Year 11 - Physical education
Sparring and review
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 perform self-defence moves and spar within a controlled setting showing excellent footwork and timing.
Key Notes
- Move: performing self-defence moves requires the ability to react quickly, identify a threat and respond immediately.
- Move: good sparring technique requires dynamic movements, fast feet and agility to evade opponents safely.
- Think: in self-defence, you can defend yourself proportionately to what is being done to you.
- Feel: sparring helps develop resilience under pressure when faced with an opponent.
- Connect: sparring with others requires empathy, communication, cooperation and mutual respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- self-defence: a legal justification for using reasonable, necessary and proportionate force to protect yourself or others from imminent harm
- sparring: a controlled and supervised sport that allows martial artists to apply techniques in real time against resisting partners
- technique: a deliberate, skillful movement or method designed to achieve a specific outcome in combat or self-defence
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that self-defence is just like fighting.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing self-defence moves requires the ability to react quickly, identify a threat and respond immediately. Move: good sparring technique requires dynamic movements, fast feet and agility to evade opponents safely.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'self-defence'
a legal justification for using reasonable, necessary and proportionate force to protect yourself or others from imminent harm.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that self-defence is just like fighting. Correction: Self-defence focuses on escape and de-escalation. It is about avoiding harm and getting away safely.
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