Ships and Bridges

As we progress

Activity
Gymnastics
Gymnastics

Instructions

Bridges

  • Place your hands and feet on the floor
  • Keep your bottom high and your feet together
  • Hold the position for the ship to move under

Ships

  • Crawl like a soldier under the bridge

Questions

How high and still can you make your bridge?

Further Teaching Points

  • Pupils should try to keep the Angry Cat shape
  • Keep feet together
  • Hands flat on the floor, arms straight but shoulder-width apart

Body Conditioning

Improves

  • Strength of stomach
  • Upper body
  • Arms

Adapting the activity

  • Enable

    • Make the bridge standing up (a ‘Star’ Shape)
    • Make a bridge on hands and knees
    • Make bridge with legs wide and/or slightly bent
  • Challenge

    • Make a bridge as high as you can
    • Lift one leg off to make the bridge
    • Make a bridge facing the ceiling

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