LSC: Movement Concepts in Educational Gymnastics Senior One

Movement Concepts in Educational Gymnastics

Locomotion: walking, jogging and running

These are activities that you always engage in. However, they can be done with some technique as shown in the Fig. 4.1 and 4.2 below. Ensure that you move your arms too.

Weight Bearing

Here you can carry one another or carry some weights. These are activities which involve carrying of weight. You can try out as many as possible as illustrated below.

Transference of Weight

Weight can be transferred by hopping, jumping, or even throwing objects. You can try as many as possible. Study the illustrations below.

Body Shapes

The human body is capable of making a variety of shapes; for example, stretched shapes, curled shapes, wide shapes, narrow shapes, round shapes and many others.

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.

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

i) Try out the body shapes below

The stretched body shape can be done by freely extending the body limbs in different directions. As shown in the diagram above, you can make a star shape, T-shape and many others.

ii) Think about more body shape and demonstrate them in groups to the whole glass.