Big Question:

How can we use our partner's body weight and strength to create amazing balances that would be impossible alone?

Key Objectives:

• • To understand and demonstrate the concept of counter balance in gymnastics
• • To create excellent, interesting counter balances with a partner using different levels and connection points

Big Question:

How can we apply our counter balance skills to apparatus and create fluid, excellent movements?

Key Objectives:

• • To transfer counter balance skills from floor work onto gymnastics apparatus
• • To explore ways to move out of counter balances and off apparatus with control and flow

Big Question:

How can we create flowing gymnastic sequences that demonstrate excellent counter balance techniques?

Key Objectives:

• • Apply excellent gymnastics principles to developing counter balance sequences
• • Create smooth transitions between balances and travelling movements

Big Question:

How can we use counter tension to create excellent and interesting gymnastic balances with our partners?

Key Objectives:

• • To understand and apply the concept of counter tension in paired gymnastics balances
• • To create interesting counter tension balances using different levels and connection points

Big Question:

How can we create flowing gymnastics sequences that demonstrate excellent counter balance and counter tension techniques?

Key Objectives:

• • Apply excellent gymnastics principles to complete counter balance and counter tension sequences
• • Demonstrate understanding of flow and transition between different apparatus and balance types

Big Question:

How can we demonstrate mastery of counter balance and counter tension through confident performance?

Key Objectives:

• • To perform completed sequences with excellent technique and flow
• • To demonstrate counter balance and counter tension skills confidently