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    The document discusses key concepts in educational gymnastics including various movements, exercises, benefits, safety practices, and support levels. Some of the core movements and exercises covered are travelling skills like jumping, balancing, rolling, and locomotion. Examples of physical activities taught in gymnastics include body shapes, balancing, forward and back rolls, cartwheels, and handstands. The benefits of gymnastics include improved physical fitness, health, posture, coordination, fun and skills for other sports. Safety practices while doing gymnastics include warming up, practicing on soft surfaces, training with experienced teachers, using safety gear, nutrition, rest and stopping if injured. The document also outlines basic movement exercises, weight bearing exercises,

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    Movement Concepts in Educational Gymnastics

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    CHAPTER 4

    MOVEMENT CONCEPTS IN EDUCATIONAL GYMNASTICS

    Gymnastics as forms exercises involving physical agility 'ability to do something quickly' and body
    coordination, flexibility.

    Movements in gymnastics

    Travelling

    Jumping and landing

    Balancing

    Transference of weight

    Locomotion: walking, jogging and running

    Rolling

    Body shapes

    Space awareness

    Examples of physical exercises/ activities in educational gymnastics

    Body shapes

    Balancing

    Forward roll

    Back roll

    Cart wheel

    Head stand

    Hand stand, among others

    Benefits of gymnastics to an individual

    Physical fitness of the body

    Improved health

    Good body posture

    Appropriate coordination of the body


    For fun and enjoyment

    Equip with basic skills for performing other sports and games

    Spotter

    Is a person who supports the other to do the gymnastic activity and also prevent injury.

    Significance/ importance of a spotter

    Helps in reducing fear of getting injury

    Gaining confidence and encouragement as he/ she performs the task

    Caring of your health and safety in gymnastics

    Before you practice gymnastics or perform a routine, spend at least 5 minutes warming up with some
    light exercises and stretching

    Practice on soft floors(for example a mattress, a sack of dry grass and others)

    Work with an experienced teacher to make sure your technique is correct

    Follow gym safety rules carefully, common safety rules include: limiting the use of equipment to one
    person at a time, not wearing jewelry or other items that might get stuck on the equipment, practising
    good jumping technique when using foam pits for example while jumping only onto your feet, back, or
    bottom, and never diving head first or landing on your knees, foam pits are used to cushion landings or
    any falls of a gymnast, always train with a partner or teacher

    Use appropriate safety gears

    Eat nutritious meals and stay hydrated

    Get plenty of good quality sleep

    If you get injured or feel pain while doing gymnastics, stop what you are doing right away.

    Performance of basic movement

    Basic movement exercises include

    i) locomotion: walking, jogging and running

    These are activities that you always engage in. However, they can be done with some technique like.

    Walking

    Running
    Leap

    ii) weight bearing exercises

    Here you carry one another or carry some weights. These are activities which involve carrying of weight.
    They include.

    Arm resistance

    Push up

    Dumbbell chest press

    Lateral raises

    iii) transference of weight exercises

    Weight can be transferred by.

    Hopping

    Jumping (triple jump, high jump and long jump)

    Throwing object

    iv) Body shapes

    Human body is capable of making a variety of shapes.

    A body shape is an extension of the whole body or part of it in various directions, body shapes therefore
    refer to the position of the body in space

    The size of the space available for exercise is what creates the need to change the body shape

    Examples of body shapes

    Stretched body shape

    Wide body shape

    Curled body shape

    Narrow body shape

    Twisted body shape

    Crab balance

    Shoulder stand
    Tuck shape

    Pike - sitting position

    Hollow shape

    V - shaped balance

    v) Floor and air patterns

    They include

    Cart wheel walk

    Round off

    support levels and figures in gymnastics

    These refer to the status of gymnasts according to how they are developed and what they can
    do.Namely

    Front support

    Back support

    Side support

    Gymnastics levels
    Gymnastic level 1

    Cart wheel

    Gymnastic level two

    Hand stand

    Backward roll

    Gymnastic level three

    Single leg squat

    Hand stand to a bridge kick over

    Backward roll to a push up position

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