Year 11 - Physical education
Kicking and footwork
Health and wellbeing: martial arts and self-defence
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' movement competence through a variety of kata along with their emotional and spiritual development as they experience self-improvement challenges associated with martial arts and self-defence practice. Pupils will also develop their metacognition and courage.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to improve footwork, muscular endurance and control of your kicks using leg conditioning exercises.
Key Notes
- Move: exercising at a steady and continuous pace helps to improve muscular strength for better kicking technique.
- Think: leg conditioning exercises are important for maintaining good form when fatigued.
- Think: different leg exercises target specific muscles needed to improve strength and stability.
- Feel: setting appropriate challenges for others shows you have respect for one another
- Connect: supporting and encouraging each other when fatigued helps to maintain motivation and enhance teamwork.
Vocabulary To Learn
- conditioning: exercises that build strength, endurance, power and flexibility in different muscle groups
- fatigue: the feeling of physical or mental tiredness when the body has been pushed to work hard, especially over time
- muscular endurance: the ability of a muscle/muscle group to keep working over a period of time without getting tired
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils often start exercises with too much intensity and quickly recognise that they cannot continue when performing conditioning exercises.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: exercising at a steady and continuous pace helps to improve muscular strength for better kicking technique. Think: leg conditioning exercises are important for maintaining good form when fatigued.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'conditioning'
exercises that build strength, endurance, power and flexibility in different muscle groups.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils often start exercises with too much intensity and quickly recognise that they cannot continue when performing conditioning exercises. Correction: When trying to improve muscular endurance and condition, steady and continuous activity over a longer period of time gives the best results. Start at a pace that is comfortable to begin with and can be maintained as muscles start to fatigue.
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