PE 1 week 4

• Locomotor movement


  The act or power of moving from place to place
• Locomotor movement

  • Usually involves moving around the wider, available area, with the body not anchored and with complete transfer of weight
• Types of locomotor movement

  • Walking
  • Running
  • Hopping
  • Leaping
  • Skipping
  • Jumping
  • Sliding
  • Galloping
• Walking


  Shifting one's weight from one foot to the other
• Running


  Moving with longer strides and in faster speed than walking
• Hopping


  Springing on one foot and landing on the same foot
• Skipping


  Done with a step and a hop using the same foot
• Jumping


  Springing on one foot or both feet and landing on both feet. (On landing always bend knees slightly)
• Leaping


  Springing on one foot and landing on the other foot (wide stride)
• Sliding


  Gliding on the floor, sideward or forward using the right and left foot alternately
• Galloping


  Stepping on one foot and cutting the other, either sideward or forward
• Non-locomotor or axial movement


  Done in place
• Types of non-locomotor or axial movement

  • Bending
  • Stretching
  • Swaying
  • Swinging
  • Twisting
  • Lifting
  • Rotating
• Bending


  Moving the muscles around a joint where two body parts meet
• Stretching


  Straightening or extending any part of the body from the joints
• Lifting


  Elevating a part of the body, usually for the arms and legs
• Rotating


  Moving a part of the body around an axis
• Twisting


  Moving a part of the body around a long axis, usually for the head and body
• Swinging


  A pendular movement below an axis
• Swaying

  A pendular movement above an axis