Modern Educational Gymnastics
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Modern Educational Gymnastics provides a guide in gymnastics based on Rudolf Laban’s analysis of movement. This book sets out a discipline and standard, demanding perseverance, grit, and determination in individual ways of moving that provides every individual with an opportunity to achieve not only possibilities in movement and physical prowess, but ideas as well. The topics covered include weight transference; fundamental body action of bending, stretching, turning, and twisting; awareness of the body; way or how a person moves; time, space, and flow factors; use of space; apparatus work; and working with other people. Brief discussions on forming a lesson, achieving good poise, and use of observation to the teacher and students are also deliberated in this text. This publication is intended for gymnastics teachers, but is also useful to students or individuals hoping to acquire knowledge on the fundamentals and basic principles of gymnastics.
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Introduction
The Human Being
The Need for Movement
The Value of Gymnastics
II. Weight Transference : Gesture — Adjustment of the Body Weight in "on" and "off-balanced" Movement (1) Using Adjacent Parts of the Body
The Effort Content
Development of Rolling
Examples
III. Weight Transference : (2) Using Non-adjacent Parts of the Body
Adjustment of the Body Weight
The Effort Content
Ways of Developing
Examples
IV. Weight Transference : (3) Using Non-adjacent Parts of the Body Involving Flight
The Five Basic Jumps
Other Possibilities
Examples
V. The Fundamental Body Action of Bending and Stretching
Definition
Bending and Stretching of the Spine
The Legs
Hip, Knee, Ankle and Foot Joints
The Arms
The Effort Content
The Use of Space
VI. The Fundamental Body Action of Turning and Twisting
Definition
Examples
The Effort Content
VII. Awareness of the Body
Awareness of Different Parts of the Body
Awareness of the Relationship of Parts as in Meeting and Parting
Importance of a Part of the Body
Awareness of a Part Leading
Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Use of the Body
Simultaneous and Successive Movement
VIII. The Way (or How) a Person Moves — Effort Content
How a Person Moves
The Effort Content of Movement
The Weight Factor
Firmness and Fine Touch
Weight Rhythms
Practical Application
IX. The Time Factor
Suddenness and Sustainment
Interplay of Time
Practical Application
Resilience of Movement
Sequence of Movement
X. The Space and Flow Factors
The Space Factor
Flexibility and Directness
The Flow Factor
Bound and Free Flow
XI. The Use of Space
Personal Space
General Space
Directions in Space
Levels of Space
Central and Peripheral Use of Space
Extension in Space
Planes of Movement
Body Shape
XII. Apparatus Work
Climax to the Lesson
Value of Apparatus Work
Sequence of Movement or Vault
The Preparation or Approach
Contact with the Apparatus
Types of Apparatus, Action Tasks, Movement Tasks
The Recovery
Ways of Using the Apparatus
Organization of the Apparatus
Handling and Care of the Apparatus
VIII. Working with Other People
Without Physical Contact
With Physical Contact But No Weight Nearing
Involving Weight Bearing
In Relationship to Apparatus
XIV. The Lesson
The Form of a Lesson
The Theme of a Lesson and Characteristics of the Main Age Groups
The Development of a Sequence
Exploration, Selection and Skill of Performance
Taking over Classes Whose Previous Training Has Been of a Formal Nature
Presentation of the Work and Contact with Classes
XV. Observation
Value
Mental Attitude
What is Involved When Observing
The Use of Observation to the Teacher and to the Girls
XVI Poise
Good Poise
Causes of Poor Poise
Common Postural Weaknesses
Weak Feet, Knock-knees, Poking Head and Round Shoulders, Hollow Back, Scoliosis and a General Lack of Tension
Product details
- No. of pages: 148
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Pergamon 1965
- Published: January 1, 1965
- Imprint: Pergamon
- eBook ISBN: 9781483137384