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Transition between wide, narrow and curled movements

Gymnastics: individual movements and balances

Unit Summary

This unit will introduce pupils to creating movements and balances whilst developing movement competence. Pupils will explore moving and balancing in high, low, wide, narrow and curled ways, on the floor and on apparatus. Pupils will add movements together and reflect on their ideas.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to transition between wide, narrow and curled movements on a variety of apparatus.

Key Notes

  • Move: quality transitions between wide, narrow and curled movements and balances require control.
  • Think: showing imagination using a range of apparatus creates successful transitions between movements and balances.
  • Connect: sharing the apparatus and giving others time and space to develop their ideas shows empathy.
  • Feel: striving to improve skills by practicing several times develops confidence.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • quality: the good parts of the performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly
  • action: a movement, balance or jump that is practiced in gymnastics
  • transition: the movement into and out of one gymnastics skill to another

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Transitions mean adding a travelling option as you move from one skill to another. Gymnastics lessons always need lots of apparatus and take too long to set up.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: quality transitions between wide, narrow and curled movements and balances require control. Think: showing imagination using a range of apparatus creates successful transitions between movements and balances.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'quality'

the good parts of the performance that suggest the movements and balances are performed correctly.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Transitions mean adding a travelling option as you move from one skill to another. Gymnastics lessons always need lots of apparatus and take too long to set up. Correction: Reinforce the concept of transitions as the smooth transfer of one skill moving straight into another one. Gymnastics lessons can be taught using just mats and benches, that do not take long to set up.

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