Instructions
- Sit on floor in tuck shape
- Roll/rock backwards onto shoulders
- Press arms into floor
- Once balanced on shoulders in tuck shape, extend legs vertically until body and legs are in a straight line
- Show good body tension with toes pointed
- Hold position
- Tuck legs back into chest
- Roll/rock back until sitting in tuck shape
Further Teaching Points
- Angry Cat position throughout
- Move from tuck through puck, through dish into straight and return through dish, puck to tuck
Body Conditioning
Improves
- Posture
- Stomach strength
- Flexibility
Adapting the activity
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Enable
- Practise rocking
- Practise Angry Cat
- Practise tuck, puck, dish and straight shapes
- Practise Drawbridges
- Practise Front support
- Use arms to support back
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Challenge
- Hold different positions/shapes while in shoulder stand – for example, pike, straddle pike, dish etc.
- Roll back down from shoulder stand to standing up
- Roll out over one shoulder onto one knee