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Gymnastics: Vaulting. Repulsion and Flight

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As previous exercise.

From Long Sit rock back to inverted pike shape but with hands placed by the ears with fingers pointing to the shoulders.

Keeping legs extended sweep them vigorously upward and simultaneously push on hands.

Exit with feet on the mat but with hips held high.

COACHING POINTS

This exercise is to aid flight off the box during a Head Spring or Bent Arm Overswing.

Ensure that the push and leg throw is an explosive movement.

Legs must be kept extended.

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Vaulting. Repulsion and Flight:

Lie on mat with knees bent and hands placed by ears with fingers pointing at shoulders.

Raise hips but keep shoulders and feet in the same position.

Thrust on arms so that the shoulders slide on the mats and hips move to ankles.

Key 3 Vault Repulsions

key 0 warm-up:

Place a number of markers / cones around the hall.

Ask the children to run around the hall running in and out of each other, without bumping into each other.

Get children to move towards the teacher without touching them. Ask children to find a marker and sit down by it.

key 0 warm-up

key 0 Game/Apparatus:

Discuss forwards, backwards and sideways movements.

Demo the different movements.

Walk backwards slowly, making sure that the children look their shoulders as they do it. The next stage is for the children to walk sideways.

Ask the children for other ways to move around the floor on their feet.

key 0 Game/Apparatus

Benches Game:

Take out the apparatus.

Travel in and out of the apparatus in different ways e.g in any way the children choose feet, hands, crawl etc. Its is important to keep the children moving all the time. When the apparatus is clear get the children to slide underneath it and step over the top.

key 0 Game/Apparatus

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