Gymnastics for today

Today, me and the rest of my class had participated in our first lesson of Gymnastics with Coach Zay! She had teached us that gymnastics is mainly based off of your balance skills and flexibility. Before we got taught some basic strategies she had teached us how to balance using one leg and how you can improve your balancing skills using your arms. After we had practiced balancing she had made us move onto “Floor Work”... Some of the movements were named Tuck Sit, Happy Cat, Angry Cat, Straddle, L Sit etc. Most of these were easy but in some of them you have to try and balance yourself with your hands like lifting yourself up! Next we played a game that Involves using your feet! We didn’t get told what it was named but it was quite fun to play. You had to pass the ball from one to another using ONLY your feet and if it dropped then you would have to redo it until you had successfully completed passing it onto the next person. In that game I had learnt that it was important to use your feet for different motions. After we had played the game the teacher asked us if we should move onto trying to do handstands and we all agreed. She had told us if we knew how to do one and we had all said yes and no...We had all tried to do handstands and some of us had achieved doing it when some of us didn’t. Either way it was still fun. After the session I had felt tired after doing all of that but in the end it was an amazing experience and very enjoyable to do.