Log Roll

As we develop

Skill
Gymnastics
Gymnastics

Instructions

  • Lie on your back, with your arms above your head
  • Roll sideways from your back to your tummy and over again to your back

Questions

Can you start and finish in a Saucer shape?

Further Teaching Points

  • Legs should be straight and together, feet stretched
  • Try to keep body straight all the way through the roll

Body Conditioning

Improves

  • Posture
  • Strength of stomach and back

Adapting the activity

  • Enable

    • Practise Trap the Mouse
    • Lie on back and move from straight to Saucer to straight
    • Lie on tummy and move from straight to Skydiver to straight
    • Use hands to assist with roll
  • Challenge

    • Roll and finish in a Saucer or Dish shape
    • Roll and finish in a Skydiver or an Arch shape
    • Roll using Dish and Arch shapes

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Log Rolling