Tumbling and Acrobatics: Timing & Power

Tumbling and Acrobatics:

Timing & Power

Year 8 Circus

Poll

Are you excited to be heading back to school in person?

• No

• Not really...

• Somewhat

• Yes

Recap from last week...​

​Shapes & Tension

Multiple Choice

What is: The body’s ability to contract a muscle ISOMETRICALLY

• Relaxation

• Tension

• Strength

• Tumbling

Multiple Choice

Which of the below is a Tuck shape?

Multiple Choice

Which of the below is a Pike shape?

Multiple Choice

A forward roll uses which shape the most? 

• Tuck

• Pike

• Handstand

• Lunge

​Timing & Power

​Week

Multiple Choice

What do you think TIMING is?

• WHEN you perform an action

• WHAT action you perform

• HOW you perform the action

• WHERE you perform the action

​All of these things need to happen at the right TIME for the next to occur...otherwise the movement pattern stops

Open Ended

What happens if one of the objects is not in the right place at the right time?

​Timing in tumbling

​Timing in tumbling refers to WHEN you use of your muscles to move your body parts

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For example: bending your arms in a forward roll.

​If you didn't bend your arms at the beginning then you would fall onto your back instead of roll over it

The SHAPES you make with your body are important

but WHEN you make them is just as important

For example - this back somersault would NOT actually rotate.

They do not make the right SHAPES

(go through a straight shape)

Because their legs DO NOT straighten/bend at the right TIME they would NOT rotate

​Power in movement

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​Power is the amount of energy transferred into an action

​

​For example how much you push off the ground to jump into the air

Multiple Choice

When you JUMP what is the main body part you are putting power into?

• Arms

• Back

• Feet

• Legs

Multiple Choice

When you do a push up which body part are you putting the power into?

• Legs

• Arms

• Back

• Hands

​If one of these elements doesn't push the other with enough force or POWER the whole system doesnt work!

Open Ended

How do you build power?

​Power is strength

Mmore strength

= more able to produce energy

= more power

​= more able to complete tumbling skills

Open Ended

What is one strength exercise you might do to build POWER in a backward roll? 

_{(HINT: either abs or arms)}

​TIMING AND POWER WORK TOGETHER

​IF YOU DON'T PUT ENOUGH POWER IN

TIMING ALONE WONT MAKE SKILLS HAPPEN

IF YOU PUT POWER IN AT THE WRONG TIME

​THE SKILL WILL BE OFF DIRECTION

​OR

and...

importantly SHAPES and TENSION play a role too.​

If one part isnt in the right SHAPE to hit the next the machine doesnt work

If the string holding the parts together didn't have enough TENSION the parts of the system wouldn't connect!

Tumbling needs:

​- the right amount of power

            ​- at the right time 

                  ​-put into the right shapes

​- with enough tension

Open Ended

EXIT SLIP: What is one thing you've learnt