gymnastics move that looks like a
graceful somersault. To perform one correctly, you should be able to move from the starting position into a roll and get back on your feet all in one motion. It takes practice to do a forward roll without using your hands to support you as you stand up. FORWARD ROLL 5. SPLITS
• It improve joint health to get strong in
terms of becoming efficient in all physical activities. It tends to increase the flexibility of a person and, in turn, enables both strength and conditioning of the core. Splits improve the body’s balance and strength, which naturally wears off with age. 6. CARTWHEEL
• It is a sideways rotary movement of the body. It
is performed by bringing the hands to the floor one at a time while the body inverts. The legs travel over the body trunk while one or both hands are on the floor, and then the feet return to the floor one at a time, ending with the athlete standing upright. CARTWHEEL 7. BACKBEND
• It is a gymnastics, contortion,
dance and ice skating move, where the spine is bent backwards, and catching oneself with the hands. Throughout the move, the abdominal muscles, obliques, and legs are used to steady the performer while curving backwards. FUNDAMENTAL SKILLS OF MOVEMENT & BODY MECHANICS FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT SKILLS • Fundamental movement skills are a specific set of skills that involve different body parts such as feet, legs, trunk, head, arms and hands. • These skills are the “building blocks” for more complex and specialised skills that kids will need throughout their lives to competently participate in different games, sports and recreational activities. Fundamental Skills Movements Categories include:
• BALANCE SKILLS • LOCOMOTOR SKILLS • BALL SKILLS BALANCE SKILLS • Movements where the body remains in place, but moves around its horizontal and vertical axes. LOCOMOTOR SKILLS RUNNING
• Is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans to move rapidly on foot. JUMPING
• Is the transfer of weight from one or both feet to both feet. HOPPING
• The activity of going
from one place to another place of the same kind, usually a combination. GALLOPING
• Traveling with one
foot always in the lead. BALL SKILLS CATCHING
• It is receiving an object with hands. It involves the child visually tracking the object in flight and moving into a position to collect the object safely without dropping it. THROWING
• It is propelling a ball away from the body and is a target skill. KICKING
• is a fundamental movement skill, basic building blocks of physical activity, in which a child strikes an object with their foot. UNDERARM THROW
• A strong, direct throw
that generates power from transferring weight in a rocking action. BOUNCING
• Is pushing the ball towards
the ground with sufficient force to allow the ball to bounce back up to hand/hands at a level just below the hip. Bouncing is typically performed in a stationary position. BODY CONDITIONING EXERCISE Bodily conditioning exercise in gymnastics are designed to help you strengthen your core, leg and arm muscles in an effort to improve your flexibility and control during a gymnastics routine. PUSH UP BACK HANDSPRINGS
• This gymnastics exercise requires you to mobilize
your core as you flip backward, then use arm strength to land gracefully on your hands, and finally complete the maneuver by flipping once more to land on your feet in one fluid motion. It’s important to increase your balance, flexibility, and skill at backbends before progressing to back handsprings.
