Anne+Julie+M



Gymnastics:
So far this unit, everything has gone quite smoothly. We have worked a lot, but there is a slight need for more creativity. But I worked together with the girls and a bit at home so that we were able to make a sequence before the due date. The problem is that we have tried a lot out, and some things we have some problems with due to that we do not all have the same types of skills. Still we have found something that works for us.  First all of us are going to do a forward roll in turns with 5 sec in between; the second thing we are going to do then is that seiya and I are going to roll half way backwards in a neck stand with our legs up and do the same movements with our legs just the opposite ways, while Marta will be standing on one leg when in the end Seiya and I will take a backward roll and stand up; Then Seiya and Marta are going to stand beside each other to the side and hold one arm of each other and drag it their own way so that they will have the strength to hold me when I take a handstand and lean on them with my legs. Then Seiya and Marta will grab both of each others arms and lean the opposite way to show counter balance while I make a bridge. After that Marta and I will sit in a line and Seiya will jump over us. Out of that move Seiya will take a normal cartwheel, while I will do an arab over Marta that will be lying on the floor. Then after that I will do a handstand while Marta and Seiya will do the bridges and they will go out of the bridge positions and do the soldier roll while I will do the teddy bear roll. And then finally we of course have to make a pyramid.

Evaluation: Our last unit was making a warm up to a specific are of sports. It wasn't very difficult, since we have already learned a lot about how to warm up in different fields of sports. My group chose to do dance because that is what we know most about when it comes to sports. In dance the warm up does not have to be anything in particular as long as you use your whole body, but it is the most important part of the training. In order to be able to dance properly without destroying any of the muscles in the body it is essential to warm up. A good and long warm up, which does not have to be something very physically tiring as long as you move the whole body. It was very educational to learn more about how to warm up for different types of sports and I liked the unit. The only thing I would have changed is maybe that we wouldn't have to do a the same types of warm up a whole lesson. Maybe you could change it a bit, that it would become a written assessment instead, and then the different teams would try one of the other teams warm up and assess it. Or something like that, I don't know.

Cycling Unit: Our cycling video is now out on Youtube on this link:

http://youtu.be/FOSxjppgfK8

My group Team Girls just performed our cycling show and I was very happy with the result. I was surprised that everything went so good, and it was even better on the final show. We did some extra moves just before we were going to perform. In order to make it a bit easier to do our poses with the helmet we swung with it first and then put in on our head and posed. It helped our performance though we kind of messed it up a bit, but it was ok. Overall our timing and coordination went much better in the end. From the time we filmed the show the first time a lot of the moves have been developed into something better. The weather was wonderful and it made us much more engaged, and I was confident with what I was going to do, so I wasn't afraid. All in all I'm very happy with the result, and I didn't think we could have done it better with the skills we have with biking. The team worked very well, and we all enjoyed being together and trying out something new. Since we were only girls we chose to make that visible and we did some really girly moves that reflected us.

Acrobatics: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In this unit I'm in a group with Seiya and Marta. We have the smallest group, which has been quite challenging. It has been difficult to find different moves that use all the members of the group at the same time, and in addition to that, we have a very different abilities. Despite this we have come up with a lot of various different moves that have worked for us. Unfortunately, we will have to work a lot in order to finish the sequence, since we haven't gotten very far with it yet. Therefore I will make sure that I use some of my own time to plan, so that we can practice next lesson.