Week 005
Stunts
Week 005: Stunts
What are stunts?
• Defined as activities in the form of play that
challenges a persons flexibility, agility, balance,
strength, endurance and coordination.
• Stunts are a part of gymnastics which are difficult
and require great skills.
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Week 005: Stunts
Stunts imitating animals
• Inch Worm
• Using the arms as support, move your feet
towards your hands while keeping your knees
straight for approximately 8 counts in a loop back
to the starting position.
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Week 005: Stunts
Stunts imitating animals
• Frog Kick
• Imitating the stature of a frog in a squat with
hands on the floor, push your body backwards
until the buttocks are lifted using your body as
support.
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Week 005: Stunts
Stunts imitating animals
• Duck Walk
• This is done in a partial squat repeated in a
walking motion maintaining that position.
Duck walk. (Image retrieved from:
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Week 005: Stunts
Individual Stunts
Rocking Chair
• This is done from a position hugging your knees
to the chest. Then roll on your back until buttocks Rocking chair. (Image
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• Lying on your stomach, reach and grasp your
ankles and feet to form an arched back with
heads up. Then, rock forward and backward. Prone rocking. (Image
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Week 005: Stunts
Individual Stunts
• Lying Bridge
• Laying upright, knees are raised with arms
straight on your side. With the use of the
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• The body kept straight is lifted upwards with
hands and arms used as support.
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Week 005: Stunts
Individual Stunts
• Ankle hold walk
• As suggested by the name, the ankles are grasped Ankle hold walk.
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foot to the ground. Then raise your leg toward the
ceiling and move it towards the hips before
lowering it and repeating it on the other leg.
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Week 005: Stunts
Dual Stunts
• Wheelbarrow
• One person stands upright as another person lies Wheelbarrow.
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• Get Up Back-to-Back 966 on April 20,
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• Partners with approximately the same height sit
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Week 005: Stunts
Dual Stunts
• Knee Stand
• One person stands in a stride position with feet
slightly apart and knees slightly bent. His partner
the rise to sit on that person’s shoulders from
which he places his feet on his partner’s thighs.
Both maintain balance by either leaning back or
spreading their arms.
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Week 005: Stunts
Group Stunts
• Pyramid
• A human pyramid is formed by standing together Wheelbarrow.
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• Leadership ability 966 on April 20,
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• Agility
• Sense of responsibility
Pyramid of four.
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Week 005: Stunts
Individual Stunts
Standing upside down. (Image retrieved from:
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