Teaching fundamental gymnastics skills
Synopsis: Now you can teach or coach gymnastics - even if you don't have a gymnastics background - and ensure that every child learns and succeeds. Teaching FUNdamental Gymnastics Skills is a hands-on guide that provides you with a strong foundation in exploratory gymnastic skills as well as fo...
| Main Author: | Mitchell, Debby, 1953- |
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| Other Authors: | Davis, Barbara, 1953 February 16-, Lopez, Raim, 1960- |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Champaign, IL :
Human Kinetics,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Skill finder
- Gymnastics Basics: Teaching Safely, Teaching Well:
- Safety first
- Teaching effectively
- Exploratory Gymnastics:
- Exploring body awareness
- Exploring body positions
- Exploring balance and flexibility
- Exploring support skills
- Exploring locomotor skill
- Exploring turns
- Exploring twisting rotations
- Exploring sideward tumbling
- Exploration and lead-ups for apparatus
- Exploring the vault approach
- Exploring bars
- Combinations and routines
- Foundational Positions And Movements:
- Body awareness terminology
- Basic body positions
- Foundational body positions
- Foundational positions for legs and arms
- Foundational balances
- Foundational support
- Locomotor skills: alternating foot patterns
- Locomotor skills: landing on two feet
- Locomotor skills: landing on one foot
- Rotational movements: twisting rotations (turns)
- Rotational movements: horizontal circular rotation
- Floor Exercise:
- Balance skills
- Support skills
- Inverted supports
- Locomotor skills: alternating foot patterns
- Locomotor skills: landing on two feet
- Locomotor skills: landing on one foot
- Rotational movements
- Horizontal circular rotations: rolls
- Forward and backward rolls
- Sideward rotations
- Horizontal circular rotations: round-off
- Horizontal circular rotations: back walkovers
- Horizontal circular rotations: front walkovers
- Horizontal circular rotations: handspring
- Combinations and routines
- Balance Beam:
- Hand placements for balance beam
- Approaches to balance beam
- Basic body positions and balances
- Support positions
- Inverted supports: handstands
- Mounts
- Locomotor skills: alternating foot patterns
- Locomotor skills: landing on two feet
- Locomotor skills: landing on one foot
- Dismounts
- Longitudinal rotations: turns
- Sideward rotations: cartwheel
- Horizontal circular movements
- Springboard And Vault:
- Vault approach and springboard skills
- Vault lead-up skills on floor and folded mats
- Handspring vault lead-ups
- Vault technique
- Vaults
- Bars:
- Grip positions
- Hangs from bars
- Inverted hangs
- Supports
- Mounts
- Suspended and swinging skills
- Dismounts
- Rotational movements
- About the authors
- About the illustrator.