Ask your students to bring to class photographs of athletes, dancers and gymnasts in full flight and encourage them to emulate these in-air positions.
Your students can make different body shapes in the air by jumping off a springboard onto a crash pad, or landing two-footed on a mat.
You can explain the similarities between the pictured body shapes and gymnastics positions like the pike, straddle and squat. ? Pat Aitken
References:
1. Lloyd Readhead, Gymnastics: Skills - Techniques - Training, Crowood Press, 2011.
2. Peter H. Werner (Ped), Teaching Children Gymnastics: Becoming a Master Teacher, Human Kinetics Publishers, 1994.
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