Instructions
- Start sitting on the floor in a Tuck Shape
- Hold onto legs behind knees
- Feet shoulder-width apart
- Holding Angry Cat back
- Slowly drop onto side
- Roll across back
- Return to sitting in Tuck Shape
Questions
Which Body Schooling actions help you to perform this roll?
Further Teaching Points
- To drop slowly onto side by transferring weight
- Keep holding onto back of knees throughout the action
- Keep Angry Cat back throughout the action
- To return to sitting Tuck Shape, push on elbow on the floor and pull on opposite leg
- Encourage circling type action
Body Conditioning
Improves
- Core stability and flexibility
Adapting the activity
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Enable
- Practise Egg Roll
- Practise Cat Roll
- Decide which way you want to roll; use the arm on that side to reach under knees to initiate roll, similar to Cat Roll
- Practise Tuck and Cup shapes
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Challenge
- Join several Sumo Rolls together
- Can you complete exactly a half turn every roll?
- Can you straighten your legs and perform roll in Straddle Pike position – a Teddy Bear Roll?