Year 9 - Physical education
Parkour and fundamental techniques
Parkour: control, confidence and creativity
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore parkour with a focus on safety, fun and gradual skill development. Pupils will build their confidence and creativity tackling increasingly complex movements to include landing, rolling and precision jumps utilising a range of equipment and apparatus.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform and link together a range of vaults over obstacles showing control and fluidity.
Key Notes
- Move: linking step vaults and lazy vaults smoothly requires technical skill, body control and awareness.
- Move: vaults are performed with a fluid, smooth and continuous motion.
- Think: being confident performing step vaults and lazy vaults is essential before attempting a thief vault.
- Feel: resilience is built through attempting skills you've never tried before and embracing challenges.
- Connect: minimising risks using constructive feedback and teamwork enhances technique.
Vocabulary To Learn
- vault: a technique used to quickly and efficiently clear an obstacle, typically by using the hands to assist the body over it
- thief vault: a dynamic and smooth movement used to pass an obstacle quickly by enabling a smooth exit and carrying speed
- fluid: a style of motion that is smooth, continuous and efficient, without unnecessary pauses or jolts
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils often take-off with the wrong foot when performing the thief vault or they take-off too close to the obstacle.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: linking step vaults and lazy vaults smoothly requires technical skill, body control and awareness. Move: vaults are performed with a fluid, smooth and continuous motion.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'vault'
a technique used to quickly and efficiently clear an obstacle, typically by using the hands to assist the body over it.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils often take-off with the wrong foot when performing the thief vault or they take-off too close to the obstacle. Correction: Work on take-off in isolation, focusing on taking-off with the outside foot and ensuring there is enough space between them and the obstacle to ensure continued flow through the vault.
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