Instructions
- Balance on hips and tummy-bend legs and arms
- Lift shoulders, hands and feet to the ceiling
‘Hitting turbulence’
- Keep arch body shape whilst rocking – forward and backwards / side-to-side
- Maximum body and limb movement in ‘all directions’ rocking
- Try to keep arms and legs clear of the floor.
Questions
What happens to the body shape when it ‘flips’?
Further Teaching Points
- Ensure the knees are off the floor
- Squeeze the back and bottom to make the arch
Body Conditioning
Improves
- Strength of back
- Flexibility of back
Adapting the activity
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Enable
- Practise Happy Cat chest
- Lift legs only
- Lift arms only
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Challenge
- Hold the position in turbulence
- Flip the position
- Spin on stomach whilst holding position