(Ages 5 – 6)
Skill: WARM UPS
Drill: Ultimate Core Exercise: Forward Crab Crawls Down the Mat
Equipment needed: None
Instructors needed: Several to monitor
Description: The students will build their core strength by holding their body off the ground using their palms and their feet, while walking down the mat.
Step 1
  • Have your students sit on one end of the mat and raise their body off the ground with the palms of their hands and their feet as if they were a table.
Step 2 -Explain the rules:
  • When I say, “go” you will walk down the mat keeping your bottom off the ground at all times.
  • Try to keep your body parallel to the ground.
  • You will do this down the mat.
Step 3
  • While walkingdown the mat, keep you fingers pointing towards your toes.
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