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Group 6 - Locomotor Skills

Locomotor skills are physical actions that propel an individual from one place to another, such as crawling, creeping, jumping, landing, throwing, and linear, lateral, and non-linear movements. Crawling involves belly on the floor while creeping is on hands and knees with stomach up. Proper jumping and landing techniques help reduce injury while also improving ability. Throwing involves propelling objects through the air using arm and hand movements. Linear movement is in a straight line while lateral involves side-to-side movement. Locomotor skills are fundamental movement patterns used in daily life, exercise and sports.

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Group 6 - Locomotor Skills

Locomotor skills are physical actions that propel an individual from one place to another, such as crawling, creeping, jumping, landing, throwing, and linear, lateral, and non-linear movements. Crawling involves belly on the floor while creeping is on hands and knees with stomach up. Proper jumping and landing techniques help reduce injury while also improving ability. Throwing involves propelling objects through the air using arm and hand movements. Linear movement is in a straight line while lateral involves side-to-side movement. Locomotor skills are fundamental movement patterns used in daily life, exercise and sports.

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Locomotor Skills

Locomotor skills

A physical action that propels an individual from one place to another. This may
mean moving forward, backward, or even upwards using certain skills.
Crawl and Creep

Crawling is defined as moving forward with belly on the floor


pulling with arms and pushing with legs

Creeping is defined as moving on hands and knees with stomach


up, in quadruped.
Landing and Jumping
Proper jumping and landing techniques will help reduce the risk of injury and improve jumping ability. The muscles of
the hips (gluteal), knees (quadriceps and hamstrings) and ankles (calves) that improve the height of the jump are just as
important when landing from a jump.

What are the specific benefits?

• Stimulates your metabolism.


• Increases oxygen capacity.
• Improves your sense of balance.
• Increases oxygen circulation to tissues.
• Improves the circulation of the lymph through the lymph
glands.
• Strengthens the heart (Cardiovascular health)
• Increases energy and sense of vitality.
Throwing
propel (something) with force through the air by a
movement of the arm and hand.

Javelin throw - athletics (track-and-field) sport of


throwing a spear for distance

Discus throw - sport in athletics (track and field) in


which a disk-shaped object, known as a discus, is
thrown for distance.
Shot put - Shot put is a track-and-field event in which athletes try to
throw a heavy ball as far as they can. Competitors in shot put can be
called shot-putters. In shot put, competitors have to put, or throw from
the shoulder, a weighted ball called a shot.

Hammer throw - sport in athletics (track and field) in which a hammer


is hurled for distance, using two hands within a throwing circle.

Weight throw - sport of throwing a weight for distance or height.


Linear movements
It simply means movement in a straight line. A majority of daily movement is performed in a
linear plane (going forward or backward). Walking and jogging are typically linear movements.
An example of linear movement in sport is a ball moving in a straight line or when an athlete
holds a particular body position as they move in a straight line.

Hop - In order to hop, you have to leap off the ground with your body in the air. This can be done with one or
both legs. Hops are often much smaller than jumps, and the landing should be quiet.

Skip - Skip means to move forward in a light, playful way by stepping from one foot to the other with a hop
or bounce. You must step forward with one foot and then hop on that same leg. What’s important is that you
need to move yourself forward as you hop. All you need to do is repeat this movement with your other leg.
Whenever one foot is in the air, you should hop forward onto your other foot.
Leap - The leap is a locomotor movement characterized by a take-off on one foot, a long
flight phase, and a landing on the opposite foot. This is very similar to a gallop and a skip.

Bound - Bounding is to move quickly with large jumping movements. An exercise used to
develop power output in the lower body.

Jog - Is a form of running at a slow pace. It can also be done at a leisurely pace that is
only a little faster than walking. It’s usually performed over long distances.

Run - Running is the more intense version of jogging. It requires more speed and body
tolerance as it can tire the person quickly. This is one of the fastest activities that people
can perform with their feet.
Lateral movements

Lateral movement means relating to the sides of something or moving in a


sideways direction.
Slide - a movement where the lead foot takes one step to the side, followed by the other
foot stepping next to it closely, without it crossing over the leading foot. Both feet are
kept close to the ground with the lead foot always on the side of the direction of travel.

Crossover - a point or place of crossing from one side to the other.

Grapevine - a dance figure in partner dancing that shares a common appearance, with
some variation, in ballroom, club, and folk dances. It includes side steps and steps across
the support foot.
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